Evan Roth Smith talks to ABC7 about Slingshot’s December mayoral poll

Slingshot founding partner Evan Roth Smith spoke to ABC7 about the firm’s ground-shaking poll which showed Mayor Eric Adams' approval rating a record low 28% and detailed the early race to succeed him. 

"One of the possibilities here is a potential indictment of the mayor," Roth Smith said. "We wanted to see how voters would react to something like that, right?"

The survey, conducted by the political consulting firm Slingshot Strategies for themselves, immediately came under attack by Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy.

"When political opportunists can't win at the ballot box or in a court of law, they try to win in the court of public opinion by spreading lies," Levy said. "Mayor Adams was voted into office to fight for working New Yorkers -- and he will keep fighting for them as mayor no matter what any wildly skewed polls or his political opponents say, and no matter what other arrow of injustice is aimed his way. Attempting to tear down the city's second black mayor for blatant political purposes is shameful."

Read the full ABC7 story here.