Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, the second-highest rating elected official within the metropolis, rolled out his endorsements for the mayoral and comptroller races final week.
“I’m very involved for a Cuomo mayoralty — bringing again one thing that didn’t work the primary time and needed to depart to switch one thing that’s not working now,” mentioned Williams. “It’s not what we must be doing, and we’ve wonderful leaders on this metropolis who by no means left. They’ve been doing the work, on the bottom. They’re what New York wants.”
With the town’s ranked alternative voting (RCV) system, voters can rank as much as 5 candidates so as of desire. If no candidate secures greater than 50% of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eradicated, and people votes are redistributed primarily based on voters’ subsequent preferences. This course of continues till a winner is said.
Williams introduced that his technique is to rank his long-time pal Comptroller Brad Lander and Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as his prime decisions on this 12 months’s mayoral bid to switch incumbent Mayor Eric Adams. Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani could be his third alternative, adopted by State Senator Zellnor Myrie and former Comptroller Scott Stringer as fourth and fifth decisions. There are 11 candidates formally on the poll for the first on June 24.
“As the highest two picks, Brad Lander and Adrienne Adams characterize the strongest management New Yorkers can rally behind. Each have ruled with imaginative and prescient, transparency, and deep compassion for working households throughout the 5 boroughs,” mentioned Williams.
Lander and Williams are recognized to be longtime associates and colleagues in authorities since their days on the Metropolis Council collectively, going again to 2009. They co-wrote the Neighborhood Security Act, aiming to finish discriminatory stop-and-frisk insurance policies; established an inspector basic for the NYPD; and labored to finish solitary confinement in jails, amongst different issues.
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“For years, Jumaane and I’ve fought alongside one another to ship prison justice, residing wages, safer streets, and public transit for all,” mentioned Lander in a press release. “I’m honored to have his assist for mayor, which provides to our robust, extensive coalition of supporters from each nook of the town who need sincere, efficient management again in Metropolis Corridor.”
In the meantime, in response to the newest spherical of matching funds from the New York Metropolis Marketing campaign Finance Board (NYCCFB) on Could 30, Speaker Adams scored a serious payout of about $2 million ($2,004,819). Williams considers her a worthy candidate.
“The assist of New Yorkers in such a brief window is a transparent signal of the vitality and enthusiasm behind Adrienne’s marketing campaign,” mentioned her spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina in a press release. “Adrienne is in it for us.”
Wanting strictly at numbers, 35% of voters nonetheless assist former Governor Andrew Cuomo within the first spherical of the poll whereas 23% assist Mamdani for mayor, in response to Could polling from Emerson Faculty Polling/PIX11/The Hill. Cuomo’s strongest assist nonetheless comes from Black voters, these over 50 years previous, and ladies. Mamdani holds an edge amongst white voters, these beneath 50 years previous, and college-educated voters.
“Cuomo has led within the polls since early 2025, however Mamdani has surged, gaining 23 factors and successful second-choice votes practically 2-to-1, reducing Cuomo’s ranked-choice lead from 12 factors to 9 factors,” mentioned Emerson’s govt director Spencer Kimball in a press release. “With 4 weeks to go, the query is whether or not Cuomo can run out the clock, or if he must win over second-choice voters to carry off Mamdani’s momentum.”
About 11% assist Lander, 9% Stringer, 8% Speaker Adams, and 5% Myrie, mentioned Emerson.
Although Mamdani continues to carry his place as a powerful second contender within the race, simply behind Cuomo, Williams defined that “by rating Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zohran Mamdani, Zellnor Myrie, and Scott Stringer throughout all 5 out there slots, voters can guarantee their ballots proceed to depend towards a progressive candidate even when their best choice is eradicated.”
Williams mentioned in a press release that “Leaving Andrew Cuomo off the poll solely means he can not obtain a vote from that poll in any spherical, making it much less seemingly he advances as different candidates are eradicated.”
Cuomo was just lately denied one other $675,000 in public matching funds by NYCCFB due to a perception that his mayoral marketing campaign had illicitly coordinated with a brilliant political motion committee (PAC), reported the New York Occasions. He was additionally fined $622,056 two weeks in the past over a business the PAC aired on his behalf.
Williams additionally endorsed Metropolis Councilmember Justin Brannan on this 12 months’s comptroller race, citing Brannan’s management in standing as much as Mayor Adams’s price range cuts as one of many causes for his assist.
“Justin is aware of combat and win in opposition to the highly effective and corrupt, and has led the cost in opposition to Mayor Adams and his austerity budgets by defending afterschool applications, early childhood training, our parks, and libraries,” mentioned Williams. “Justin has all the time taken daring positions in a district the place it might’ve been a lot simpler to run from them. With democracy on the road in Washington, Justin is the comptroller we’d like who will get up and combat again for New York Metropolis.”There are 4 folks on the poll for comptroller.
