Mayor Adams stated Monday he doesn’t “focus on polls” in response to a brand new survey that discovered former Gov. Andrew Cuomo holding a 20-plus level lead over Adams — though the previous governor hasn’t even entered the mayoral race.
Amid a slew of challengers, Cuomo’s potential entry into the race has turn into a subject of hypothesis. Up to now few months, he’s switched his voter registration tackle to Manhattan, has spoken with a possible marketing campaign supervisor and has been floating early February as a goal date for a possible announcement, in keeping with a supply aware of the matter.
Talking Monday throughout his weekly Metropolis Corridor briefing, Adams in contrast the brand new numbers on Cuomo to the early edge held by Andrew Yang in 2021, calling it “deja vu” and pulling out a print-out of a 2021 headline that learn “Andrew Yang opens up huge lead in race to be next New York City mayor.”
“No one is going to outwork me,” Adams stated. “I am so committed authentically to New Yorkers. They connect with me. I went through some difficult hurdles. It’s amazing I’m still in it with the number of things I had to go through, but I’m still here.”
Yang, an early chief within the race to interchange former Mayor de Blasio, was in the end the primary candidate to concede and later completed fourth.
Mayor Eric Adams in contrast Cuomo’s potential result in the early edge held by Andrew Yang in 2021, calling it “deja vu” and pulling out a print-out of a 2021 headline that learn “Andrew Yang opens up huge lead in race to be next New York City mayor” for example his level Monday at Metropolis Corridor. (Ed Reed / Mayor’s Workplace)
The brand new ballot, commissioned by Progressives for Democracy in America, discovered Cuomo got here in first within the ranked-choice-style ballot at 32%, and Adams at 6%. It follows polling which have proven Adams doubtless dealing with an uphill battle to re-election: A December ballot discovered Adams’ job approval ranking is at an all-time low of 28% and an October survey revealed greater than two-thirds of New Yorkers thought Adams ought to resign.
Cuomo, who resigned as governor amid a sexual harassment scandal in 2021, has for months been floated as a potential mayoral challenger to Adams.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to testify earlier than the Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Picture by Kent Nishimura/Getty Photos)
Within the ballot, Scott Stringer landed second at 10%, with Brad Lander at 8%, State Sen. Jessica Ramos at 7% and state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani at 6%. State Sen. Zellnor Myrie got here in at 1% — with one other 18% choosing “unsure.”
The ballot was first reported by Politico and carried out on 800 voters between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22.
“We just wanted to know who might be competitive against Cuomo given obvious name recognition,” Alan Minsky, government director of the group, stated on why they commissioned the ballot with Hart Analysis Associates.
With Chris Sommerfeldt
