Socialist Mayor Candidate Sinks in New Poll After Receiving Endorsements from AOC and Chuck Schumer

With flaming firebrand New York Democrats such as Rep. 👤Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Majority Leader 👤Chuck Schumer endorsing socialist Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton, what could go wrong?

A lot, according to a new poll.

The snapshot of opinion taken after Schumer backed Walton and as Ocasio-Cortez was in town for a rally to promote her showed that Walton was falling even further behind than a previous poll taken in August.

Walton, a self-described democratic socialist, scored an upset win in Buffalo’s Democratic mayoral primary in June when she defeated incumbent Democrat Byron Brown, who is running a write-in campaign to keep his job.

A WIVB/Emerson College poll released Tuesday showed that Brown had a nearly 18-point lead over Walton, according to WIVB-TV. The poll, which has a margin of error of 4.2 percentage points, found Brown with 53.8 percent support and Walton at 36.2 percent support.

In August, Brown was leading Walton by 10 points, 50.2 percent to 40.1 percent.

“Considering only 6% of voters are currently undecided right now, Byron Brown has a pretty significant lead in the race that may not be able to be overcome by India Walton,” Emerson College Polling analyst Isabel Holloway said. “Even when we asked those undecided voters who they are leaning towards at this time, they break over two-to-one toward someone else rather than India Walton.”