Mayor Eric Adams held up a print out of a 2021 article by The Unbiased displaying former mayoral candidate Andrew Yang with an early lead in that yr’s major. Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.
Photograph by Lloyd Mitchell
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Mayor Eric Adams on Monday defiantly disregarded a brand new ballot displaying former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has but to leap into the race, with a whopping 26% lead within the Democratic mayoral major.
“I’ve been here before, this is deja vu,” Adams mentioned. “In February, Yang had a double-digit lead on me.”
The mayor in contrast the present leg of the marketing campaign to a sports activities season, noting that the yet-to-come playoff part is when it actually turns into clear who’s main within the race. He insisted his on-the-ground connections with varied communities accross the 5 boroughs will finally buoy his reelection effort.
“My story resonates with New Yorkers,” Adams mentioned. “No one handed me an empire. I’m building empires for New Yorkers…So, I can’t sit back and worry about what the pollsters say, I have to listen to what the people say.”
Cuomo camp nonetheless mum, however stirring
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo departs the Rayburn Home Workplace constructing after testifying earlier than the Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 10, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Cuomo’s longtime spokesperson, Wealthy Azzopardi, declined to touch upon the ballot or Adams’ remarks.
However the former governor has reportedly been mulling a run for over a yr as he seems to make a political comeback, following almost a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct resulting in his 2021 resignation because the state’s prime govt. Cuomo fiercely denies the allegations.
In accordance with a report final week, Cuomo will possible launch a run in February.
The survey additionally included a pattern of how the candidates would do in a ranked-choice major, which is what the June contest might be. It has Cuomo passing the 50% threshold wanted to win the race within the fifth spherical of ranked-choice voting, with Adams eradicated in spherical 4 after staying at 8%.
Lander isn’t frightened, both
Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander reacted to the current mayoral race ballot at his personal press convention on Jan. 13, 2025.Photograph by Dean Moses
The comptroller additional took goal at Cuomo’s sexual harassment allegations and Congressional Republicans’ cost that the previous governor lied to them beneath oath when testifying about his alleged function in overlaying up nursing dwelling deaths in the course of the pandemic.
“If you look back and look at about today nearly four years ago, you would see that Andrew Yang was on top of the polling,” Lander instructed reporters. “Andrew Yang did not prevail ultimately. This is the very beginning of the mayoral race and I do not believe that New Yorkers want another corrupt chaos agent at City Hall.”
The newest mayoral race polling comes as Adams faces a five-count federal corruption indictment, for which he’ll go on trial in April. Within the wake of the fees, to which Adams’ pleaded not responsible, his marketing campaign fundraising noticed a pointy drop-off and the Marketing campaign Finance Board denied him the primary spherical of public matching funds.
But on Tuesday, Adams expressed confidence that his fundraising numbers will bounce again within the newest reporting interval, which might be made public later this week.
“I think the numbers that are coming out in a short period of time is going to show that my base of support is still there,” the mayor mentioned. “My core is still there.”
