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Fallen ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo is getting much more support than Mayor Eric Adams in a hypothetical head-to-head Democratic primary race for City Hall in 2025, a stunning new poll released Tuesday claims.

Of those Democrats with an opinion, 44% favored Cuomo to 24% for Adams with one-third undecided, according to the survey conducted by American Pulse & Research Polling.

Cuomo led Adams among all racial groups and especially among women.

“Our American Pulse survey revealed what I found to be a big surprise: If Andrew Cuomo ran as a Democrat for mayor, he would decisively trounce Mayor Adams in a primary,” said Dustin Olson of American Pulse Research & Polling.

“While surprising, it does make sense, as New Yorkers also gave Mayor Adams the distinction of being the most unfavorably viewed politician among all those we tested in the city.”

A recent Marist poll also found Adams’ popularity had nose-dived amid the migrant crisis, an FBI fundraising probe and proposed budget cuts.


  A new poll found that Andrew Cuomo would defeat Eric Adams in a Democratic primary. James Messerschmidt A new poll found that Andrew Cuomo would defeat Eric Adams in a Democratic primary. James Messerschmidt

  Adams was the most unfavorably rated politician in the poll. J. Messerschmidt for NY Post Adams was the most unfavorably rated politician in the poll. J. Messerschmidt for NY Post

The poll — which was paid for by a group headed by Adams’ 2021 GOP opponent, Curtis Sliwa — also found that 57% of all voters had a favorable impression of lefty Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the highest of elected officials mentioned in the poll, while Adams had the worst unfavorable rating of 58%.

But the exiled ex-governor — who resigned from office in 2021 amid accusations of sexual misconduct — would lose were he to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a Democratic primary the next year, the survey said. 

In that match-up, 49% of Democrats preferred Gillibrand — who is up for re-election next year — to 35% for Cuomo in a Senate primary match-up.

Gillibrand clobbers Cuomo by more than 40 percentage points among white Democrats, while the former thrice-elected governor and former state attorney general led to a lesser extent among black and Hispanic voters.  

Cuomo has upped his public profile this year as he attempts to claw his way back to relevancy — hosting a podcast, speaking at churches and political clubs.

On Sunday, he was spotted having lunch at Junior’s restaurant with former Brooklyn Democratic leader Frank Seddio, a source who forwarded a photo of the two said. 

Meanwhile, the poll found 40% of voters oppose “illegal immigration and [believe] New Yorker tax dollars should be spent on New Yorkers, not for housing undocumented migrants.” It also found that 35% support a candidate who supports New York as a sanctuary city.

The survey conducted 417 interviews via live and automated phone calls and text/web online responses from Nov. 30 to Dec.1, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points.

A group called Save the Senate, chaired by Sliwa and aimed at bolstering the GOP in the US Senate, helped finance the poll.

The Adams campaign slammed the poll as a partisan job that involved his 2021 GOP rival, Sliwa.

 “This is a poll paid for by a group headed by Mayor Adams’ Trump-supporting Republican opponent in the last election, who opposes the Mayor’s efforts to help working families, reduce crime and protect a woman’s right to choose,” said Adams campaign pollster Ben Tulchin.

 “It’s simply not credible,” the Adams rep said.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Cuomo referred The Post to recent comments made by the former governor defending Adams, and dodging a question on whether he would run for City Hall if Adams doesn’t seek re-election.

“I have not heard anything that would suggest that Mayor Adams has done anything serious,” Cuomo said on Fox 5’s Good Day New York.https://www.fox5ny.com/video/1311278

Cuomo said “we should stand with the mayor” absent evidence of wrongdoing.

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