Cuomo leads NYC mayoral race in new poll, holds 3:1 edge over Adams

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who has yet to denote his intentions — has a beardown pb among registered voters successful the New York City mayoral race, according to a caller canvass retired Friday.

Cuomo captured 33% of the ballot in the poll by Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill. Mayor Adams trailed with 10% support.

They were followed by erstwhile Comptroller Scott Stringer astatine 8%, existent Comptroller Brad Lander and State Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos each astatine 6%. Twenty-five percent of voters were undecided.

Adams is facing a rocky way to reelection. He’s expected to caput to proceedings successful April connected national corruption charges and has deed historically debased support ratings. Cuomo, who resigned amid intersexual harassment allegations successful 2021, has go an aboriginal frontrunner successful the race, contempt not really stepping successful yet.

Without Cuomo successful the race, Adams fared amended astatine 16%, starring a wide filed of challengers. In that scenario, Stringer and Ramos received 12%, Lander got 7% of the ballot and Myrie got 4%, according to the poll. The canvass surveyed 1,000 registered voters betwixt Feb. 3-5; it has a borderline of mistake of positive oregon minus 3 points.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to attest earlier the Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Pandemic successful the Rayburn House Office Building astatine the U.S. Capitol connected September 10, 2024 successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Petitioning for June’s Democratic mayoral superior begins connected Feb. 25. Given that timeline, sources person said Cuomo, should helium run, is apt to leap into the contention by the extremity of February successful bid to springiness himself clip for the resource-intensive petitioning process.

“It’s each remains premature, but Andrew Cuomo volition ever beryllium a Queens lad who loves New York and volition ever assistance immoderate mode helium tin to person it succeed,” Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, said.

Spokespeople for Adams did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

Without Cuomo arsenic competition, Adams leads among Black voters — a key constituency for the mayor —  at 23%. However, with Cuomo connected the ballot, helium loses that advantage: In that simulation, the canvass shows Cuomo receives 35% of Black voters and Adams gets conscionable 13%.

On Friday morning, Adams appeared astatine a Black History Month gathering hosted by the African-American Clergy and Elected Officials organization. Cuomo, portion not successful attendance, was connected the minds of immoderate of the speakers astatine the event.

Mayor Eric Adams Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 successful Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Daily News/Pool)

Dee Bailey, the group’s main of operations and an influential subordinate successful Black metropolis politics, introduced Adams by asking the assemblage who they would ballot for if Cuomo hops into the mayoral primary.

“I’mma ballot for my politician of the City of New York, truthful I’m telling everybody,” Bailey said to applause. “I privation you to cognize that I salute and enactment my mayor, Eric Adams.”

According to the poll, Adams’ favorability rating is astatine 27%, with 58% of voters replying they person an unfavorable presumption of the mayor.  Cuomo has a 47% favorable standing and 37% unfavorable.

President Trump was besides recovered to person a precocious favorability standing astatine 40%. Trump won 44% of New York City voters successful the November election.

“Cuomo’s precocious sanction designation gives him an aboriginal advantage, but the contention is fluid with six months to go,”  Spencer Kimball, enforcement manager of Emerson College Polling, said.

The canvass besides recovered that 34% of voters powerfully reason the Department of Justice dropping the lawsuit against Adams and 42% powerfully reason ICE being allowed into schools and churches. Voters were divided connected whether wide deportations of undocumented immigrants was bully oregon atrocious for the city.