Battered by numerous investigations of his campaign and administration, Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday saw his job-approval rating sink to its lowest point since he took office.
Only 41 percent of voters in the latest Quinnipiac University survey said the mayor was doing a good job, while 52 percent said he wasn’t.
That’s a 19-point swing from the previous Q poll, in January, when he de Blasio had a positive, 50-42, rating.
Perhaps most troubling for the mayor were the numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who form his base and whose support showed significant signs of erosion for the first time.
Four months ago, black voters gave de Blasio an approval rating of 77 percent. This time, it’s only 58 percent.
In a similar but smaller drop, Hizzoner’s approval among Hispanic voters fell from 66 to 55.
“The mayor is not dead yet, but he should worry,” said political consultant Hank Sheinkopf. “Even those groups that stayed most loyal to the mayor are starting to run away.”
The latest poll also shows that a majority of voters does not believe de Blasio deserves to be re-elected next year, while he finishes in a dead heat with two potential rivals.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer would get 36 percent to de Blasio’s 37 in a hypothetical 2017 race, while Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams would grab 34 percent to de Blasio’s 35.
The outcomes assume his challengers run as independents in the general election.
Voters’ views of de Blasio’s honesty also reached historic lows, with 45 percent saying he’s not trustworthy and 43 percent saying he is.
“The overall favorability switching in a couple of months is rather astounding,” said Baruch College Professor Doug Muzzio.
“It shows the considerable weakness of the mayor at this time. I mean, he can rebound, but it’s a precipitous decline.”
Tuesday’s poll was the first since the mayor was engulfed by a series of investigations of his administration’s fund-raising efforts.
In recent months, state and federal law-enforcement agencies have targeted de Blasio’s 2013 mayoral campaign and his nonprofit Campaign for One New York.
There also have been questions about the legality of a coordinated fund-raising campaign for state Senate Democrats in 2014.
The mayor insists his administration followed the law in all the cases, and City Hall spokeswoman Karen Hinton dismissed poll results as being as changeable as the weather.
“The mayor will be judged by results, the only real measure of success. Crime is down; affordable housing is being built; and more and more children are attending pre-K,” she said.
“At the end of the day, voters care about what their elected officials are achieving for them.”
Here are some of the reasons why New Yorkers are losing respect for the Mayor: