Democratic mayoral primary winner and state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is barely leading the pack of candidates to potentially govern New York City in a new poll released Tuesday. The survey shows he is in a statistical tie with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa after previously landing positive polls on the heels of his primary win.

Even with the new poll being heavily skewed when surveying voters to try to help boost Eric Adams’ numbers and tarnish others, the mayor failed to garner much support, much to the chagrin of

In the weeks since the primary, several prominent donors who had been supportive of Cuomo pledged their support to Adams in the general election, including billionaire hedge-fund managers Dan Loeb and Bill Ackman, both of whom have become so entwined with the Adams operation that they have helped vet campaign hires.

State Rep. Zohran Mamdani has overcome former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a new ranked choice poll released on the eve of New York’s Democratic mayoral primary. Mamdani leads Cuomo by 4 percentage ...

But the results of the Honan Strategy poll raise questions about this plan to back for Mr. Adams. The poll shows Messrs. Cuomo and Mamdani tying at 39 percent each in a five-way race. Mr. Adams earns 13 percent and Mr. Sliwa gets 7 percent in this scenario. An independent candidate, attorney Jim Walden, earns zero percent, with 2 percent undecided.

An Emerson College–PIX 11 poll shows Mamdani winning over Cuomo by 52 percent to 48 percent in the eighth round of a ranked-choice voting simulation.