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Forbes
a day ago
- Business
- Forbes
Could Andrew Cuomo Lose NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary To Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani?
On "Forbes Newsroom," Emerson College pollster Matt Taglia discussed a recent poll about the NYC mayoral election, showing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) in the lead of the Democratic primary, with a sudden surge of Democratic Socialists of America member candidate Zohran Mamdani. Watch the full interview above.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Surging Mamdani cuts Cuomo's lead in Democratic NYC mayoral primary to just single digits: poll
Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is surging, cutting ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's frontrunner status in the Democratic primary to just a single digit lead, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The latest PIX 11/ Emerson College poll has the Queens state Assemblyman holding his own with Cuomo for 10 rounds of ranked-choice voting before being eliminated with a nine-point spread, 54.4% to 45.6%. But with less than a month to the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary, only a small fraction of voters appear to be up for grabs, with 3.5% of voters still undecided, according to the survey conducted May 23 to 26. 3 Zohran Mamdani has been playing nice in the sandbox with other lefty pols, which has appeared to help him grow his voter base. LP Media Advertisement 'With four weeks to go, the question is whether Cuomo can run out the clock, or if he needs to win over second-choice voters to hold off Mamdani's momentum,' said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. In the ranked-choice simulation, the first for the pollster, the former governor continued his strong first-round showing at 35% of the vote and Mamdani coming in second at 23%. City Comptroller Brad Lander was third with 11%, followed by former Comptroller Scott Stringer with 9%, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams with 8% and Brooklyn state Sen. Zellnor Myrie with 5%. Advertisement Round after round, the poll showed Mamdani continuing to gain ground by picking up more of the second-choice votes from Democrats after their first-choice candidates were eliminated. Under the system, voters rank their top five candidates. A winner is only selected after getting more than 50% of the vote, with the lowest-ranked contender dropping off each round. Those votes then fall to the next-ranked candidate who has yet to be eliminated. Playing nice on the left has appeared to greatly benefit Mamdani, 33, who has formed a loose alliance with other candidates in a strategic bid to block the thrice-elected 67-year-old gov from making a political comeback. 3 Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly come out on top in each poll. Stephen Yang Advertisement The young Queens pol even urged supporters to donate funds to rival Adrienne Adams' mayoral campaign to help her qualify for matching public funds, after he maxed out his own coffers. He's also part of the left-wing Working Families Party's preferred but unranked slate that also includes Adams — no relation to Mayor Eric Adams — Lander and Myrie. In PIX11/Emerson's prior poll in late March, Cuomo led 38% to 10% over Mamdani, after the assemblyman only garnered 1% support just weeks prior. In ranked-choice surveys by other pollsters, Cuomo defeated Mamdani by double digits — including in the Mamdani campaign's own poll released Tuesday. Advertisement 'Cuomo has led in the polls since early 2025, but Mamdani has surged, gaining 23 points and winning second-choice votes nearly 2-to-1, cutting Cuomo's ranked-choice lead from 12 points to 9 points,' said Kimball. 3 Brad Lander has shied away from hitting the second place candidate in the race. LP Media The primary election is June 24, with nine days of early voting beginning June 14. Cuomo also cleans up in the general election in November — albeit far off. If elected as the Democratic nominee, Cuomo wins with 44% support, according to the poll. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa comes in second with 13%, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams as an independent ballot candidate in third with 10%, and another independent candidate, Jim Walden, carves off 7%. With Mamdani as the Democratic nominee, 35% would support him in the election, to 16% for Sliwa, 15% Adams, and 6% for Walden. About one-quarter of general election voters are undecided. Advertisement Cuomo has managed to maintain nearly the same approval rating since jumping in the race, with this latest poll showing 41% of New Yorkers view him favorably while 47% view him unfavorably. Adams, though, has failed to gain much ground with New Yorkers now that his historic federal criminal case was killed — only managing to muster 19% favorability while 69% view him unfavorably. President Trump has managed to outperform Adams with 27% favorability, but his unfavorable rating matches the mayor at 69%. On other matters, half of New York City voters think mass deportations of undocumented immigrants hurt the city, while 30% think they are a positive development and 20% are unsure. Advertisement Nearly half of city voters — 49% — say their family's finances are worse off now than a year ago, 35% say they are about the same, and 16% say they are better off. Meanwhile, 61% of voters support making it easier for first responders to forcibly hospitalize mentally ill people who are determined unable to meet their basic needs, while 13% are opposed and 26% are unsure. As for the Middle East, 46% do not think it is very important or somewhat important that the next mayor has a pro-Israel stance, compared to 33% who believe it is important. The remaining 21% of respondents have no opinion. Advertisement In the other citywide races, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is out to a dominating lead over Brooklyn Councilman Justin Brannan, 51 to 23. Incumbent Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also runs away with the nomination, according to this poll, leading state Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar 56 to 15. Five hundred Democrats were sampled for the ranked choice voting simulation after excluding undecided voters. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. Overall, 1,000 registered voters were interviewed overall for questions unrelated to the Democratic primary via phone, text survey and an online panel. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
NYC mayoral race tightens with Mamdani gaining on Cuomo
NEW YORK (PIX11) — New exclusive polling from PIX11, Emerson College and The Hill is showing a tightening in the race for New York City mayor. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo may no longer be running away with the Democratic Primary. This poll conducted from May 23 to May 26 shows him with a 12-point lead over Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a lead that shrinks to 8% with ranked-choice voting. More Local News Cuomo is getting 35% of first-choice votes in the first round of Emerson's ranked-choice voting simulation, which excluded approximately 4% of voters who said they were undecided. Mamdani is at 23% in round one, and Comptroller Brad Lander rounds out the top three getting 11%. Cuomo's lead further narrows as lower candidates are eliminated and their votes flow to others under NYC's ranked-choice system. He beats Mamdani in the final round of ranked-choice voting by 54% to 46%. In response to the poll Cuomo Campaign spokesman Rich Azzopardi wrote: 'This poll of registered voters appears to be an outlier, but the facts across the board remain the same — Andrew Cuomo is the consistent and overwhelming frontrunner in this race. That's because New Yorkers know he is the only candidate in this race with the executive experience and the proven record of results to fix what's broken and put this city back on the right track after 12 years of failed leadership.' More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State Here is the full ranked choice voting simulation from Emerson College Polling, including all Democratic Primary candidates: 'Cuomo has led in the polls since early 2025, but Mamdani has surged, gaining 23 points and winning second-choice votes nearly 2-to-1, cutting Cuomo's ranked-choice lead from 12 points to 9 points,' Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. 'With four weeks to go, the question is whether Cuomo can run out the clock, or if he needs to win over second-choice voters to hold off Mamdani's momentum.' More News: Politics PIX11 recently obtained an internal survey from Zohran Mamdani that also showed him inching closer to Cuomo in the polls. But most other publicly available polling from earlier in May, including polls by Marist and Survey USA, show Cuomo with more than a 20% lead in round one of ranked-choice voting simulations. This poll shows Cuomo, if he wins the Democratic nomination, would have an easier time in a hypothetical general election that includes likely Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, Mayor Eric Adams running as an independent, and lawyer Jim Walden also running as an independent. Cuomo gets 44% in this hypothetical matchup, Sliwa gets 13%, Adams gets 10%, Walden gets 7% and 26% are undecided. Mamdani would still be the favorite in November, just not by as much as Cuomo. In a hypothetical with Mamdani as the Democrat, he gets 35%, Sliwa gets 16%, Adams gets 15% and Walden gets 6%, with 27% undecided. On the issues, New Yorkers now say housing is the top concern at 30%, followed by the economy at 22% and crime at 19%. Nearly half of New Yorkers, 49% said their family finances are worse than a year ago. Most New Yorkers, 61%, support making it easier to involuntarily remove people from the streets and subways if they cannot take care of themselves, which state lawmakers just enacted. Mayor Adams and President Donald Trump both remain unpopular in New York City with 69% of likely voters saying they had an unfavorable view of each leader. When it comes to mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, 50% of New York City voters said it's negatively impacting the city while 30% think they are positive. About 20% are unsure. Voters were a bit mixed on how important it was for the next mayor to be supportive of Israel with 46% saying it was unimportant, 33% saying it was and 21% having no opinion. In the race for Comptroller, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine leads in the Democratic Primary poll getting 37% of voters surveyed. Brooklyn City Councilman Justin Brannan gets 17% and State Senator Kevin Parker gets 12%. A whopping 29% of those surveyed were undecided. Levine would easily win a ranked-choice voting simulation run by Emerson College Polling that eliminates undecided voters. Current Public Advocate Jumaane Williams appears poised to keep his job. The survey found him getting 56% of first-choice votes. Queens Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar got 15% and Financial Analyst Marty Dolan got 13% while 16% of respondents were undecided on the Public Advocate Democratic Primary. The Emerson College Polling New York City survey was conducted from May 23 to May 26, 2025. The sample of New York registered voters, n=1,000, has a credibility interval, similar to a poll's margin of error (MOE), of +/- 3 percentage points. The sample of Democratic Primary voters includes n=606, with a credibility interval of +/-3.9%. The final mayoral rank-choice simulation includes n=500 with a margin of error of +/-4.3%. The data sets were weighted by gender, education, race, age, party registration, and region based on 2025 voter turnout modeling. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
André 3000, Jennifer Coolidge, and Sara Bareilles were all in MA in May. Here's why
André 3000, Jennifer Coolidge and Sara Bareilles were all in Massachusetts this past month. No, Met Gala was not moved to TD Garden at the last second, these three celebrities were actually in the Commonwealth to deliver commencement addresses to the graduating classes of different colleges in Boston. Coolidge, recent star of "A Minecraft Movie," spoke at the graduation ceremony of Emerson College. The man known for the smash hit songs "Hey Ya" and "Ms. Jackson" and the woman behind the musical "Waitress" spoke at Berklee College of Music's graduation ceremony, with the latter two receiving honorary doctorates. Here's what these three superstars had to say. Coolidge, who was born in Boston, gave her commencement address to Emerson College's graduating class of 2025 in a way only she could, with powerful moments of inspiration carried by endearing asides and hilarious jokes. "Don't listen to the people who mess up the real story you've got going," Coolidge said to the graduating students. The actress, who graduated from Emerson in 1985, went on to say that she was so absurdly proud of the Emerson Class of 2025 and then said that they should give themselves the weekend to take a break, extending that break comically through New Years' Eve. "Congratulations, and as Elle Woods, my co-partner in crime, would say, "We did it," Coolidge concluded. André Benjamin, popularly known as André 3000 and for his work as part of the hip-hop duo Outkast, spoke to the Class of 2025 at Berklee College of Music, first talking about his musical beginnings. "You are the futures, and I'm excited to hear how y'all hear things," Benjamin said. Benjamin talked how he formed Outkast with his creative partner Antwan Patton, whose stage name is Big Boi. He said the graduating class should stay delighted in their work, that that passion will help them endure. "Don't worry about what people say, good and bad because the praise can kind of blind you," Benjamin said. "Stay on your path." Benjamin received an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee, making him an honorary member of the Class of 2025. Bareilles, also spoke to the graduating Class of 2025 at Berklee and also received an honorary doctorate of music. "Music and art lifts me and, lots of times, it lifts somebody else too," the songwriter said. "It heals me and maybe somebody else." She instilled her view of the brutal reality of the music industry into that graduating class: constant perilous uncertainty where artistic labor is at risk of being stolen or silenced by artificial intelligence and political demagogues. "And there are so many trap doors, but there are so many trampolines," Bareilles said. "And to find them, you just have to keep telling the truth, whatever that is, your blunt, broken, beautiful, perfectly imperfect human truth." Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at rvelasco@ This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: André 3000, Jennifer Coolidge, and Sara Bareilles were in MA. See why
Boston Globe
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
ArtsEmerson announces new season of programming
A presenting and producing organization that operates under the aegis of Emerson College, ArtsEmerson announced Thursday evening that it will showcase nine stage productions in the 2025-26 season. The first will be the premiere of 'Food Bank Influencer,' slated for Sept. 19-21. Written and performed by Kristina Wong, it's a musical celebration of the nation's emergency food system, based on Wong's experiences from New York to the Navajo Nation. Advertisement Next, from Oct. 9-12, will be 'Hang Time,' by Zora Howard, in which 'the great loves and bitter blues of Black men in America' are illuminated by a conversation among three men beneath an old tree. Then comes 'The 4th Witch,' from Oct. 30-Nov. 9. A production by Manual Cinema inspired by 'Macbeth,' it uses shadow puppetry, live music, and silhouette actors to tell the story of a young girl — 'consumed by grief and rage' after her father is killed — who comes under the protection of witches after agreeing not to use her powers in a quest for revenge. That proves to be a challenge when she learns the identity of her father's killer. That will be followed by 'Spacebridge,' from Nov. 21-23. Directed by Irina Kruzhilina, it was inspired by 12-year-old Samantha Smith's peace mission to the Soviet Union in 1983. Advertisement 'Spacebridge' chronicles the struggles of Russian children within the New York shelter system and their broader effort to integrate into a new land. From Jan. 29-Feb. 1 will come 'Noli Timere,' an aerial performance that blends circus arts, contemporary dance, sculpture, and music by Québécois composer Jorane. Next up, from Feb. 20-22, is 'The Things Around Us,' a solo show written and performed by Ahamefule, who uses looped music, technology, a trumpet, and cardboard shipping boxes as drums to tell stories and offer reflections about 'strangers, acquaintances, and friends — and how all three might be more similar to each other than we often think.' 'Dead as a Dodo,' a production from Norway that will be at the Emerson Cutler Majestic from March 2-8, centers on the friendship between a skeletal dodo and a young boy who have to flee the Skeleton King after the dodo sprouts wings. From March 21-April 4, working in collaboration with the Front Porch Arts Collective, ArtsEmerson will present Mfoniso Udofia's 'In Old Age.' The penultimate work in Udofia's epic nine-part Ufot Family Circle, 'In Old Age' focuses on Abasiama Ufot. Her husband has died, but she develops a 'spiritual bond' — and a romantic one — with a churchgoing carpenter, Azell Abernathy. Wrapping up the season will be the premiere of a multimedia adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer,' running April 24 to May 3. It will feature music, dance, text, sound, and video projection to explore the intimate connection between two men who are both outsiders. Don Aucoin can be reached at
