Eric Adams' Approval Nosedives To Record Low For NYC Mayor: New Poll
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NEW YORK CITY — Eric Adams may boast swagger, but his latest poll numbers are seriously haggard.
In fact, Adams has the worst approval rating of a New York City mayor since 1996, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
New York City voters gave Adams a negative 28 to 58 percent job approval rating.
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“There’s no good news for Mayor Adams in this poll,” said Mary Snow, assistant director for Quinnipiac University polls.
“Not only are voters giving him poor grades on the job he’s doing at City Hall, their views on his character have dimmed.”
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The poll’s finding that Adams just isn’t getting stuff done for New Yorkers is only the latest bad news for the increasingly beleaguered mayor.
Hizzoner faces a high-profile FBI investigation into his campaign’s fundraising and ties to Turkey, a lawsuit from a woman accusing him of sexual assault in 1993, lingering concerns over how he has handled the migrant crisis and a fresh spate of criticism over drastic cuts to important services such as libraries.
And it appears those scandals and deep-rooted criticisms have affected city dwellers’ view of him, or at least the roughly 1,300 self-identified registered voters polled by Quinnipiac.
Twenty-two percent of voters, when asked about the federal investigation, said they believe Adams did something illegal, the poll found. Another 30 percent said they believe he did something unethical but nothing illegal.
Only 20 percent said they believe he didn’t do anything wrong, according to the poll.
Voters polled were roughly split on whether Adams’ strong denial that he sexually assaulted anyone was truthful. The poll found 35 percent think he was truthful, 32 percent think he wasn’t truthful and 33 percent offering no opinion.
Adams, a Democrat, fared poorly among voters in his own party, with those polled giving a negative 35 to 49 percent job approval rating, the poll found.
Quinnipiac offered this breakdown of how voters responded when asked about Mayor Adams’ handling of specific issues:
“Generally, there’s not many things New Yorkers agree on,” Snow said in a statement. “But they are in sync on a number of issues facing the city right now, including worrying about how the mayor’s budget cuts will affect their day to day lives. When it comes to a solution, all but Republicans and Staten Island voters support raising taxes on the city’s wealthiest residents.”
Adams’ only positive rating in the poll came from Black voters, who approved of his job 48 to 38 percent.
His overall approval rating beat a low mark set 20 years ago, according to the poll.
“Before today, the previous low was a negative 31 – 60 percent job approval rating for Mayor Bloomberg in July 2003,” the poll states.
Read the full poll here.
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