Like Donbald Trump?
A guy from Queens….
Like Trump …..
Woman issues….
Unlike Trump?
He HAS governed remarkily WELL
But?
Being the man of a city that HAS Changed ….
To a place that does NOT remember his being a Good Governor….
Only being ‘That Guy’….
…Now, straining to catch Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, in the closing stages of this mayoral race, Mr. Cuomo has shown far more hustle than he did in his languid primary bid — sitting with seniors and shock-jocks, semi-smiling for cellphone selfies, play-grabbing the shoulders of men with silver hair who said they remembered his father.
He has embraced schlocky A.I.-generated advertising to depict Mr. Mamdani as a secondary character from the Austin Powers franchise; adopted a high-pitched voice to play the role of New Yorker Grateful for Andrew Cuomo’s Construction Projects as Governor (“This is nice! We did this! I feel good about New York!”); commended Mr. Paul for his feats in hydration commerce (“I’m going to bring some bottles with me”).
What Mr. Cuomo has not done, what former aides have long said he is incapable of doing, is change.
To see him up close in the campaign’s final frames — pressing, pleading, seeing what sticks, calling his opponents meritless hacks and unbridled zealots while lamenting the bygone civility he ascribes to the less-than-utopian New York of his 1970s adolescence — is to see a man betting that this city has not changed as much as others seem to think it has, either.
“Our city,” he thundered last weekend in Queens, standing atop a flatbed truck draped in hybrid American-Israeli flags. “Our city.”
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“He lives for political power,” Frank Seddio, a former Brooklyn Democratic chairman who has known Mr. Cuomo since the 1970s, said after the two campaigned together in southeast Brooklyn last week. This was a compliment.
And so, with some polls tightening and Mr. Cuomo’s rhetoric unbound, his last days on the trail have felt at times like a collective spasming of the old guard — or a proper countermovement, admirers hope — as a new would-be political order threatens their grip and his relevance…..
Poll’s 5 Days out from Election Day….
| 2025 New York City Mayor | FOX News |
Mamdani 47, Cuomo 31, Sliwa15
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Mamdani +16
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| 2025 New York City Mayor | The Hill/Emerson |
Mamdani 50, Cuomo 25, Sliwa21
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Mamdani +25
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| 2025 New York City Mayor | Marist |
Mamdani 48, Cuomo 32, Sliwa16
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Mamdani +16
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| Real Clear Politics |
image…Vincent Alban/The New York Times
Is the NYC mayoral race tightening?
Not unless you’re cherry-picking for Cuomo — although New York City has a history of late polling movement and Election Day surprises….
More in the Nate Silver linked piece