Majority says Eric Adams should resign as NYC mayor: Survey
Most New York City voters say embattled Mayor Eric Adams, who is campaigning for a second term, should resign from office, according to a new poll.
The Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday found 56 percent of voters want Adams, a Democrat who is embroiled in a federal corruption probe, to immediately step down, while 35 percent said he should stay.
The results were split along party lines. More than 70 percent of Democrats polled said he should resign, while 68 percent of Republicans said that he should remain in office.
Adams, who was elected mayor in 2021, has faced dozens of calls for his resignation from fellow Democrats since he was indicted last year on federal charges of bribery, wire fraud and solicitation of illegal campaign donations. He has denied any wrongdoing.
The case is on an indefinite hold, and the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has signaled that the charges could be dropped. After President Trump's successful 2024 campaign, Adams began working with the new administration on immigration issues. He notably appeared alongside Trump’s border czar Tom Homan on “Fox and Friends” in January to plug the joint effort.
About 73 percent of voters surveyed in the latest poll said they are following developments in the corruption case. Just 13 percent of New Yorkers said they believe Adams did nothing legally or ethically wrong.
Quinnipiac’s poll also found Adams’ approval rating is at a record low, with just 20 percent of voters in support of the way he is handling his job as mayor. Sixty-seven percent disapprove, and 13 percent had no opinion.
It’s the lowest job approval rating of any New York City mayor in the nearly three decades that Quinnipiac's pollsters have been surveying New York City voters – besting the previous record low also from Adams in December 2023.
The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,260 New York City voters from Feb. 27 to March 3. It has a margin of error of 2.8 percentage points. The margin of error for results limited to the 771 self-identified registered Democrats has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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