Cuomo closes gap on Mamdani as NYC mayor race tightens dramatically in new poll
With just over a week until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani holds a double-digit lead in the raucous race for the nation's most populous city, but former New York Gov. Andrew...
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With just over a week until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani holds a double-digit lead in the raucous race for the nation's most populous city, but former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the gap, according to a new public opinion poll. Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from the New York City borough of Queens who shocked the political world in June with his convincing win over Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination, stands at 44% support among likely voters in the most recent survey in the race, from Quinnipiac University. Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 amid multiple scandals and who is running as an Independent candidate in the general election after losing the primary, had 34% support in the survey. The survey was conducted Thursday through Sunday, entirely after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams endorsed Cuomo in a bid to defeat Mamdani. The embattled Democratic mayor had been running for re-election as an independent but dropped out of the race late last month, although his name remains on the ballot. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ON THE NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL ELECTION Guardian Angels co-founder Curtis Sliwa , who for a second straight election is the Republican mayoral nominee in the Democratic-dominated city, stood at 11% in the poll. The remaining four candidates listed on the ballot grabbed 2% support, with 7% undecided and 2% questioned in the survey refusing to respond. CHECK OUT WHICH CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR THIS MAJOR NEW YORK CITY NEWSPAPER ENDORSED Mamdani's 10-point advantage over Cuomo is down from his 20-point lead in Suffolk's September poll. Suffolk University Political Research Center director David Paleologos highlighted that "Cuomo’s biggest gains" were among Hispanic voters and independents. Cuomo has turned up the volume on his criticisms of Mamdani during the closing stretch of the campaign, with dire warnings that "mayhem" would follow a Ma…