Mamdani’s Approval Rating Is More Impressive Than It Looks |
As he clears the 100-day mark of his unprecedented mayoralty, just how popular is Zohran Mamdani?
New polls from Marist College and Emerson College offer a window into the support the 34-year-old socialist enjoys as well as enough fodder for his detractors. Marist found that 48 percent of New Yorkers approved of Mamdani’s job performance, while 30 percent disapproved. (Twenty-three percent were unsure.) Fifty-six percent of New Yorkers said things were moving in the right direction, compared with 43 percent who said they were moving in the wrong direction, a huge jump from October when Eric Adams was mayor: Only 31 percent were optimistic about the city at that point.
Mamdani’s favorability rating in the survey was higher, clocking in at 55 percent. Thirty-three percent of respondents, meanwhile, said they had a somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable view of the new mayor.
Emerson’s approval numbers weren’t dramatically different. Mamdani had a 43-27 split, with a plurality approving of his job performance. Asking whether the city was on the “right or wrong” track, Emerson did find more negativity — 59 percent for “wrong” and 41 percent for “right.”
As Mamdani critics like the New York Post gleefully pointed out, the Marist job-approval numbers are weaker than Eric Adams’s at around this point in his first and only term.........