Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain neck-and-neck in NYC suburbs, Siena poll shows

Vice President Kamala Harris is inching up her commanding lead over former President Donald Trump in New York but remains neck-and-neck with the Republican among the state’s suburban voters, a newly released Siena College poll of likely voters shows.“Harris has widened her lead over Trump in New York, leading by 19 points in a head-to-head matchup,” Siena College poll spokesperson Steven Greenberg wrote in a statement.But the race is a lot closer on Long Island and in some suburban Hudson Valley Counties, the poll shows. Harris leads Trump 52% to 47% in the suburbs including Long Island as well as Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Orange Counties.The poll has a margin of error of 4.1%.Trump led Harris in the suburbs 50% to 48%, according to last month’s Siena poll.The popularity of the top of the ticket could play a major role, especially related to turnout, in the several battleground congressional districts in the Big Apple suburbs.The poll suggests that ballot proposition 1 has a significant amount of support despite a massive campaign led by Republicans in opposition to the measure.A whopping 69% of respondents told Siena pollsters they would support “an amendment to the state constitution that has been called the equal rights amendment.”Opponents say Prop 1 could unleash a laundry list of ills upon the Empire State such as allowing biological boys to play girls’ sports and giving non-citizens the right to vote.

Proponents say the measure would enshrine already significantly protected abortion rights into the state constitution.US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic incumbent, is also polling well above former NYPD detective and entrepreneur Mike Sapraicone.Gillibrand, who is vying for her third term, was the favored candidate of 57% of respondents compared with Sapraicone’s 31%.Both candidates, however, struggle with name recognition amongst New Yorkers.“Interestingly, three in ten voters continue to not know or not have an opinion of ...