In resisting calls

In resisting calls to push out embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has insisted that it’s up to the voters.

Well, the voters have spoken, and they clearly want him out. In fact, they have expressed that preference by a rather historic margin.

A Newsday/Siena College poll finds that 78 percent of voters in Santos’s congressional district want him to resign.

This builds on a previous Siena poll last week which showed 59 percent of voters statewide* *calling for the resignation of the freshman congressman, whose myriad lies and legal liabilities have loomed over his extremely young tenure. (Even that poll suggested the numbers might be higher in his Long Island-based district; 71 percent in the New York City suburbs called for him to resign.)