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New York Post
23-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Shocking poll shows Mamdani overtaking Cuomo in NYC's ranked choice primary
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. City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams follows with 8%, Scott Stringer 3% and 5% split between candidates Zellnor Myrie, Whitney Tilson, Jessica Ramos and Michael Blake, with another 4% undecided. 6 Cuomo's lead shrinks to 3 percentage points, with 35% of likely Democratic voters supporting him compared to 32% for Mamdani. Gregory P. Mango 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. 'Over five months, Mamdani's support has surged from 1% to 32%, while Cuomo finishes near where he began,' said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. 6 Mamdani finally surpasses Cuomo in the eight round of the simulated ranked choice voting — 51.8% to 48.2% — in the laest poll conducted. Paul Martinka 'In the ranked-choice simulation, Mamdani gains 18 points compared to Cuomo's 12, putting him ahead in the final round for the first time in an Emerson poll.' Cuomo had led Mamdani by 12 points in the initial ballot in the Emerson poll last month and still finished up 8 points ahead of Mamdani in the 10th round of ranked choice voting at the time — 54% to 46%. Mamdani has Lander's voters to thank for his surge in the new poll. 6 Cuomo had led Mamdani by 12 points in the initial ballot in the Emerson poll last month. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post Cuomo has a 1 percentage point lead — 40.5% to 39.4% in the seventh round — when Brad Lander is eliminated with 20% of the vote. Most of Landers's voters then switch to Mamdani instead of Cuomo in round eight — putting the Democratic Socialist Queens assemblyman up by 3.6 percentage points. Lander cross-endorsed Mamdani as his preferred candidate if he himself does not prevail. The left-wing Working Families Party also urged voters not to rank Cuomo. Other polls, including a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey released last week, show Cuomo winning but Mamdani closing ground. 6 Cuomo has a 1 percentage point lead — 40.5% to 39.4% in the seventh round — when Brad Lander is eliminated with 20% of the vote. Paul Martinka The Emerson College poll asked voters if they have already cast their ballots during early voting or are waiting to vote on primary day, Tuesday. 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%. Follow The Post's coverage of the NYC Mayoral Race Cuomo leads Mamdani 36% to 31% among voters who plan to vote Tuesday. There are big differences between the men by age and race. 6 Cuomo leads Mamdani 36% to 31% among voters who plan to vote Tuesday. LP Media Voters under 50 back Mamdani by a 2 to 1 margin, while Cuomo leads among Dems ages 50 to 59 by 63% to 37% and those over age 60 by 56% to 44%. Black voters favor Cuomo 62% to 38% over Mamdani. Hispanic voters also support Cuomo 60% to 40%. But Mamdani leads among white voters 61% to 39% and among Asian voters 79% to 21%. The Ugandan-born Mamdani is Indian-American or of South Asian descent. 6 Black voters favor Cuomo 62% to 38% over Mamdani. Hispanic voters also support Cuomo 60% to 40%. Paul Martinka Cuomo leads Mamdani among voters without a four-year college degree 61% to 39%, while Mamdani leads Cuomo among college-educated voters 62% to 38%. Men support Mamdani 56% to 44%, while women lean toward Cuomo 52% to 48%. The new ranked choice poll of 729 likely Dem voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, which means the race is up for grabs. Emerson College conducted the survey by contacting voters by text on their mobile phones and by landline robocalls along with an online panel of voters. In the last poll before the 2021 Democratic primary for mayor, the Emerson College poll had Eric Adams leading Kathryn Garcia 52% to 48%. Adams won by less than 1 percentage point.
New York Post
18-06-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Gov. Hochul rips Zohran Mamdani's tax on rich, admits costs are pushing NYers to ‘Palm Beach'
Gov. Kathy Hochul shut down Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's plan to hike taxes on some New Yorkers — as she admitted high costs were pushing residents to move out of state. Hochul was asked in a TV interview if she backed Mamdani's plan to tax wealthy New Yorkers and up the corporate tax and flatly replied, 'No.' 'I'm not raising taxes at at time where affordability is the big issue,' Hochul told PIX 11. Advertisement 3 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will not raise taxes on the wealthy in an interview with Pix 11. Gabriella Bass Mamdani has said he would impose a 2% income tax on Big Apple residents who make more than $1 million a year and inflate the corporate tax from 7.25% to 11.5%, the same as New Jersey. 'I don't want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,' she said. 'We've lost enough.' Advertisement Mamdani is polling second in the crowded Democratic primary for mayor and has been closing the gap with the frontrunner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani has campaigned on promises of rent freezes on rent-controlled apartments, free buses and city-owned grocery stores. 3 Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani's tax plan hinges on collaboration with Albany to get expenses and tax hikes approved. Paul Martinka His plan to pay for it all relies on the very tax Hochul said she's not biting on, but he can't do it without Albany's approval. 'Let's be smart about this,' she said. Advertisement Many skeptics of the Queen's pol, who is now serving in the state Assemblyman, have highlighted the difficulty he will have in footing the bill for his promises. A recent scathing Op-Ed by the New York Times Editorial Board said the socialist lawmaker's policy plans ignore the 'trade-offs' required when governing. '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,' the board said. Fellow mayoral candidates Cuomo and Whitney Tilson have also jumped in to denounce Mamdani's financial plans on debate stages and in TV advertisements. At last week's debate, Cuomo asked Tilson, a former hedge fund manager, if the tax proposals laid out by Mamdani were feasible. Advertisement 3 Mamdani argues the state has desire to Increase taxes. Paul Martinka 'This all has to go through Albany; there is no appetite for what he is calling for,' Tilson responded. '(Even if it did pass) statewide, he's assuming that the legislature would just give it all (tax money) to New York City — that's truly delusional,' he argued. Mamdani defended his plan following the debate. 'You can see in the budgets of both the (state) Assembly and the Senate, a desire to increase taxes on those who can afford it, to be able to pay for a better quality of life for everyone,' he told reporters. A spokesperson for Mamdani did not respond to request for comment.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Long Island restaurant frees 110-year-old lobster weighing 21 lbs.
A Long Island lobster who's been alive for more than a century is tasting freedom this weekend thanks to the Hempstead eatery that set him free. Peter's Clam Bar owner Butch Yamali told Pix11 it was time to put the 21-pound crustacean back to the Atlantic Ocean from whence it likely came 110 years ago. 'Some of these lobsters just don't live that long, and this one did. So we figured what better way to celebrate Father's Day than by freeing Lorenzo,' said the restaurateur, who noted that Sunday is also National Lobster Day. Yamali said Lorenzo 'kind of slipped through the cracks' and wound up in his fish tank, where customers photographed themselves with the eatery's oldest resident. Hempstead Town Supervisor Don Clavin posted photos of Lorenzo's 'retirement' party on Facebook Thursday afternoon. 'After more than a decade at Peter's Clam Bar in Island Park, this local celeb is trading tank life for sea life and we couldn't be happier to give him his freedom,' he wrote. Clavin credited Legislator John Ferretti with helping give Lorenzo 'a one-way boat ride, sirens and all, to the peaceful waters of the Atlantic Beach Reef.'
Yahoo
03-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump, trashing N.J. as ‘blue horror show,' again urges support for ex-assemblyman for governor
GOP gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli and President Trump at Trump's Bedminster country club on March 21. (Courtesy of the Ciattarelli campaign) President Donald Trump urged his New Jersey supporters during a virtual rally Monday night to vote for Republican Jack Ciattarelli for governor in the June 10 GOP primary, calling Ciattarelli a 'true champion' for the Garden State. 'It's being watched actually all over the world because New Jersey's ready to pop out of that blue horror show and really get in there and vote for somebody that's going to make things happen,' Trump said. Trump's push for Ciattarelli came on the eve of the early in-person voting period for the primary, which begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. and runs through Sunday. Ciattarelli is one of five men seeking the Republican nod for governor next week. His opponents include longtime New Jersey 101.5 radio host Bill Spadea, who also competed for Trump's endorsement, and state Sen. Jon Bramnick, a Trump critic. Whoever wins the nomination on June 10 will compete against one of six Democrats in November to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat. The president said Monday that Ciattarelli has his 'complete and total endorsement.' 'Other people are going around saying I endorsed them. It's not true,' Trump said. Trump's support for Ciattarelli came even after Ciattarelli in 2015 called Trump a 'charlatan.' Appearing on Spadea's show last year, Trump said Ciattarelli 'made some very big mistakes' when Ciattarelli sought unsuccessfully to unseat Murphy in 2021. Spadea has said he was disappointed in Trump's endorsement of Ciattarelli, and has even referenced the endorsement in a recent campaign ad, telling Republican voters that 'it's OK for you to disagree with' Trump. Several polls have shown Ciattarelli with a substantial lead in the GOP primary. A May 15 Emerson College/Pix 11/The Hill poll shows Ciattarelli with 44% support compared to Spadea's 18%, with roughly a quarter of voters undecided. That poll also shows Trump has a split job approval rating in the state, with 47% approving and 47% disapproving. Trump on Monday blasted New Jersey as a sanctuary state with 'crippling regulations and rampant corruption.' Just 10 days ago, the Trump administration sued four New Jersey cities and their mayors — including two Democratic candidates for governor, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop — over their sanctuary city policies. Trump also touched on his usual rally talking points, like easing illegal immigration at the southern border, transgender issues, crime, congestion pricing, and ending the 'radical left war on suburbs.' 'New Jersey's economy will wither and die, and you'll be living in a nightmare of chaos and crime, and you sort of have that to a certain extent now. But it's going to be changed, and it's going to be changed fast with Jack,' Trump said. Ciattarelli told the president that his first executive order as governor would be ending the Immigrant Trust Directive — that's the state policy that bars law enforcement from assisting federal agents with civil immigration enforcement — and pledged that his attorney general won't sue the White House. The state's current attorney general, Matt Platkin, a Democrat, has led and joined numerous legal complaints against the Trump administration. 'I'm honored, and I will not let you down, nor will the Republicans across New Jersey,' Ciattarelli said. 'They're going to turn out in record numbers this year because we see what's going on across the state.' SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested outside ICE detention center
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on Friday outside an immigration detention center he's been protesting this week. 'The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,' interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and former Donald Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba posted on X. 'He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.' Video obtained by Axios shows Baraka and other prominent Democrats at odds with authorities outside the Delaney Hall immigration center. Witnesses told Pix11 the mayor's arrest followed his attempt to join a facility tour with three of New Jersey's congressional delegates. A confrontation reportedly began when officers blocked Baraka from entering the facility. Viri Martinez, an activist with the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, said officers 'swarmed' the mayor after pushing and shoving ensued. 'They put Baraka in handcuffs and put him in an unmarked car,' she told Pix11. The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement alleging 'a group of protestors, including two members of the U.S. House of Representatives, stormed the gate and broke into the detention facility.' Those elected officials were identified as New Jersey representatives Robert Menendez, Jr. and Bonnie Watson Coleman. Rep. LaMonica McIver was also present for what she said was an oversight visit. McIver claimed Baraka did 'nothing wrong' and was targeted by officers after following directions. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called Friday's clash a political stunt and said the department would have facilitated a tour had those involved requested one. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he was 'outraged' by Baraka's arrest and called for his immediate release by federal officers. Baraka is running to become the Garden State's next governor in November. Murphy is term-limited and can't run.
