Exclusive | Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani emerging as a serious contender for NYC mayor: poll
He’s coming out of left field.Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate running for New York City mayor, is emerging as a serious contender, a new poll claims.The survey of likely Democratic voters conducted for Tusk Strategies shows the state assemblyman from Queens — the DSA candidate — in second place with 12% support.That’s ahead of incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who notched 10% support among likely Dem voters, followed by 7% for current city Comptroller Brad Lander and 5% for former Comptroller Scott Stringer.Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who is mulling a late entry into the mayor’s race — even as a relative unknown among many New Yorkers — garnered only 2% support.It’s the first survey that includes Adrienne Adams — no relation to the mayor — as a potential candidate in the June Democratic primary.Ex-Gov.Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to soon announce a comeback bid for mayor, has a commanding lead with 38% support of respondents — mirroring prior surveys.Former Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake has the support of 3% of Democrats, followed by Brooklyn Sen.
Zellnor Myrie with 2%, Queens state Sen.Jessica Ramos with 1% and financer Whitney Tilson at zero, according to the survey.The poll of 1,214 city Democrats interviewed on Feb.
22-23 was conducted by the Honan Strategy Group for Tusk Strategies.The text-to-web survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.81 percentage points.Pollster Bradley Honan’s previous clients include former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and the Teach Coalition affiliated with the Jewish Orthodox Union.Honan said Mamdani has emerged as the surprising story of the campaign so far, showing growing strength — well behind Cuomo, but ahead of the incumbent mayor, a current and former citywide comptroller and other lawmakers.The survey found 33% of voters ages 18 to 34 support Mamdani, more than any other candidate for the youngest age group.Mamdani received 9% of...