Poll suggests first positive rating for Governor Hochul since February, 2023, while Trump holds high favorability among New York Republican voters

LOUDONVILLE, NY- Governor Kathy Hochul has a 45-42% favorability rating, up from 40-43% in November, and the first time it has been positive since it was 46-43% in February 2023.

In addition, her job approval rating is 52-43%, up a little from 48-44% in November, all according to a Siena College poll of registered New York State voters released Monday.

By margins of between 21 and six percentage points, a plurality or majority of New Yorkers think that Hochul will not make progress on any of five issues she has put forth as goals: making New York a more desirable place to live, making New York the A.I. capital of the world, making the state safer, fixing the mental health care system, and increasing the housing supply.

Meanwhile, the poll suggests that former U.S. President Donald Trump has a 37-57% favorability rating, up a little from 34-60% in November, while he has an 80-15% favorability with Republicans.

By a 74-24% margin, Republicans say they want Trump – as opposed to someone else – as their presidential nominee this year.

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This Siena College Poll was conducted January 14-17, 2024, among 807 NYS Registered Voters. Of the 807 respondents, 507 were contacted through a dual frame (landline and cell phone) mode and 300 respondents were drawn from a proprietary online panel (Lucid). Telephone calls were conducted in English and respondent sampling was initiated by asking for the youngest person in the household. Telephone sampling was conducted via a stratified dual frame probability sample of landline and cell phone telephone numbers weighted to reflect known population patterns. The landline telephone sample was obtained from ASDE and the cell phone sample was obtained from Dynata. Data from collection modes was statistically adjusted by age, party by region, race/ethnicity, education, and gender to ensure representativeness. It has an overall margin of error of +/- 4.5 percentage points including the design effects resulting from weighting. The Siena College Research Institute, directed by Donald Levy, Ph.D., conducts political, economic, social, and cultural research primarily in NYS. SCRI, an independent, non-partisan research institute, subscribes to the American Association of Public Opinion Research Code of Professional Ethics and Practices.