Slingshot poll: If Eric Adams resigned, Andrew Cuomo would lead pack of potential successors

Politico’s Joe Anuta cited our December 2023 poll of the potential NYC mayoral field if Mayor Eric Adams resigns. Mayor Adams’ press team had personally responded to the poll soon after it was publicly released.

While Adams’ approval numbers are better than the Quinnipiac poll earlier this week, the results from Slingshot reflect similar findings — undercutting attempts from City Hall to paint the Quinnipiac results as misleading.

Slingshot, for example, found a low job approval rating among Hispanic voters, who were crucial to the mayor’s 2021 coalition. Only 35 percent of those surveyed approved of the job the mayor was doing, compared to 55 percent who disapproved.

Those numbers were on par with white voters and those who identified as “other.”

Half of Hispanic voters also said Adams should be removed from office by the governor if he is indicted — the only racial subgroup to tilt toward expulsion.

Meanwhile, just 29 percent of Asian voters — another group heavily wooed by the Adams camp ahead of his successful 2021 win — approved of his job performance, compared to 62 percent who disapproved.

Adams also had low support with voters age 55 and older — a crucial demographic within the Democratic Party.

A Slingshot representative said no one commissioned the private survey. Last month, Slingshot’s Evan Roth Smith made waves when he flagged on X a different poll assessing Cuomo’s chances in a mayoral run. He wrote he was “highly confident” that Cuomo had ordered the survey.

Read the full Politico story here.