NEW YORK — The honeymoon could also be over for Mayor Eric Adams.
A brand new ballot suggests New Yorkers like his swagger all proper, however they’re turning an enormous thumb’s down on how he is working issues.
As CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported Tuesday, falling ballot numbers are nothing new for anybody who occupies Gracie Mansion. Simply ask Invoice de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, and all the opposite mayors who preceded them.
Adams ran for mayor on the promise of creating town protected once more, however from the very starting it has confirmed to be a tough activity.
Throughout his first month on the job, an 11-month-old baby was shot in the cheek, caught within the crossfire of a Bronx gun battle, a 19-year-old Burger King employee was killed by an armed robber, and two cops had been killed, with the widow of slain Det. Jason Rivera crying over her lost love during a heart-wrenching eulogy.
“The system continued to fail us. We’re not protected anymore,” Domonique Luzuriaga mentioned again on Jan. 28.
And regardless of a bunch of recent police actions, the Adams administration has continued to be whipsawed by violence, together with the Sunset Park subway shooting, the homicide on the Q prepare, a 27-year-old was shot in the head last month.
“When is that this going to cease? When is any individual going to do one thing?” one particular person advised CBS2’s Lisa Rozner again on Could 1.
Political consultants say its no marvel {that a} new Siena Faculty ballot offers Mayor Adams a 29 % job approval ranking.
“It looks like virtually each week we’re listening to a brand new story of an harmless bystander getting killed, you recognize, in broad daylight, many instances and so I feel individuals are scared proper now. It is driving a concern and dissatisfaction proper now on how Metropolis Corridor is dealing with crime,” political guide Javier Lacayo mentioned.
The ballot numbers clearly replicate that.
- 70 % say they really feel much less protected than earlier than the pandemic
- 76 % say they care involved they are going to be a sufferer of a violent crime
But it surely’s not a complete blowout for the mayor. Many New Yorkers help key initiatives of his fledgling mayoralty.
- 85 % help extra cops on the subway
- 63 % help metallic detectors at subway entrances
- 60 % help breaking apart homeless encampments
- 67 % help preserving the Gifted and Proficient Program
- 53 % like his model
Adams insists he is going to have the ability to maintain his promise to make the streets protected.
“We will flip round this metropolis in crime. I do know that and New Yorkers are going to start out not solely being protected, they’re going to really feel protected,” Adams mentioned.
Falling ballot numbers appear to be an affliction that comes with the job. A June 2019 ballot, for instance, gave de Blasio the identical 29 % approval ranking as Adams.