As former Gov. Cuomo made his closing case to voters forward of Tuesday’s election, he touted the outcomes of a brand new ballot that present him edging nearer to Democratic socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani within the race for mayor.
In accordance with an AtlasIntel ballot launched late Friday, Mamdani continues to be main the three-man race with almost 41% of the 1,587 seemingly voters canvassed, however Cuomo is catching up with 34%.
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa is in third place with 24%.
The polling outcomes come as a whole bunch of hundreds of New Yorkers have already voted early in Tuesday’s mayoral election.
“The gap is closing fast — we can feel it on the ground everywhere from the Bronx to Staten Island,” Cuomo stated in a press release Saturday. “At this rate, we win the race.”
The polling outcomes additionally got here the evening earlier than Cuomo visited Queens, the place he was grand marshal within the seventh Annual We Can As a result of We Know We Can Parade in Cambria Heights. He was additionally anticipated to greet voters in Jamaica, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn, as he continues to courtroom Black voters.
“I’m not worried at all. I continue to be confident, but I never let that confidence become complacency,” stated Mamdani, who believes the big turnout of early voters equates to New Yorkers wanting a change within the metropolis’s management.
“When you actually go out there and speak to New Yorkers yourself, you will find the momentum continues to grow, and it’s a momentum of young voters, of older voters, a momentum of New Yorkers who are hungry for change, and we’re excited to see, especially yesterday, how many New Yorkers came out to vote,” he stated Saturday.
Atlas Ballot
2025 New York Metropolis Mayoral Election
Within the race for NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani (D) leads Andrew Cuomo (I) by 6.6pp and Curtis Sliwa (R ) by 16.5pp. pic.twitter.com/wiCrRaYDpo
The seemingly voters questioned by AtlasIntel put Cuomo forward of Mandani by eight factors if Sliwa wasn’t within the race, the ballot exhibits. Republican leaders have spent the previous couple of weeks encouraging Sliwa to step down so die-hard Republican voters would facet with Cuomo’s camp.
However the AtlasIntel ballot — which makes use of “proprietary data collection technology and post-stratification algorithms” in its polling course of, in response to the corporate’s web site — is an outlier of kinds.
A Marist ballot launched Thursday confirmed Mamdani with a sturdy 16 level lead over Cuomo.
