New York Gov. Kathy Hochul saw an improvement in her favorability and job approval last month and strong support for her top-line policy items in the still unfinished state budget, according to a Siena College poll of registered New York voters released Tuesday.

The governor has a favorability rating of 44-43%, up from 40-50% in March, and voters approve of the job Hochul is doing 48%-45%, according to the poll. Also improved from last month is her reelection stance with a year and a half until she’s set to face voters for a second full term, with 39% of voters prepared to reelect her, while 48% want someone else.

“For the first time since January 2024, Hochul has a positive – barely – favorability rating, and for the first time since February 2024, a plurality of voters approves of the

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