Despite missteps, Andrew Cuomo maintains commanding lead in New York mayor's race

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo continues to dominate New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary with a double-digit lead in a new poll.

A Marist College survey, conducted during the first week of May, showed Cuomo defeating second-place opponent Zohran Mamdani by 24 points in the fifth round of ranked-choice voting, when the ex-governor clears the 50 percent threshold to win. Marist released the findings Tuesday, six weeks before voters will select their Democratic nominee.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams — who entered the race late, and has yet to amass enough money to air ads or qualify for public matching funds — placed third in the first round of a ranked-choice simulation.

Cuomo received 44 percent in that first round, to Mamdani’s 22 percent and Adams’ 11 percent. City Comptroller Brad Lander, who started in fourth place at 10 percent, finished in third place before being disqualified. The rest of the field — former Comptroller Scott Stringer, state Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos, former Assemblymember Michael Blake and businessperson Whitney Tilson — were in the single digits.


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