{"id":239931,"date":"2026-05-21T23:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239931\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:10:24","slug":"brad-lander-leads-rep-dan-goldman-by-34-margin-in-new-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239931\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Lander leads Rep. Dan Goldman by 34% margin in new poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Lander leads Rep. Dan Goldman by a huge 34% margin in a new independent poll of their Democratic primary race<\/a> in the NY-10 district spanning lower Manhattan and a chunk of Brooklyn, while two other high-profile NYC congressional races are too close to call.<\/p>\n

The former city comptroller and mayoral candidate swamps Goldman by an overwhelming 57%-23% margin<\/a> in the Emerson College poll of 450 Democratic voters conducted for the WPIX television station, a shocking advantage over the two-term incumbent.<\/p>\n

The survey suggests Lander, who is running as a progressive with support of Mayor Mamdani, is running away with the contest<\/a> with just over a month to go before the June 23 primary.<\/p>\n

The poll showed much tighter races in two other contentious Democratic congressional primary races<\/a> for seats left open by the planned retirements of longtime representatives Jerry Nadler and Nydia Velazquez.<\/p>\n

Assemblyman Micah Lasher leads Assemblyman Alex Bores by a 22%-20% margin in the fight to replace Nadler in the NY-12 district<\/a> covering the Upper West Side and Upper East Side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, who led some earlier polls,<\/a> trails with 11%, while conservative lawyer George Conway has 10%.<\/p>\n

In the NY-07 district spanning northern Brooklyn and western Queens, Assemblywoman\u00a0 Claire Valdez holds a narrow edge<\/a> over Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.<\/p>\n

Valdez, a first-term lawmaker who has the backing of Mamdani, leads Reynoso by a 23%-21% margin, with Councilwoman Julie Won trailing with 13%.<\/p>\n

The poll showed strong support for Mamdani among Democrats in all three deep-blue districts<\/a>, with his approval rating ranging from 66% in NY-12 to 78% in NY-10.<\/p>\n

The narrow leads for Lasher and Valdez track with the conventional wisdom among political analysts about the state of play in those races.<\/p>\n

But the size of the lead for Lander is likely to send shockwaves through the political establishment<\/a>, most of which lined up behind Goldman, including Gov. Hochul and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.<\/p>\n

The poll of NY-10 showed 20% of voters undecided and a 4.5% margin of error.<\/p>\n

\"BradBrad Lander speaks outside the Jacob Javits Federal Building Wednesday, May 20, 2026 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams\/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

If Lander wins by anything close to the more than 2-1 margin reflected in the survey it would represent a huge political victory for Mamdani who has backed Lander after the two men forged an unusual feel-good alliance in the 2025 mayoral race. Goldman refused to back Mamdani<\/a> even after he won the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

A recent poll by a pro-Goldman group showed a tighter race<\/a> with Lander ahead by 5%.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrad Lander has objectively been the favorite since he launched, but just an absolutely devastating poll for Dan Goldman,\u201d tweeted Adam Carlson,<\/a> a Democratic pollster who has seen other surveys of the race.<\/p>\n

Goldman aides dismissed the new poll, claiming it overestimates the number of younger and well-educated people who will vote in a low-turnout primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data we\u2019ve seen shows a dead heat,\u201d said Simone Kanter, a spokesman for Goldman.<\/p>\n

Lander\u2019s team said it would keep on running \u201cthe fight of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking nothing for granted,\u201d said Emily Minster, a spokeswoman for Lander.<\/p>\n

\"CongressmanCongressman Dan Goldman, right, talks with New York City Comptroller Brad Lander before speaking at a press conference outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on Tuesday, July 8, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The survey didn\u2019t break down results between the Manhattan and Brooklyn portions of NY-10. Lander, who spent decades as a community activist and city councilmember in his Park Slope neighborhood, is expected to dominate the more-populous Brooklyn section.<\/p>\n

The poll didn\u2019t ask voters about policy preferences, so it\u2019s impossible to say if the well-publicized split between the two candidates<\/a>, both of whom are Jewish, over Israel is driving support for Lander.<\/p>\n

Goldman has portrayed himself as a strong supporter of the Jewish state,<\/a> although he says he disagrees with right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

Lander has taken a more progressive stance and opposes all military aid to Israel, especially in light of the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n

Lander has also framed himself as a more aggressive critic of President Trump<\/a>, especially on immigration, and was arrested trying to protect an undocumented immigrant from detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.\u00a0 Goldman counters that he has won improvements in conditions at a NYC detention center with quieter advocacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Lander leads Rep. Dan Goldman by a huge 34% margin in a new independent poll of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[85,9,24,12,63,87,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-239931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239931","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=239931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}