which is down from 20 points in February.<\/a><\/p>\nHochul\u2019s favorability eating, 45-42%, is little changed from last month, as is her job approval rating, which is 52-40%. Blakeman still remains unknown to many voters, with 64% of poll respondents saying they never heard of him or don\u2019t know enough to have an opinion on the Republican lawmaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cInterestingly, Hochul\u2019s standing with New Yorkers is essentially the same as last month \u2013 a small plurality views her favorably, and a small majority approves of the job she\u2019s doing as governor \u2013 as is Blakeman\u2019s, yet the race between the two has tightened a little,\u201d Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said. \u201cThree-quarters of Democrats continue to support Hochul, and more than three-quarters of Republicans continue to support Blakeman, but now independents favor Blakeman by seven points, after siding with Hochul by five points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greenberg added that Hochul maintains a very narrow lead in the upstate region and the downstate suburbs while her lead in New York City fell from 46 points to 29 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that movement or merely noise? Let\u2019s see what happens next month after the budget and as the campaign unfolds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
When it comes to the other statewide offices on the ballot this fall, state Attorney General Letitia James has a41-30% favorability rating and 46% of voters say the would reelect her. State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, nearly 20 years in office, has a 20-15% favorability rating, with 65% saying they\u2019ve never heard of him or don\u2019t know enough about him. Twenty-nine percent of voters are prepared to reelect him.<\/p>\n
The poll found bipartisan groups of voters do support various legislative items. A 64-25% majority supports keeping New York state legislative terms at two years, rather than making those terms four years. A majority also wants to remove restriction and make it easier to buy pepper spray.<\/p>\n
\u201cA strong majority of New Yorkers also say that pepper spray should be easier to buy \u2013 currently, only available from certain pharmacies and gun stores \u2013 including 65% of independents, 62% of Republicans and 53% of Democrats,\u201d Greenberg said. \u201cMen, women and voters upstate and downstate agree.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the national front, a clear majority of New Yorkers support voters having to show proof of citizenship when registering and photo ID when they vote. Although Democrats oppose 55-36%, 82% of Republicans and 63% of independents support it. In addition, 65% of New Yorkers want the president to be required to get congressional approval to wage war, the poll found, including 51% of Republicans, 74% of Democrats and 61% of independents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRepublicans (62%) support continuing President Trump\u2019s tariff policies, while 60% of New Yorkers oppose continuing those policies, including 82% of Democrats and 54% of independents,\u201d Greenberg said. \u201cBy a similar 57-25%, voters oppose taking actions against media and journalists critical of the President or his policies. More than two-thirds of Democrats oppose, as do 59% of independents; a 40-33% plurality of Republicans support it.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the poll, a plurality of 40-33% support ending the U.S. Senate filibuster. Democrats are closely divided while 47% of Republicans and 41% of independents support its elimination.<\/p>\n
As for the president himself, Donald Trump has a 35-62% favorability rating among New York voters, little changed from last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the last year, Trump has been viewed favorably by between 32% and 40% of voters, while between 34% and 42% have approved of the job he\u2019s doing. New Yorkers are pretty locked in on their view of Trump; nothing seems to move the numbers out of its narrow band,\u201d Greenberg said.<\/p>\n
The poll was conducted March 23-26 among 804 registered New York voters and has an overall margin of error of +\/- 4.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to lead Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in this year\u2019s race for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,257,270,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-180648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-luke-parsnow","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}