NEW YORK – The Democratic primary for New York City mayor is shaping up as a two-man race between former Governor Andrew Cuomo and progressive Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, according to new internal polls released by both campaigns.
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A Data for Progress poll commissioned by pro-Mamdani PACs shows Cuomo leading Mamdani by just 2 points in the final round of ranked-choice voting (51-49), within the margin of error. A poll from Cuomo’s team, conducted by Expedition Strategies, gives him a wider 12-point edge (56-44). Both show all other candidates in single digits.
Mamdani has been gaining momentum with a message focused on housing affordability and income inequality. He was recently endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and his favorability among those who know him is strong (58-15), though 28% of likely voters say they still don’t know enough about him.
Cuomo’s numbers remain steady, buoyed by strong support from older and Black voters. His campaign is emphasizing experience and leadership, while Mamdani’s allies push a “DREAM” strategy — urging voters to leave Cuomo off their ballots entirely.
With early voting set to begin Saturday and the primary on June 24, both camps are accelerating their messaging. Cuomo’s supporters have launched aggressive attacks portraying Mamdani as soft on crime and high on taxes. Mamdani responded Monday: “His decision to start focusing on me shows that he is scared — scared that a 40-point lead has become single digits.”
The race remains dynamic, with around 8-9% of voters still undecided.
Wake up Yidden!!! This is NOT a joke!! Hold your nose and vote Cuomo or risk the greatest anti-semites being in power.
If this is true, it should be a wake-up call to the Republicans to find a serious candidate for mayor rather than the unserious attention seeker, Curtis Sliwa, with his live cat scarf. Maybe Vito Fossella from Staten Island would throw in his hat?
Cuomo’s ambition is to be president. Should he become mayor, watch him position himself as a centrist in the Democrat party and hope to run as alternate to extreme lefties there.
NY, NJ , going, gone.
Sign of today’s time, mamdani, whose such a big anti semite, is rachmama litzlon so high in the polls for Mayor of NYC…
I vote for adams he did the right thing and acknowledge the ihra definition of anti semitism instead of the regular one
He has found the golden route of promising immeasurable benefits to the recipient class paid for, of course, by a shrinking tax base.
Open up your tehillim to Chapter 9.
Cuomo is horrible, but we won’t vote for a jihadi.
Either choice is very bad. I’m less scared of the enemy I can recognoze in the open who does not pretend to be my friend.
Yep. All that anti-Cuomo nonsense being peddled by GOP to hurt his chances for running for President have come to roost in NYC. Happy now that pro-Hamas guy will rule over BP, Willy, Crown Heights, etc?
We are B’ikvessa D’Moshiach. (BTW, although I live in Brooklyn, I don’t understand the Heter [B’zman Hazeh], of living in Chutz L’Eretz); and perhaps it’ll take this Rusha M’Rusha to start the process of “gathering the exiled” from the United States.
Mamdani cant win. All the frum are supporting cuomo plus all the real estate donations.
I hope Mamdani wins so the Eric adams haters can finally appreciate what we had