Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew, leads GOP rival Rep. Lee Zeldin by eight factors within the race to tackle scandal-scarred three-term Democratic incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo subsequent yr, based on a ballot commissioned by Giuliani’s marketing campaign.
The survey outcomes of 587 Republicans statewide, carried out by Triton Polling & Analysis on June 24-25 and offered to The Publish, exhibits Giuliani with the backing of 35.2 % of Republicans in comparison with 27.2 % for Zeldin — an eight level lead — with 6 % help for one more candidate and 31.6 % of voters undecided.
The survey, carried out through automated calls on landlines to probably Republican voters, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 proportion factors.
Andrew Giuliani, who served as a White Home aide to former President Donald Trump, for whom his father has served as a private lawyer. He carried out the ballot to problem what seems to be just like the Republican Get together management’s coronation of the Lengthy Island congressman Zeldin to be the get together’s nominee.
Get together leaders from throughout the state are assembly in Albany Monday to conduct a “straw ballot” on their choice for governor.
Greater than 30 Republican Get together county leaders have already endorsed Zeldin and his marketing campaign mentioned he already has the weighted get together vote to be chosen the GOP’s most popular candidate.
However Giuliani on Sunday instructed The Publish, “An important voices within the public course of are the three.4 million registered Republicans. We’re the individuals’s candidate.”
“Let the registered Republicans resolve the nomination, not a couple of Republican leaders in a backroom in Albany,” he added, “I feel I’m the strongest candidate to defeat Cuomo and take the state again.”
An rebel should get at the very least 25 % of the get together’s weighed vote at subsequent yr’s get together conference to qualify for poll standing to take part in a main.
Absent that, a candidate must spend cash to gather voters’ signatures from throughout the state to earn poll standing to run in a main.
Giuliani mentioned he’s keen to petition voters to get on the poll, if vital.
He mentioned Republican leaders are “overreacting” after failing to land a candidate till late within the course of to run towards Cuomo in 2018. Cuomo handily defeated GOP nominee Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County government, 59 % to 37 %, in that contest.
The survey exhibits Zeldin main handily within the congressional districts in his dwelling base in Lengthy Island’s Suffolk and Nassau Counties.
However Giuliani led by 20 factors within the metropolis’s strongest Republican space, the eleventh congressional district taking in Staten Island and southern Brooklyn, and was forward in upstate congressional districts, the place voters could also be extra aware of the Giuliani identify at this level than Zeldin.
Zeldin’s marketing campaign pollster John McLaughlin dismissed the Giuliani survey as rubbish as a result of it doesn’t cowl the large variety of voters who use cell telephones.
“This isn’t a ballot,” McLaughlin mentioned. “Giuliani is just not being trustworthy with the Republican county leaders by placing out these robocall outcomes earlier than their assembly.”
The Giuliani marketing campaign survey additionally didn’t point out one other declared candidate whereas querying Republican voters — former Westchester County Government Rob Astorino, the 2014 GOP nominee for governor.
