U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s favorability rating has remained steady over the last few months as she mounts another reelection campaign this year, according to a Siena College poll released Tuesday.
The poll found the Democratic New York junior senator had a 40-32% favorability rating among registered voters. About 38% of respondents had no opinion or didn’t know.
That is relatively on track with a 42-28% favorability rating back in January and a 41-27% favorability back in September. At this point during her last reelection campaign in 2018, Gillibrand had a 48-27% favorability rating.
The Tuesday poll found that 39% of New York voters said they would reelect her, including 26% of Republicans, while 37% said they would prefer someone else, including 27% of Democrats. Registered independents said they would prefer someone else 43-30%, the poll said.
Regionally, 44% of voters located in New York City said they would vote to re-elect her while 39% would prefer someone else. In the upstate region, 39% said they would vote for her while 34% would prefer someone else. In the suburbs, more voters said they would prefer someone else, 40-33%, than Gillibrand.
Gillibrand is expected to be on the ballot concurrently with Democratic President Joe Biden, who has a negative 43-53% favorability rating among New York voters in Tuesday’s poll. Gillibrand herself ran for president unsuccessfully in 2020.
A former member of the House of Representatives first appointed by Gov. David Paterson in 2009 to fill replace Hillary Clinton after she was nominated to be secretary of state in the Obama administration, Gillibrand is seeking her third full term in the U.S. Senate.
In her last re-election in 2018, Gillibrand received 67% of the vote, and has never received less than 60% of the statewide vote.
Last week, the New York state Democratic Committee officially designated Gillibrand as their candidate for another term.
New York Republicans are meeting in Binghamton this week to hold the party’s statewide nominating convention, where they are expected to nominate their candidate for the U.S. Senate seat. Republican businessman Josh Eisen and retired-NYPD Detective Mike Sapraicone are both seeking the party’s support.
