By more than a two-to-one margin, a new poll shows that New Yorker voters want Mayor Eric Adams to resign in the wake of his indictment last week on federal corruption charges.

“I’m going to step up! I’m not gonna resign, I’m gonna reign!” Adams said in the Bronx on Sunday, Sept. 29.

But New Yorkers say otherwise in a new Marist College Poll released Friday, showing that most city voters have soured on Adams.

Sixty-nine percent of voters say the mayor should resign, compared to 29% who prefer he serve out the rest of his term. Fifty-nine percent of Black voters want him to step down, as do 67% of Latino voters and 72% of White voters.

It’s the first poll released since the indictment was unsealed last week, focusing on city voters who are familiar with the federal charges.

“What we see is just how quickly this poll follows on the announcement of the indictment, and you know, he’s clearly not getting the benefit of the doubt from voters. I mean, it’s been a quick and negative reaction to him,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute of Public Opinion, told NY1 in a Zoom interview ahead of the poll’s release.

“The numbers speak to what a representative cross section of New Yorkers think, not necessarily the people he’s gonna rally around him for an immediate event.”

After being indicted on charges including bribery, wire fraud and solicitation of donations from foreign nationals, Adams has surrounded himself with supporters. But the poll shows he has just a 26% job approval rating among adults and 25% among registered voters.

“He can find people who are those who are gonna sing his praises, but when it comes to the court of public opinion, when it comes to a representative sample of New Yorkers, there is no single group who is really in his corner,” Miringoff said.

Meanwhile, nearly two-thirds of voters want Gov. Kathy Hochul to begin the process to remove Adams from office — a power available to her under city and state law.

“He obviously says he can do both,” noted Miringoff. “Right now, when you’re looking at his numbers, nearly three quarters of New Yorkers are familiar with what’s going on, so it’s not a question of them having to suddenly discover something.”

Adams needs many more voters on his side as he’s still prepping for reelection, but most voters also want him out of next year’s race. Eighty-one percent of registered voters said they do not want him to run for reelection compared to just 19% in favor.

“In the vernacular of New Yorkers, they’re saying: forget about it! I mean, this is just that bad,” Miringoff said.

The poll was conducted Sept. 30 through Oct. 1 and includes input from 1,073 adults — ages 18 and older — living in New York City.

The margin of error for all adults is plus/minus 3.6 percentage points, but for registered voters, is plus/minus 3.8 percentage points.