Andrew Yang drops in poll as New Yorkers cast their ballots for the city's next mayor

 

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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang cast his ballot Wednesday.

Updated June 18.

Since he declared his candidacy for New York City mayor, Andrew Yang led in the polls. No more.

According to a new survey, Yang is in second place with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams atop a poll conducted by the lobbying firm Capalino & Company with the Honan Strategy Group.

Adams is the choice of 26 percent of likely Democratic voters, with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang in second place with 15 percent support.

Former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia and ex-City Hall counsel Maya Wiley are tied in third place, with 11 percent support each. The other four candidates are in single digits.

Still other surveys, such as the Marist poll released this week, place Yang in the middle of the pack

Early voting in the contest began last Saturday and will culminate on Election Day, June 22. In NYC's ranked voting, voters pick five of teh candidates in numerical order. If none of the candidates garner more than 50% -- which will likely occur -- the second and third choices will be added to their total.

The New York Post reports that tens of thousands of New Yorkers have already cast their votes: As of Wednesday, 84,132 ballots have come in through early voting, which kicked off on Saturday, according to the city Board of Elections.

“It was always going to be a very close race,” said Chris Coffey, a Yang co-campaign manager, in a phone interview with the Gotham Gazette. He also noted that the campaign’s internal numbers on early voting are positive. 

“We think we're winning in early voting based on who has voted, and identify them as Yang voters as they have been for a long time,” he said. “We think we're winning in early voting. Does that mean we're gonna win the entire election? I don’t know. But I don't at all accept that we are where Marist has us.”