9:57PM
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NY Times also projects n0 50% for Mamdani….
Remember ….
In the polling ?
Cuomo did better….
Only one poll had Mamdani ahead in the initial vote….
Cuome IS having a bad night folks….
NY Times 930PM…Polls closed @ 9:00PM
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was holding onto a lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after early votes were counted. But hundreds of thousands of votes cast on Election Day had yet to be tallied and could be more favorable to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Mr. Mamdani, an upstart assemblyman and democratic socialist, had fought fiercely for months with Mr. Cuomo, the state’s scandal-plagued former governor. By later tonight, voters are certain to know which candidate is in the lead, but under the city’s ranked-choice voting system, a winner may not be clear until next week.
Whoever prevails will become the front-runner in the general election to lead a city at an inflection point. New York is confronting a cost-of-living crisis and President Trump’s increasingly aggressive tactics to impose his agenda on immigration and transportation, issues that dominated the race.
The fall campaign could be unusually competitive. Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, skipped the primary to seek a second term as an independent. Curtis Sliwa, the 2021 Republican nominee, secured his party’s nomination without a primary, and Jim Walden, a lawyer, is running as an independent. But neither Mr. Cuomo nor Mr. Mamdani has ruled out a fall campaign either if they lose on Tuesday.
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Waiting for results: Because New Yorkers will be voting under a ranked-choice system, the final result will not be determined tonight unless one candidate receives more than 50 percent of first-choice votes. If not, voters’ backup choices are scheduled to be tabulated on July 1.
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Numbers to watch: Campaign strategists agree it may be possible to get a sense tonight of where the final results are headed. If any candidate secures more than 40 percent of the vote on the first ballot, it will be very difficult for their rivals to catch them. Likewise, if one candidate has a lead of 10 or more percentage points
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Final days: The contest was especially fierce in its final days. Mr. Cuomo, 67, who has campaigned far less than his opponents, has relied on labor unions and a record-setting super PAC burying voters in anti-Mamdani ads to push him across the finish line. Mr. Mamdani, 33, who has amassed tens of thousands of mostly young volunteers, traversed the city and linked arms with fellow progressive candidates like Brad Lander, the city comptroller, in an 11th-hour bid to stop Mr. Cuomo’s return.
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Who’s running for mayor: The wide field of Democratic candidates included Mr. Cuomo; Mr. Mamdani; Mr. Lander; Adrienne Adams, the City Council speaker; Scott Stringer, the former comptroller; State Senator Zellnor Myrie; former Assemblyman Michael Blake; and the financier Whitney Tilson, among others.
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What else is on the ballot: New York Democrats also voted in a competitive primary to replace Mr. Lander as comptroller, a contested primary for public advocate and a smattering of key City Council races. Republicans do not have a mayoral primary this year but will select a nominee for comptroller….
Update….
Zohrans spokesperson Andrew Epstein says they’re feeling good about the early polling that has come in showing Zohran leading in early voting by about 9%. “We weren’t even thinking about a watch party until very recently,” he said.
is expected to arrive @ 11.
We’ll have to wait….
But this is NOT a good look for Cuomo……
Surprise for Cuomo and a LOT of us….
NYC goes LEFT?….
Hmmmmm for the Democratic party maybe?
I said a long, long, long time ago that Cuomo would never be elected to anything again, deservedly so.
Do I get a “told ya.”
There is a general election and NYC needs to not literally do something insane. Horrible position for Democrats to find themselves with nationwide. They should run far, far, far away from Mamdani.
I am definitely comparing Mamdani being nominated by Democrats to when David Duke was the top Republican for Governor of Louisiana in 1991, especially considering what Mamdani said after the October 7 attacks in which he blamed Israel and not Hamas.
This guy Jim Walden, whomever he is, is obviously the best choice, but politics being politics, he might not be the best option to stop Mamdani. Maybe he has a chance. I sure hope so.
Otherwise, that leaves Eric Adams as the Edwin Edwards figure in this race.
Vote for the crook. It’s important.
posting something so that my last post loads.
I am going to assume that Andrew Cuomo is not going to accept a line on the November ballot to run as a third party candidate.
If he does, and it is a five way race, that puts Curtis Sliwa into contention.
Mamdani is not only “defund the police” he is “eliminate the police.”
This is an embarrassment Democrats did not need. Shame on so many of them for thinking someone as hideous as Andrew Cuomo was their only political savior.
There is a cancer of extremism and performative actions very much present in both major parties.
A couple of years ago, Chicago elected a far left Mayor who now has 7 percent job approval.
Mamdani makes Brandon Johnson look like Ron DeSantis.