Mamdani holds large lead over Cuomo, rest of field, in NYC mayoral race

With lower than two months to go till the election day, Zohran Mamdani has a formidable lead over his rivals for mayor of New York Metropolis, in line with two new polls.

Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist State legislator from Queens who shocked the political world in June together with his convincing victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and 9 different candidates to beat the mayor’s nomination of the Democratic Occasion is on 22-point margins about Cuomo and the remainder of the sphere within the two new surveys.

Mamdani seizes 45% assist in in all probability voters in New York Metropolis in a examine of Quinnipiac College that was launched on Wednesday.

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New York Metropolis Democratic mayor nominated Zohran Mamdani, seeing supporters throughout a cloth launching occasion on Sunday, August 17, 2025, stays the clear survey Entrance-Runner with the mayor of town. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox Information Digital)

Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 as a governor, within the midst of a number of scandals and who drives as an impartial candidate within the basic elections after dropping the first, is 23% assist within the survey, which was carried out on 4-8 September.

Guardian Angels co-founder Curtis Sliwa, who’s the Republican Mayoral nominated for a second consecutive election within the metropolis dominated by Democrraat, is 15%. And controversial mayor Eric Adams, who runs as impartial after the choice to skip the democratic major within the midst of anemic polling, obtained 12% assist within the survey.

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The margin of Mamdani about Cuomo within the Quinnipiac ballot was the identical as its lead of 46% -24% in comparison with the previous governor in a examine by the New York Occasions/Siena School that was launched on Tuesday.

Former New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a mayor of New York Metropolis, speaks throughout a press convention on 4 August 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Angela Weiss/AFP through Getty pictures)

“In a mayor race that appears to be getting extra intense every single day, Zohran Mamdani has the wind in his again lower than two months till the election day,” mentioned Mary Snow, director of the Quinnipiac College Ballot assistant -director.

Each Sliwa and Adams have repeatedly promised to remain within the race in the previous couple of weeks within the midst of a number of stories that President Donald Trump’s advisers hoped for each mayors after they stopped.

Trump says that Cuomo has a ‘good shot’ of beating Mamdani within the election of NYC Mayor

Trump, a indigenous New Yorker who now mentions Florida’s home, has insisted that the sphere is slim to defeat Mamdani, the president of which repeatedly claims it’s a communist.

Mayor Eric Adams of New York Metropolis formally launched his impartial re -election supply, on 26 June 2025 in New York Metropolis (AP)

“I want to see two folks cease and have it one on one. And I feel that could be a race that may be gained,” Trump mentioned final week.

The ballot of Quinnipiac recommended that if Adams would finish his re-election marketing campaign, Mamdani Cuomo would lead 46%-30percentwith Sliwa by 17%.

However the New York Occasions/Siena survey, which was within the subject on 2-6 September, pointed to Mamdani edges Cuomo 48% -44% in a hypothetical match-up with two candidates.

The ballot of Quinnipiac means that Mamdani -Backers are extra enthusiastic (91%) about their candidate than Cuomo (75%), Adams (75%) or Sliwa (79%) supporters.

“Mamdani’s edge on enthusiasm amongst supporters is a plus,” Snow famous.

If he wins the overall elections of November, Mamdani, born in Ugandan, would write historical past as the primary Muslim and first millennial mayor of essentially the most populated metropolis of the nation.

Mamdani rose to the democratic major victory due to an brisk marketing campaign that set an vital give attention to affordability and the excessive prices of dwelling of New York Metropolis. It was fed by a grassroots military of supporters and assist from the perfect nationwide progressive champions, together with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.

Republican mayor nominated Curtis Sliwa is interviewed by Fox Information Digital, in New York Metropolis on August 18, 2025 (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information)

Mamdani made sensible use of social media platforms, together with TIKTOK, whereas caught up with low pre-purple voters. He recommended eliminating charges to run on the large bus system of New York Metropolis, in order that Cuny (Metropolis College of New York) made ‘tuition charges’, the rental costs for municipal properties, ‘free childcare’ for kids as much as 5 years previous and the federal government -run supermarkets.

Underneath a listing of 9 points supplied, 30% of the respondents within the survey mentioned that crime was essentially the most pressing subject, the place 21% inexpensive properties mentioned and 13% point out inflation. No different drawback has cracked double digits.

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Somewhat greater than two -thirds of the seemingly voters mentioned they had been dissatisfied with the best way issues go in New York Metropolis. And two -thirds mentioned they reject the best way of the best way Adams handles his job as a mayor.

A majority of the respondents mentioned that they need the following mayor in opposition to Trump to rise on immigration (60%) and on crime (56%), with lower than 4 in ten who say they need the following mayor to do extra to work with the president on each points.