{"id":290731,"date":"2025-10-10T01:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290731\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:47:23","slug":"cuomo-climbs-10-in-new-poll-but-still-trails-mamdani-after-adams-nyc-mayoral-race-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/290731\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo climbs 10% in new poll, but still trails Mamdani after Adams’ NYC mayoral race exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Adams\u2019 exit from this year\u2019s race for City Hall<\/a> is benefitting independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, though the ex-governor still trails Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani by double\u00a0digits, according to a new poll released Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Quinnipiac University poll<\/a>, the first major survey to analyze the state of the mayoral race since Adams\u2019 Sept. 28 campaign exit, found Cuomo pulling 33% support among likely New York City voters. That\u2019s up from the 23% Cuomo netted in a Quinnipiac survey from early September, when Adams was still in the race and polling at 12%.<\/p>\n

Still, Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid sexual and professional misconduct accusations he now denies, remains well behind Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee who scored 46% support in the latest Quinnipiac poll<\/a>, up one point from the September survey.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew Cuomo picked up the bulk of Adams\u2019 supporters cutting into Zohran Mamdani\u2019s lead, but Mamdani\u2019s frontrunner status by double digits stays intact,\u201d said Mary Snow, an assistant polling director at Quinnipiac.<\/p>\n

Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa, the only other major candidate in the race, raked in 15% support in the new survey, the same figure he got in the September poll.<\/p>\n

Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo\u2019s spokesman, seized on the poll as an indication of his boss\u2019 momentum, saying it shows \u201cthis race is shifting decisively.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe path is now clear: This is a two-person race between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani,\u201d Azzopardi said. \u201cAs voters learn more about the stakes and Cuomo\u2019s record of results \u2014 rebuilding LaGuardia, revitalizing the MTA, expanding affordable housing, and keeping New York safe \u2014 they are rallying behind proven leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Mamdani, Dora Pekec, said the poll doesn\u2019t change the fact that he is \u201cmeeting voters every day in all five boroughs who are ready to turn the page on the broken politics of the past and build a city everyone can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the billionaires continue to throw out their last-ditched efforts to prop up Andrew Cuomo, we have genuine enthusiasm and 80,000 volunteers on our side. Last time, it wasn\u2019t the billionaires who won that matchup,\u201d Pekec said, a reference to how Mamdani defeated Cuomo in June\u2019s Democratic mayoral primary by over 12%.<\/p>\n

Since abandoning his reelection bid<\/a> amid record low approval ratings driven, in part, by his federal corruption indictment, Adams has refrained from offering an endorsement in the mayoral\u00a0race.<\/p>\n

But the new poll suggests Adams\u2019 supporters are gravitating to Cuomo, whose politically moderate base overlaps with the incumbent\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 name will still appear on the Nov. 4 ballot as a deadline has passed to remove it.<\/p>\n

The detailed breakdown of the new poll features some downsides for Cuomo, including that 52% of New York City voters gave him an \u201cunfavorable\u201d rating, compared to 37% who viewed him as \u201cfavorable.\u201d Mamdani, by contrast, got a 43% favorable rating, compared to a 35% unfavorable listing.<\/p>\n

The survey<\/a>, which was conducted between last Friday and this past Tuesday, quizzed 1,015 likely city voters. It has a margin of error of +\/- 3.9%.<\/p>\n

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