Cuomo cuts Mamdani’s lead by 10 points after Adams exit: Poll

A survey released eight days before Election Day shows that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who is running as an independent for mayor of New York City, has cut Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani’s lead in half.

The most recent Suffolk University poll, which was done over the last four days, shows Mamdani ahead of Cuomo by 10 points, 44 percent to 34 percent. Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, is in third place with 11 percent. Last month, in a survey in Suffolk, Mamdani was 20 points ahead of Cuomo, with 45 percent to 25 percent. Sliwa was next with 9 percent, and Eric Adams, the current Democratic mayor of New York City who was also running as an independent, was last with 8 percent.

Today, 7% of people say they don’t know what to do, down from 9% last month.

Adams has stopped running for reelection and backed Cuomo since last month’s poll. Still, 2% of people who answered said they plan to vote for Adams, whose name will still be on the ballot. But when they found out that Adams had stopped running for office, less than a fifth of them said they still plan to fill in the circle next to his name.

Cuomo is more popular than Mamdani among Sliwa voters. When asked for their second option, 36% chose the previous governor and only 2% chose the race’s front-runner. David Paleologos, who runs the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said in a statement that Sliwa is “the one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome.” He said that Sliwa’s voters “hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race,” pointing to their second-choice candidates. Hispanic and independent voters are the ones who have seen the biggest changes in Cuomo’s support in the previous month.

Cuomo is ahead of Mamdani by 1 point among Hispanic voters, after being behind Mamdani by 30 points in that group last month.

Cuomo is now ahead of the independent voters by 10 points, up from 18 points last month when they favored Mamdani.

The study was done from October 23 to 26 and included 500 people who were likely to vote in the New York City general election. There is a 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5575159-cuomo-cuts-mamdani-lead/

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