ALBANY, N.Y. — A new Siena Poll has been released.
It covers a wide range of political topics - from the state's newly passed budget to the 2024 presidential race.
When it comes to the budget, five major elements are getting significant support. Those include mental health funding with 80% support, increasing the minimum wage with 64% support, changing bail reform 59% support, support for reproductive health care with 59% support, and a crackdown on illegal weed sales with 58% support.
And looking ahead to 2024, right now New Yorkers seem pretty entrenched when it comes to supporting candidates for the presidency.
A reported 60% of Republicans would vote for Donald Trump in a primary, with 32% saying someone else.
As for the Democrats, 56% would vote for Joe Biden, which is up 13% in the last two months.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's favorability was negative for the first time with a 45% of voters viewing her unfavorably compared to 40% who viewed her favorably in March.
“While voters think that the recently passed budget and many of its specifics will be good for New York, at the same time they also give Hochul her worst-ever favorability rating – the first time it’s been under water. For months, we’ve noted that Hochul’s favorable rating has never hit 50%, now she’s struggling to keep it in the 40s,” said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg. “While viewed favorably by 57% of Democrats, she’s viewed unfavorably by 54% of independents and 77% of Republicans. Upstate, voters view her unfavorably two-to-one.
“Hochul’s job performance rating remained modestly positive, 50-44%, and nearly matched its all time low of 49-44% in December. Since January, Hochul’s favorability and job approval ratings have both dropped in each of the last three Siena polls. Job approval has fallen by 14 points and favorability by 11 points.”