Andrew Cuomo has been praying for this…..
NYC Adams voters WILL probably switch TO Cuomo , who HOPES that Sliwa voters will come to him in the end. in the M
Andrew Cuomo has been praying for this…..
Adams voters WILL probably switch TO Cuomo , who HOPES that Sliwa voters will come to him in the end…….
BTW?
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BTW?
Expect Mamdani’s margin to shrink in the next 5 weeks or so…..
Andrew Cuomo got exactly what he wanted: incumbent Mayor Eric Adams dropped his reelection bid, making the former governor the sole middle-of-the-road Democrat vying to run the nation’s largest city.
But Cuomo only has five weeks to capitalize in his uphill battle to defeat Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. Whether he can is still a longshot, and the trick of overcoming that remains in the how.
Cuomo staff and allies said Monday that more money has begun flowing into his campaign and supportive super PACs since Adams bowed out, a sign they believe will help position Cuomo as the only candidate with experience against a 33-year-old democratic socialist and a subway vigilante talk show host.
The latter of those two is Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, who’s now facing stepped-up pressure to suspend his campaign to further narrow the field in favor of Cuomo, whose team says they’ve given up on that effort. Instead, they’re focused on getting voters to view the election as a binary choice between him and Mamdani, no matter how many other candidates are on the ballot. You don’t have to like Cuomo — you just have to vote for him, their thinking goes.
But the level of palace intrigue surrounding the GOP candidate could end up complicating the former governor’s plans.
“Cuomo needs every day he can get to be a one-on-one with Mamdani,” said Chris Coffey, who heads up the consulting firm Tusk Strategies and advised Cuomo during the primary. “The more focus that’s put on whether Sliwa will drop out, the more it freezes the race, freezes money and freezes the news cycle.”
To what degree the focus will be on Sliwa dropping out or a Mamdani-Cuomo tête-à-tête remains unknown. But the tension between those two themes began playing out Monday with calls ratcheting up for Sliwa to bow out. The Daily News called for him to do just that the day after Adams announced he would do the same…..
image….New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo walks on the runway during “Style Across the Aisle” fashion show Sept. 10, 2025. | Yuki Iwamura/AP