Hmmmm?
Any surprise with this?
You should not be if you follow New York Politics….
New York state Attorney General Tish James has been all over the media investigation people including Donald Trump AND her Governor Cuomo…
She has no negative media…
A Black women doing a job for the people…
This is from a early poll…
It does not mean that it’s results are real world…
But it IS a warning shot at Andrew Cuomo and New York Democratic leaders…
Republican early guys are miles behind the Democrats….
(Andrew Giuliani was not in the poll)
New York state Attorney General Tish James did better than Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a hypothetical gubernatorial matchup against an unnamed Republican opponent, according to a new survey released by the Siena College Research Institute on Monday.
The poll also showed that the embattled governor’s own favorability ratings have stabilized after several months of decline. He has become enmeshed in several scandals, leading James to open an investigation while the state Assembly considers articles of impeachment.
Turning to next year’s gubernatorial election, voters said they’d prefer James over an unnamed Republican by a margin of 46-29. That’s a 17-point lead.
They’d prefer Cuomo over an unnamed Republican by a margin of 48-38. That’s a 10-point lead.
But it would be a stretch to say that those numbers clearly indicate that James, who is investigating the myriad allegations against Cuomo and has made no recent suggestions about her future ambitions, would be a favorite in a hypothetical primary.
While Siena didn’t ask about a head-to-head matchup, it did ask whether voters want Cuomo to win a fourth term, and Democrats backed that idea by a margin of 56-33. And much of James’ advantage in the question about running against unnamed Republicans can be attributed to the fact that more Republicans and independents said they don’t know who she is and declined to answer.
But much of Cuomo’s strength throughout his tenure has been been his aura of inevitability. One might have to go back to 2002 to find a poll where anybody has performed as well as he in an election-related question. So the new Siena result could dent that aura at a time when he’s facing more political peril than ever before.
Cuomo’s broader numbers: A total of 44 percent of respondents say they view Cuomo favorably, while 48 percent say they view him unfavorably. That’s an improvement from the 40-52 he hit in April….
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James was viewed favorably by a margin of 38-20. That’s pretty consistent with where she has been — she was at 39-17, 40-14, and 36-17 in other recent Siena polls — though the 20 percent who viewed her unfavorably was the highest such number she’s ever received…
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The Republican gubernatorial candidates: Rep. Lee Zeldin was viewed favorably by a margin of 20-19. That compares to 18-17 in April.
Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino polled at 20-15. That compares to 32-41 in October, 2014, right before his last run for governor concluded with a loss to Cuomo.
image…NY Daily News
Another piece on Cuomo’s poll numbers…
New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has spent the last several months fending off calls for him to resign over a series of allegations of sexual harassment from former female employees.
He has routinely rejected those calls to step aside, insisting that everyone needs to wait for the results of an ongoing investigation being conducted by New York Attorney General Letitia James into the allegations. Cuomo has also argued that “people know the difference between playing politics, bowing to cancel culture, and the truth.”
His persistent refusal to walk away from the governorship — or to show any doubt about whether or not to seek a fourth term next November drew eyerolls and derision from many Democratic politicians earlier this spring.
But new poll numbers from Siena College suggest that, at worst, the New York Democrat has managed to tread water amid these allegations — and may even be decently positioned to win again in November 2022…
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(I STILL feel the guy has a better than even chance to keep his job)
WTF is gonna have their name in media on this?
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) reelection campaign is hosting a fundraising event later this month, even as his political future remains uncertain amid multiple probes into the three-term governor.
An invitation for the June 29 event in New York City offers tickets for $10,000 per person or $15,000 for a two-person admission….
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