Cuomo leads the Big Apple Fall Mayor polls….
New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo commands a double-digit lead among Democratic voters in the mayoral primary, but his advantage hasn’t been boosted by Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to run as an independent, a poll released Tuesday found.
The Siena College survey, conducted with AARP New York last week, showed Cuomo beating second-place challenger Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, by 18 points in the first round of ranked-choice voting.
Cuomo and Adams, moderates who openly criticize the left flank of the Democratic Party, share a base of blue-collar New Yorkers of color in vote-rich parts of Queens and Brooklyn. The ex-governor’s team thus expected his already-sizable polling lead would expand after the Democratic mayor decided to forgo the June 24 primary to focus on the November general election.
But Siena’s poll found a remarkably static field, despite the drama that’s enveloped the race to lead the nation’s largest city: Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges in September, only to have the case dismissed six months later with explicit help from the Trump administration.
The survey is one of only a few to simulate New York City’s relatively new ranked-choice voting system, which allows voters to select up to five candidates in order of preference. The share of votes for the lower-ranked candidates gets redistributed as they get eliminated until two candidates remain.
The former governor received 34 percent in the first round of voting, the poll found. Mamdani placed second with 16 percent. The remaining candidates — New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, former Comptroller Scott Stringer, state Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos, former Assemblymember Michael Blake and businessperson Whitney Tilson — came in single digits during the first round…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading Chuck Schumer in the US Senate …(The election would.be in 2028)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading Chuck Schumer by double digits in a new head-to-head poll of the 2028 New York primary.
The survey by the liberal firm Data for Progress, first shared with POLITICO, found that 55 percent of Democratic likely voters said they supported or leaned toward supporting Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, while 36 percent backed or leaned toward backing Sen. Schumer. Nine percent were undecided….
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It is unclear what the Schumer-Ocasio-Cortez poll could mean for the New York primary in three years, however, with surveys this early rarely being predictive. Ocasio-Cortez has also been noncommittal about a potential Senate run. Schumer has filed paperwork to run for reelection….
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