This as Mamdani still leads in the polls….
A Big early vote turn out….
Six days to the actual election….
Republicans throw EVERYTHING and the Kitchen Sink at Mamdani in the media…
Cuomo ads hit the airways…
And Cuomo closes in the late polling….
Bloomberg Money…
Michael R. Bloomberg, New York City’s billionaire former mayor, put $1.5 million into a super PAC supporting Andrew M. Cuomo’s bid for mayor on Wednesday, and urged New Yorkers to vote for the former governor.
Filings show the money went to Fix the City, a group run by a longtime Cuomo ally that has been responsible for anti-Mamdani advertising and a get-out-the-vote operation during the campaign.
This is Mr. Bloomberg’s first foray into the mayor’s race since the Democratic primary, when he spent more than $8 million backing Mr. Cuomo’s failed bid to become the party’s nominee.
While threats from the city’s business elite to spend as much as $100 million in an effort to knock out Mr. Mamdani failed to materialize, super PAC spending against him has ticked up in the final days before Tuesday’s election….
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But in a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Bloomberg said that he stood by his earlier endorsement of Mr. Cuomo and had voted for him.
“Being mayor of New York City is the second toughest job in America, and the next mayor will face immense challenges,” he said. “Andrew Cuomo has the experience and toughness to stand up for New Yorkers and get things done.”….
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Tom Suozzi for Cuomo…
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) threw last-minute support behind Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday ahead of New York City’s contentious mayoral election next week, backing a campaign that has seen few endorsements from top Democratic Party leaders.
In a social media post, Suozzi — whose district encompasses part of Long Island and a piece of Queens — gave his full-throated support for Cuomo’s independent bid, but spent much of the announcement zeroing in on where he felt Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani fell short. Without explicitly naming Mamdani, Suozzi ripped his “thin resume” and said he couldn’t back a “declared socialist.”
“We need leaders who will fight crime, not undermine the police,” Suozzi wrote. “Who will create jobs, not harm the economy. Who will keep taxes down, not make it more expensive for middle class families to live here.”
Suozzi has long been a vocal critic of Mamdani and has consistently separated himself from the democratic socialist through the campaign. He’s maintained concerns about Mamdani’s proposed solutions to affordability, and earlier this year, he penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal arguing Mamdani “should serve as a loud wake-up call for the Democratic Party.”
But the announcement signals an eleventh-hour effort from Suozzi to mark his lasting dissatisfaction with Mamdani — and distance himself from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ endorsement of Mamdani last week…..
Note….
I expect the final polls to show an even closer than 10 point margin for Mamdani that the one week out ones show…
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