New York City is in free fall — and the latest poll from Emerson College shows just how far the radical rot has spread.
According to a shocking new poll released Monday, socialist State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America and staunch supporter of abolishing the police — has overtaken former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the city’s ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor, according to New York Post.
The same Zohran Mamdani who called for defunding the NYPD during a crime wave… the same Mamdani who’s cheered on illegal migrants overrunning New York’s shelters and public schools… the same Mamdani who wants the Big Apple to have government-owned grocery stores is now beating Cuomo.
Even the far-left New York Times is urging its readers not to put him on the city’s ranked-choice ballot.
The paper notes that Mamdani lacks any sort of experience which would qualify him to run the Big Apple, and points out that some of his ideas will simply (further) bankrupt the city.
The news outlet wrote:
“Unfortunately, Mr. Mamdani is running on an agenda uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges. He is a democratic socialist who too often ignores the unavoidable trade-offs of governance. He favors rent freezes that could restrict housing supply and make it harder for younger New Yorkers and new arrivals to afford housing. He wants the government to operate grocery stores, as if customer service and retail sales were strengths of the public sector. He minimizes the importance of policing.”
“Most worrisome, he shows little concern about the disorder of the past decade, even though its costs have fallen hardest on the city’s working-class and poor residents. Mr. Mamdani, who has called Mr. de Blasio the best New York mayor of his lifetime, offers an agenda that remains alluring among elite progressives but has proved damaging to city life.”
“Mr. Mamdani would also bring less relevant experience than perhaps any mayor in New York history. He has never run a government department or private organization of any size. As a state legislator, he has struggled to execute his own agenda.”
“…We do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots.”
In just five months, Mamdani has skyrocketed from 1% to 32% in support, according to the Emerson College Polling/Pix 11/The Hill survey. Cuomo, meanwhile, has stalled out at 35%, barely clinging to a 3-point lead in the first round of voting.
The Post reported:
Lefty upstart Zohran Mamdani has leapfrogged over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor, according to a stunning new poll released Monday.
In its hypothetical initial round of voting, Cuomo’s lead shrinks to 3 percentage points, with 35% of likely Democratic voters supporting him compared to 32% for Mamdani and 13% for city Comptroller Brad Lander, the Emerson College Polling/Pix 11/The Hill survey found.
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But since no one garners the more than 50% of the vote needed to win outright, the ranked choice system kicks in. That means that even if a voter’s first choice is eliminated in successive rounds of calculations, their other picks could still be in the mix and emerge as the eventual overall winner.
Mamdani finally surpasses Cuomo in the eighth round of the simulated ranked choice voting — 51.8% to 48.2% — in the latest poll conducted June 18-20.
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Voters who have already cast their ballots during the early voting period have broken for Mamdani, who holds a 10-point lead over Cuomo, 41% to 31%.
Cuomo leads Mamdani 36% to 31% among voters who plan to vote Tuesday.
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