Zohran Mamdani leads by about 20 points. Eric Adams did not have nearly that level of support.
It seems that NYC has chosen the form of its destructor.
Mayor Eric Adams' decision to drop his re-election bid provides a boost to Andrew Cuomo in the race for City Hall, but not nearly enough to topple mayoral front-runner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, pollsters and campaign strategists said.
Before his Sunday announcement, Adams was polling in the high single digits -- not enough alone to change the trajectory of the race, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion.
The mayor received 9% support in Marist's poll released earlier this month, a distant fourth behind Mamdani, Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
There are too few Adams voters to shift elsewhere to make a dramatic difference.
"It gives Cuomo a boost -- but it's not enough," Miringoff told The Post.
Slingshot Strategies' founding partner Evan Roth Smith, who is also a lead pollster for Blueprint, echoed Miringoff's point.
"There just aren't enough Adams voters out there to go somewhere new," Smith said.
"So all said, it's probably worth a couple points for Andrew Cuomo, but Andrew Cuomo needs way more than a couple points to catch up to Zohran."
Zohran Mamdani will, of course, make it so onerous to live in NYC that anyone who can flee, will flee. The city's tax base will depart, and the city will be left with Mamdani's trillion dollars of spending and thimble-full of tax revenue.
I think the entire plan is to bankrupt the city and then demand that the federal government bail them out. The real plan of socialism is always to pirate away other people's money.
But Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that Mamdani will get no bailout from the US.
And he uses a line from the 70s, when a bankrupt NYC demanded a bailout from the accidental president Gerry Ford.
U.S. Treasury's Bessent message to NYC on any bailout: 'Drop dead'
The Trump administration will not bail out New York City in any financial crisis if Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani follows through with his plans, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday.
"I guarantee you - and there are not a lot of things in life that are sure - that New York City will be coming to the federal government for a bailout if the Mamdani plans are implemented," Bessent said in an interview with Fox Business Network.
Asked if he would give the city a bailout under those circumstances, Bessent said, "It will be the same thing that Gerald Ford said: 'Drop dead.'"
While former President Ford never actually said those words, a New York tabloid headline used the phrase to capture the moment in 1975 when the Republican president refused to bail out New York as it was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Mamdani's office did not immediately return a request for comment on Bessent's remarks.
Below, Bessent's remarks made to Maria Bartiromo. Bessent notes that NYC already saw the greatest flight of capital in history, from Manhattan to Palm Beach County, under "Red" diBlasio.
I'm worried about Trump overruling Bessent. Trump has billions of dollars of NYC real estate which will be devastated by a collapsing NYC. Plus, he really likes the city. It's his home (more or less, I know he's in Palm Beach now).