A pair of newly released polls showed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cutting his double-digit deficit nearly in half against Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s closely watched mayoral race.
The polls from Boston’s Suffolk University and Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University both showed Mr. Mamdani leading Mr. Cuomo by 10 percentage points. The Suffolk poll showed Mr. Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, with a 44%-34% lead, while Quinnipiac had Mr. Mamdani ahead of Mr. Cuomo by 43%-33%.
Comparatively, Mr. Mamdani led Mr. Cuomo by 20 points in Suffolk’s last poll, on Sept. 23, and by 13 points in Quinnipiac’s previous poll, on Oct. 3…