Cuomo's lead shrinks with under one week until New York City mayoral primary: poll

The 2025 contention for New York City politician is tightening, with erstwhile Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pb shrinking with little than a week to spell until the important June 24 Democratic Party mayoral primary, a caller canvass indicates.

A Marist Institute for Public Opinion canvass released Wednesday shows that Cuomo – the erstwhile three-term governor – is the apical prime for 38% of apt Democratic superior voters successful New York City. 

Cuomo, who resigned successful 2021 amid aggregate scandals, is present eyeing a governmental comeback and moving to redeem his image.

Zorhan Mamdani, a 33-year-old antiauthoritarian socialist authorities assemblyman from Queens, stands successful 2nd spot successful the poll, with 27% enactment successful the primary, which is conducted utilizing a ranked-choice voting strategy successful which voters fertile candidates by penchant connected their ballots.

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Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo, left, and Zohran Mamdani, right, contiguous arguments arsenic Whitney Tilson looks connected during a Democratic mayoral superior statement connected Wednesday, June 4, 2025 successful New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)

Mamdani, who is primitively from Uganda, chopped Cuomo's pb by astir fractional from a Marist poll conducted a period ago, acknowledgment successful portion to consolidating progressive enactment successful the 11-candidate mayoral superior field.

Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City's astir salient person connected the left, endorsed Mamdani earlier this month. Earlier this week, longtime progressive champion and two-time Democratic statesmanlike nominee runner-up Sen. Bernie Sanders backed Mamdani.

With aggregate candidates connected the near moving successful the primary, the endorsements by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate the enactment of progressive voters down Mamdani.

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"Mamdani is intelligibly successful Cuomo’s rearview mirror," Marist polling manager Lee M. Miringoff told Fox News.

The canvass indicates that New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is simply a distant 3rd successful the superior battle.

The survey was conducted June 9-12, earlier the last statement betwixt the candidates and up of Lander's apprehension connected Tuesday by Department of Homeland Security agents successful Manhattan, aft allegedly assaulting a national serviceman arsenic Lander tried to escort a suspect retired of an migration court.

New York City Comptroller and mayoral campaigner Brad Lander, the latest U.S. person to beryllium swept up successful President Donald Trump's migration raids, is arrested astatine an migration tribunal successful New York City, June 17, 2025. (New York City Comptroller's Office/via REUTERS)

The canvass was besides conducted earlier the motorboat of an advertisement blitz questioning Mamdani's acquisition starring a metropolis of much than 8 cardinal people.

"Zohran Mamdani’s a 33-year-old dangerously inexperienced legislator who’s passed conscionable 3 bills with a unit you tin acceptable wrong a New York elevator," the narrator successful a Cuomo run advertisement said. "We request idiosyncratic acceptable to roll. Andrew Cuomo managed a authorities and managed crises, from COVID to Trump."

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Cuomo advisor and spokesperson Rich Azzopardi, erstwhile asked by Fox News astir the caller Marist survey, said, "This is the 2nd canvass successful 2 days that showed Andrew Cuomo opening and ending fertile prime voting with a double-digit pb successful a crowded multi-candidate race. These are superior times and New Yorkers cognize that Andrew Cuomo is the lone campaigner with the acquisition and the existent grounds of results to hole what’s breached and enactment the metropolis backmost connected the close track."

The 67-year-old Cuomo has spent the past 4 years warring to wide his sanction aft 11 intersexual harassment accusations, which helium has repeatedly denied, forced his resignation. He was besides nether probe astatine the clip for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic amid allegations his medication vastly understated COVID-related deaths astatine authorities nursing homes. 

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks astatine the New York City District Council of Carpenters portion campaigning for politician of New York City connected Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Last month, the Justice Department opened a transgression probe into Cuomo aft Republicans accused him of lying to Congress astir the decisions helium made arsenic politician during the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 130,000 Democrats person already formed ballots in aboriginal voting successful the Democratic primary, up of adjacent Tuesday's election.

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The victor of the Democratic Party superior is traditionally seen arsenic the overwhelming frontrunner successful the November wide predetermination successful the heavy bluish city.

However, this year, the wide predetermination run whitethorn beryllium a spot much unpredictable.

Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, a mean Democrat elected successful 2021, is moving for re-election arsenic an independent. Adams earlier this twelvemonth dropped his Democratic superior bid arsenic his support ratings sank to historical lows.

President Donald Trump, speaking successful the East Room of the White House connected Thursday, June 12, 2025, successful Washington, D.C., has taken center-stage successful New York City's Democratic Party mayoral superior campaign. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

While helium is not connected the ballot, President Donald Trump has taken halfway signifier connected the run way successful the closing weeks of the New York City superior battle.

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Cuomo and galore of the different candidates successful the contention person heavy criticized Trump's caller determination to spot National Guard troops and U.S. Marines successful Los Angeles successful an effort to quell unrest sparked by an summation successful ICE arrests of amerciable immigrants orchestrated by the administration.

The candidates are vowing to support the metropolis from what they suggest is simply a imaginable aboriginal national crackdown against migration protests successful New York City.