A new poll shows socialist Zohran Mamdani has cemented his huge lead in the New York City mayoral race with just five days until the hotly-anticipated election.
Mamdani, 34, holds a significant 25 point lead over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at 50 percent to 25 percent, with Republican Curtis Sliwa registering 21 percent support.
The results came in the final Emerson College Polling/PIX11/The Hill survey, and showed that Mamdani has increased his overall support by seven percent – from 43 percent to 50 percent – since the same poll was conducted a month ago.
Sliwa has faced mounting pressure to drop out of the race to give Cuomo a fighting chance on election day, and the pollster showed the Republican has gained eleven percent in support, from 10 percent to 21 percent, in the last month.
Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said Mamdani’s lead is ‘built on a coalition across key demographics’ in the city, including increasing his lead with black voters.
Since September, Mamdani increased his support among black voters from 50 percent to 71 percent, while Cuomo dropped 10 percent in the same time.
Mamdani’s base is also maintained by a huge lead among young voters, with 69 percent of those under 50 revealing plans to vote for him.
The poll comes as early voting in New York opened on October 25, and those who have already cast their ballot have supported the socialist candidate by 33 percent, Emerson said.
A new poll shows socialist Zohran Mamdani has cemented his huge lead in the New York City mayoral race with just five days until the election
Mamdani, 34, holds a significant 25 point lead over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (left) with Republican Curtis Sliwa (center) coming in third
The Emerson poll also asked voters what their top issue was in this year’s mayoral election, with 30 percent saying they believe threats to democracy to be the most important.
A quarter of respondents said the economy was their top issue, and 14 percent said housing affordability was most important to them.
Mamdani’s healthy lead comes despite a significant push from wealthy donors and conservatives to try and upend the candidate in the home stretch of the election.
High earners have already begun to move out the city in anticipation of Mamdani’s victory, attempting to flee before he can enact his socialist policies, including a vow to raise taxes on wealthy New Yorkers.
Experts say apartment listings have increased since Mamdani won the Democratic primary in June and things have only gotten worse.
‘There is no question that there are people who are hedging that in the event Mamdani is elected they will step out of New York,’ Douglas Elliman luxury realtor Frances Katzen told Daily Mail.
For luxury buyers, they are also are also pulling the plug on purchasing apartments due to Mamdani’s proposed policies.
‘Two weeks ago, I had a couple of buyers in the $3, $4 and $5 million price point range – one I was selling a building to – who are no longer interested in buying,’ added New York realtor Jay Batra.
‘These people are not thrilled about the possibility of Mamdani winning.’
Zohran Mamdani (center) with Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a campaign rally at Forest Hills Stadium in the Queens, New York, on Monday
Real estate experts say apartment listings have increased in New York City since Mamdani surged into the lead earlier this year, as high earners look to flee his socialist policies
In a startling poll by JL Partners for the Daily Mail this week, many residents of the Big Apple believe their home is about to spiral into a dystopian nightmare of crime and violence, boarded-up storefronts and antisemitic hate if Mamdani becomes mayor.
The poll showed that many New Yorkers who do not support Mamdani are convinced he is going to ‘destroy’ America’s biggest metropolis and crater its economy, sending shockwaves across the rest of the country.
They think it could mark a return to the urban decay of the 1980s when the city was blighted by poverty, rampant crime, crumbling infrastructure and abandoned buildings.
Even among Mamdani’s own supporters more think he will make antisemitism in New York worse, rather than better.
Asked for one word to describe what the Big Apple would be like after four years of his left-wing policies, the most common response from non-Mamdani voters was ‘disaster.’
They also said a Mamdani-run New York would be ‘chaos,’ ‘hell,’ ‘broken,’ and a ‘s***hole.’
The poll found New Yorkers expect a wide array of the city’s problems to get worse under a ‘Mayor Mamdani,’ including crime, antisemitism and the economy.
It found 47 percent believe levels of crime and violence will get worse, with only 32 percent saying the city would be safer under Mamdani.
On the issue of crime there was a stark split among New Yorkers based on age.
For voters under 30, 49 percent said they believed safety would improve under Mamdani, with 32 percent saying it would not.
But among over 65s only 26 percent thought the city would be safer under Mamdani and 50 percent said it would not.
Meanwhile, the poll found 43 percent of New Yorkers expect the number of businesses in the city to decrease under Mamdani, with stores going under and potential entrepreneurs forced to head elsewhere.
Only 23 percent thought the number of businesses would rise under the democratic socialist.
The poll showed 39 percent expected the risk of terrorism to increase under Mamdani, with only 18 percent thinking it will lessen.
And 45 percent of New Yorkers thought the problem of antisemitic views in the city would get worse, with only 21 percent thinking it would improve.
Even Democrats thought Mamdani would have a negative impact on antisemitism, with 29 percent saying he would make it better and 32 percent worse.
