{"id":9353,"date":"2020-10-12T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/voters-views-of-mcconnell-and-schumer-are-negative-and-deeply-divided-by-partisanship\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:06","slug":"voters-views-of-mcconnell-and-schumer-are-negative-and-deeply-divided-by-partisanship","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/10\/12\/voters-views-of-mcconnell-and-schumer-are-negative-and-deeply-divided-by-partisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters\u2019 views of McConnell and Schumer are negative and deeply divided by partisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer outside the U.S. Capitol on July 29, 2020. (Brendan Smialowski-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the Senate holds confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump\u2019s pick for the Supreme Court, voters express more negative than positive views of the chamber\u2019s top leaders, Republican Mitch McConnell and Democrat Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a new survey, fewer than a quarter of registered voters express \u201cwarm\u201d or positive views of McConnell, the Senate majority leader. When asked to rate the two senators on a \u201cfeeling thermometer\u201d \u2013 in which 100 represents the warmest rating and 0 the coldest \u2013 23% of voters say they feel very or somewhat warmly toward McConnell. Just 13% give him a very<\/em> warm rating of 76 or more on the scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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