CYN IN CUO’S DUST

Andy’s lead up to 36 points

Gov. Cuomo has widened his already-huge lead over Democratic challenger Cynthia Nixon, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Quinnipiac University survey showed the two-term incumbent pummeling his rival, 59 percent to 23 percent, compared with a 50to-28 percent divide in the same poll May 2.

Nixon has indicated that she won’t play “spoiler” by continuing her campaign on the Working Families Party line in the general election campaign if she loses the Democratic primary in September.

The poll found that even if she stayed in the race, Cuomo would still win, with 43 percent of the vote to Republican Marc Molinaro’s 23 percent and Nixon’s 13 percent.

“New Yorkers say they want a gubernatorial candidate with experience in politics . . . Nonwhite voters and women, in particular, lead the charge in that preference,” said Quinnipiac polling analyst Mary Snow.

“A significant percentage of voters say they haven’t heard enough about . . . Cuomo’s two main rivals . . . Molinaro and . . . Nixon, to give them a thumbs-up or -down. That is also helping Gov. Cuomo.”

Nixon’s campaign pointed out that the survey measured registered voters, not the “likely voters” most certain to go to the polls Sept. 13.

“Polls of registered voters clearly aren’t capturing the kind of Democrats who have been turning out to vote . . . [Rep.] Joe Crowley’s poll had him up by 35 points. He lost by 15,” Nixon’s campaign said, referring to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Crowley in Queens.

In one sour note for the governor, his job-approval rating dropped to 49 percent, from 54 percent in May’s Quinnipiac poll.