Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani are rising as the highest two candidates on this summer time’s Democratic mayoral major — and it’s Cuomo’s race to lose, in response to three polls launched this week.
The newest ballot, dropped late Wednesday and performed by Emerson Faculty, PIX11 and The Hill, discovered 38% of registered Democrats in New York Metropolis would vote within the June 24 major for Cuomo, who has solid himself as a political reasonable since launching his mayoral bid on March 1.
The runner-up within the polls to Cuomo — who resigned as governor in 2021 amid sexual misconduct accusations he denies — is Mamdani, a democratic socialist, who clinched 10% within the Emerson/PIX11/The Hill survey.
Coming in third was the incumbent, Mayor Adams, with 8%.
Adams’ reelection bid has been upended by his federal corruption indictment, surrounding scandals and traditionally low approval scores. As a rising variety of distinguished 2021 marketing campaign supporters have defected to rally behind Cuomo, Adams isn’t ruling out working as an impartial in November’s basic mayoral election along with the Democratic major.
“Cuomo has emerged as the top candidate in the race, with no clear alternative emerging among Democratic voters,” mentioned Spencer Kimball, Emerson Faculty Polling’s govt director.
The Emerson/PIX11/The Hill ballot got here after Knowledge for Progress, a left-leaning suppose tank, earlier within the day dropped one other survey exhibiting the same development, with Cuomo within the lead at 39% help and Mamdani within the No. 2 slot at 15%. The opposite candidates within the race, together with Adams, didn’t rise above single digits within the Knowledge for Progress evaluation.
That, in flip, got here after Honan Technique Group launched one other mayoral race ballot Tuesday that discovered Cuomo topping the sphere with 41% help, and Mamdani once more the runner-up at 18%.
All three polls reported that greater than 15% of the New Yorkers quizzed take into account themselves “undecided,” indicating a lot may nonetheless change as the first looms lower than three months away.
Whereas the Emerson survey discovered Adams within the No. 3 slot, the Honan Technique and Knowledge for Progress polls projected Comptroller Brad Lander because the third place candidate, locking in 8% in each.
The projections of Cuomo and Mamdani as front-runners come whilst they’re positioning themselves on the diametrically reverse ends of the Democratic Get together spectrum.
A socialist, Mamdani has mentioned he would as mayor freeze rents on all stabilized tenants within the metropolis, make bus service free and drastically enhance funding for common childcare. Cuomo, a reasonable, has centered his marketing campaign round a pledge to deliver the town again from the brink of what he has portrayed as a public security “crisis,” pledging to rent extra cops and concentrate on quality-of-life points.
Notably, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, whose late entry into the mayoral race this month garnered a lot buzz from the political class, isn’t registering a lot help within the newest polls. Within the Emerson and Honan Technique surveys, Speaker Adams netted simply 4% help, whereas Knowledge for Progress gave her 5%.
