ALBANY – Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made a point during his tenure of not straying too far from New York.

As chatter about him seeking the White House in 2020 heats up — again — New Yorkers are remaining firm that he should continue to stay home, according to a new poll.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows that 55 percent of voters say the Democrat should not run for president in 2020. Upstate, 65 percent say he shouldn't run, the largest percentage of any region or subdivision of those polled.

A bare majority of Democrats are on board with the idea, however, with 50 percent saying Cuomo should run and 43 percent saying he should stay home. Predictably, 74 percent of Republicans say he shouldn't run.

What's more, voters aren't high on the idea that Cuomo would make a good president. Only 34 percent say he would, while 56 percent say he wouldn't. Among Democrats, a plurality (49 percent) say he would make a good president.

Again, upstaters are the most pessimistic about a Cuomo White House, with 66 percent saying he wouldn't make a good president and 27 percent saying that he would.

"Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hurting in Albany and New Yorkers say he should fuhgeddabout Washington," said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. "This might change - it almost certainly will - when the 2020 presidential year comes along. But for now his New York neighbors don't think Gov. Cuomo would be a good President and they don't want him to try for the job. He's got a couple of years - and more Trumpian tweets - to change their minds."

The one bright spot for Cuomo is that 51 percent of voters say that it would be good for New York if he ran.

On Tuesday, the governor recycled his standard response when asked about his 2020 prospects.

"I'm running for re-election as governor of the state of New York and that's what I'm focused on and that's what I'm doing and that's what I wake up thinking about," he said. "That's my focus."

The latest numbers from Quinnipiac are similar to what previous polling by the university has shown on the question of whether Cuomo should seek the presidency. An NBC4/Marist poll released last month also showed that 51 percent of voters don't want him to run.

Meanwhile, as Carroll alluded to, Cuomo's numbers take a dip when voters are asked about his current job. Forty-six percent statewide say they approve of the way he is handling his job as governor. The only region where a minority of voters approve of the way he is handling his job is upstate, where 37 percent approve and 48 percent disapprove.

Quinnipiac polled 1,137 voters. The margin of error is +/- 3.9 percent.

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