According to a new poll, the approval of Governor Andrew Cuomo is favorable ratings and re-election numbers among New Yorkers, because the three-term Democratic governor is facing a chorus to act amid numerous allegations from former staff members and a federal investigation into whether his administration covered the deaths of nursing homes due to the coronavirus.
Only 40% of New Yorkers have a favorable opinion of Cuomo in a poll from Siena College released on Monday, while 52% said they see their governor in an unfavorable light. It drops from 43% -45% in March and 56% -39% in February.
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Cuomo’s performance in the poll, which was conducted from 11 to 15 April, stands at 42% approval and 56% disapproval. It drops from 46% -52% in March and 51% -47% in February.
But a majority of New Yorkers – 51% -37% – say Cuomo should not resign, which is basically unchanged from a month ago. And with a margin of 52% -38%, they say he can do his job as governor effectively, up from 48% -34% in March.
“Voters for Andrew Cuomo: ‘We have good news and bad news.’ On the one hand, its rate of favoritism is now the lowest it has ever been, with more than 50% of voters favoring Cuomo for the first time in a poll at Siena College, and on the other hand, a majority of “the voters – including Democrats. by two-to-one and a number of independents – continue to say that Cuomo should not resign, and a similar majority say he can still do his job as governor effectively,” Steven Greenberg said. , the polling officer of Siena College, stressed.
According to the poll, 60% of New Yorkers agree with the task Cuomo is doing in dealing with the pandemic. But with a margin of 44% -22%, they think the governor committed sexual harassment, with just over a third not deciding. Last month, voters with a margin of 35% -24% thought Cuomo had committed sexual harassment, with just over four in ten.
More than 135 state lawmakers and nearly the entire New York congressional delegation – including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – have urged Cuomo to resign.
Cuomo resisted the calls because he still stressed that people should wait until the outcome of the Attorney General’s investigation before making a decision and ruling. Although he apologized for making some women uncomfortable, he denied ever touching a woman improperly.
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“Women have the right to come forward and be heard, and I fully encourage that. But I also want to be clear, there is still a question of truth; I did not do what was claimed. Period , “he told a news conference early last month.
“There are often many motivations to make a statement and therefore you need to know the facts before making a decision,” he added, adding that those who called on him to resign were “reckless and dangerous”. .
The governor and his office also pushed back the allegations of the nursing homes’ deaths and denied that the death rate of the nursing home had been changed.
Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 during a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination in Belmont Park in Elmont, NY
(AP Photo / Mary Altaffer, Pool)
New York does not have the government’s limits, and Cuomo announced in May 2019 that he would participate in the steering of the state for a fourth term in 2022. At the beginning of this year, he had a large cash of $ 16.8 million in his campaign.
While New York is a trusted blue state – Cuomo won the third term re-election in 2018 by 23 points – the governor has been politically seriously injured by the two scandals. Cuomo, who initially received national praise from Democrats and the media last year for his efforts to fight the pandemic, is also facing a state legislative inquiry that could potentially lead to accusations.
Only a third of those polled in the poll say they are willing to re-elect Cuomo if he is elected next year, and 57% prefer ‘someone else’. The governor’s support for re-election fell from 34% -52% in March and 46% -45% in February.
Greenberg stressed that Cuomo’s favoritism, job performance and re-election numbers ‘interesting’ that since February on all three measures there has been virtually no movement among Republicans who have had Cuomo at very low levels. There was a significant downward movement by independents and the biggest drop was among the Democrats. ‘
Earlier this month, GOP president Lee Zeldin announced a 2022 Republican government challenge against Cuomo. According to the poll, Zeldin has a favorable / unfavorable rating of 18% -17%, while two-thirds of voters do not know enough about the conservative congressman from the eastern half of Long Island to form an opinion.
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Minutes after the announcement of the Siena survey, Zeldin said in a statement that ‘this latest poll confirms what I heard from New Yorkers across our country – Cuomo’s Gotta Go, and it will require a new generation of leadership to gain. the work done. ‘
The Siena College Poll uses direct telephone operators to interview 801 registered voters in New York State. The general sampling error of the survey is plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.