A New York Occasions/Siena School ballot has Vice-President Harris polling on the lowest numbers for a Democratic presidential nominee in a long time.
It comes simply hours earlier than former president Donald Trump is scheduled to carry a historic rally at Madison Sq. Backyard the place he’s anticipated to re-iterate that he’s making a long-shot play for the state’s 28 electoral faculty votes.
The brand new ballot, launched Saturday morning, exhibits Harris main Trump by 66% to 27% amongst registered voters, nonetheless a considerable lead however a serious decline judging by President Biden’s 76% to 23% win over Trump within the deep blue metropolis in 2020.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to reporters in Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh)
If it held, it could symbolize the worst exhibiting for a Democratic presidential candidate within the metropolis since 1988, in keeping with The New York Occasions.
The highest three points affecting registered voters within the ballot are the economic system, adopted by immigration and abortion.
Town has battled a number of crises over the previous couple of years and continues to be reeling from the consequences of its COVID-19 period lockdowns.
New York Metropolis has the very best median month-to-month hire for one-bedrooms out of 100 cities, in keeping with rental market platform Zumper.
Town continues to accommodate tens of hundreds of migrants with spending on the disaster anticipated to exceed $5 billion, and Mayor Eric Adams has beforehand stated prices might balloon to over $10 billion by the tip of subsequent fiscal yr.
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In the meantime, New York Metropolis Mayor Adams’ administration can be in disaster mode after he was indicted final month on bribery and corruption fees whereas New York Gov. Kathy Hochul carried out weakly within the 2022 governor’s race, successful by solely 6 factors.
Former President Trump will maintain a rally in New York Metropolis on Sunday as he seems to be to make vital beneficial properties within the Large Apple. (Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)
Within the midterm elections, Democratic candidates for the Home gained the state’s standard vote by solely 9 proportion factors on common, per the Occasions, in contrast with Biden’s roughly 23-point victory in 2020. Biden took New York state by 60.87% to Trump’s garnering 37.74%, a 1% acquire for the previous president in comparison with 2016.
The Democrats’ battle for Home management within the midterms arguably ran by means of New York, with the get together shedding 4 seats, together with a number of in Democratic-leaning districts.
Trump has made nationwide beneficial properties amongst Black, Hispanic and youthful voters, and he’s searching for to faucet into this demographic together with his rally on Sunday.
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Migrants attain for meals outdoors the Roosevelt Resort in Manhattan. Immigration is a prime challenge amongst New York Metropolis voters. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Photographs)
He additionally visited a Bronx barbershop earlier this week and in Could held a rally within the borough too which had a allow allowance of three,500 folks. The New York Submit reported the Bronx rally drew as much as 10,000 supporters.
The ballot was carried out from Oct. 20 to Oct. 23 with pollsters talking with 853 voters in New York Metropolis. General, greater than 98 p.c of respondents had been contacted on a cellphone and the ballot has a margin of error of three.9%
A nationwide New York Occasions/Siena School ballot has the 2 candidates deadlocked at 48% every.
