In a new poll, conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion(LINK), Mr. Adams has 24 percent support, followed by Ms. Garcia with 17 percent and Maya Wiley, a former counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio, with 15 percent. Andrew Yang, a 2020 presidential candidate who had once been considered the front-runner, fell to fourth place with 13 percent.

Using ranked-choice voting it takes 12 rounds to get to a final two candidates, where Adams beats Garcia 56 percent – 44 percent. In the survey estimate, conducted with advocacy group FairVote, Adams leads every round in the process by a comfortable margin, and Garcia remains in second throughout.

The telephone poll has a margin of error of 3.8 percentage points. It was conducted after Maya Wiley picked up a round of significant endorsements like Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but before the controversy erupted over where Adams actually lives, NBC News reported