Posted on 07/06/2025 3:27:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Democratic socialist nominee Zohran Mamdani is the front-runner to win the general election for Big Apple mayor but could be vulnerable if anti-Mamdani voters coalesce around one opposition candidate, a new poll released Thursday claims.
The American Pulse survey shows Mamdani with the support of 35% of general election voters, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo with 29%, Republican Curtis Sliwa with 16% and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams at 14% and another independent candidate, Jim Walden, at 1%.
“Mamdani has an early lead and a clear message, but deeper scrutiny may erode enthusiasm among general election voters,” said American Pulse pollster Dustin Olson.
He said there are “warning signs flashing all around” the 33-year Queens assemblyman.
“It’s possible some voters already have buyer’s remorse. When they hear about government-run grocery stores or Mamdani’s continued refusals to denounce ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ which many folks — including me — consider to be an antisemitic slogan, support softens,” the right-leaning pollster said.
Still, nearly every analyst had wrongly predicted Cuomo would defeat Mamdani in the ranked-choice Democratic primary — with the Emerson College Poll’s last survey among the exceptions. So, general election polling should be taken with a grain of salt.
Mamdani defeated Cuomo 56% to 44% in the ranked-choice primary.
But Mamdani now faces a broader swath of voters who may not be on board with his leftist proposals that include imposing $9 billion in new taxes on the wealthy and corporations and shifting the property tax burden to “richer and whiter” neighborhoods to pay for free buses and child care, city-run grocery stores and housing expansion.
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Get your orders in early for your U-Haul truck.
B.S.
Click bait.
The French Socialist are pragmatic, and drop out all the time to defeat conservatives. US needs to learn from them.
NYC voters must be as stupid as California voters.
Why do you say that?
Tell the bearded candidate to explain in detail the differences between “socialism” and “communism”.
On a debate stage with Glenn Beck and Mark Levin.
Cuomo needs to drop out and endorse someone !
As long as all three stay in the race absolutely Sinwar’s brother from another mother wins, but if two drop out, and endorse Adams, Adams wins
More importantly, they need to get more than 30% to vote !
Because he don’t have a chance in Hell.
Adams Wins.
Stop the drama.
Trump will campaign for him.
Never happen as long as all stay in zo is the new mayor
The History Channel series on the gangsters after the 1960s in New York showed one who capitalized on the hopeless law enforcement just before the coming of the young Rudy Giuliani.
One scene showed couple of minutes of a slow moving camera view of major avenues in New York City with boarded up storefronts as the narrator said nearly one million people fled New York, causing tax funds to dry up and the city to have national headlines about “New York Going Bankrupt.” He said the highest income people left while the poor stayed.
Those days will return.
Maybe a key word was missing.😄
Help me out here.
A modest question. Can’t there be a better candidate than Curtis Sliwa?
The best would be a John Lindsay, handsome, charismatic, willing to compromise but basically Republican.
As someone said about Sliwa, wearing a funny hat does not make you a leader.
The question is whether high income New Yorkers should bug out now or wait and see what he actually proposes.
Has anyone asked Mamdani about exit taxes and retroactivity? I lived in NYC in 1977-78, which is probably far enough back to put me in a safe harbor. The last time I was there was probably five or six years ago, when we did a long weekend. I was on a mission to see the Met Cloisters, which had somehow eluded me over the years, and to finally get to the second floor of the MMA, as I always get stuck in the antiquities on the main floor.
Anyhow, I’m guessing Mamdani won’t impose retroactive tourist taxes ....
Ho lee crap! Well, aoc, schmuckee, nadless so..... My kin are up to about 2,800 rpm.
Polls stopped working long ago
This is not 1993 when Rudy Giuliani became the Mayor of NYC.
Free crap. Brand new idea.
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