Cuomo leads Molinaro by 22 points, poll finds
Twoterm incumbent Andrew Cuomo holds a wide lead over challenger Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, in the race for New York governor, according to a poll released Monday.
The Siena Poll shows Democrat Cuomo with 50 percent support to Republican Molinaro’s 28 percent.
Working Families Party candidate Cynthia Nixon, who lost a Democratic primary to Cuomo, has 10 percent support, and the other three minor-party candidates — Howie Hawkins, Stephanie Miner and Larry Sharpe — received combined support of 4 percent, with 8 percent still undecided, Siena said.
The poll found Cuomo leads Molinaro by 61 points in New York City and by 24 points in its donwstate suburbs. Upstate, Cuomo leads by a slim margin of just 2 points.
The Molinaro campaign said in a statement emailed to media Monday that “we reject the Siena College poll as part of Andrew Cuomo’s corrupt rigged system.”
The poll also found that U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., holds a 61-29 percent lead over her little-known Republican opponent, Chele Chiavacci Farley. Additionally, Siena said, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli leads Republican Jonathan Trichter 58-26 percent; while in the race for attorney general, where these is no incumbent, Democrat Tish James, New York City’s public advocate, leads Republican Keith Wofford, 50-36 percent.
The poll was conducted Sept. 20-27 by phone, in English, to 701 likely voters. The margin of error is 3.9 percentage points.