Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to drop his re-election bid provides a boost to Andrew Cuomo in the race for City Hall, but not nearly enough to topple mayoral front-runner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, pollsters and campaign strategists said.

Before his Sunday announcement, Adams was polling in the high single digits — not enough alone to change the trajectory of the race, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist University Institute for Public Opinion. 6

The mayor received 9% support in Marist’s poll released earlier this month, a distant fourth behind Mamdani, Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.

There are too few Adams voters to shift elsewhere to make a dramatic difference.

“It gives Cuomo a boost — but it’s not enough,” Miringoff told The Post. 6

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