NYC 2025 Mayor Election is Tomorrow…..

The candidates and their allies spent millions on advertising and voter outreach to get their supporters to the polls over the last two weeks. So far, turnout has been enormous: More than 735,000 people voted early, according to the Board of Elections — more than four times the number of ballots cast in the same period during the 2021 contest.

But it all comes down to Tuesday.

Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, who has maintained a double-digit lead in most surveys of the race, remains the clear front-runner. He started Monday by walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise to City Hall, where he spoke about moving past the tenure of Mayor Eric Adams.

“We stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” Mr. Mamdani said.

Mr. Cuomo has tried to close the polling gap through appeals to moderate Democrats and conservatives, as well as some negative ads from political action committees opposed to Mr. Mamdani. He began a get-out-the-vote tour of the five boroughs on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Mr. Cuomo received the tepid backing of President Trump, who during an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that was aired on Sunday said he would prefer Mr. Cuomo to win, calling it a contest “between a bad Democrat and a communist” (Mr. Mamdani is a democratic socialist). Mr. Mamdani mocked Mr. Cuomo after he received the president’s reluctant backing.

Mr. Trump also said that it would be “hard for me” to send federal funding to the city under Mr. Mamdani’s leadership.

The campaigns have also relied on volunteers to call voters or canvass to boost turnout. On Sunday, the last day of early voting, Mr. Mamdani’s campaign said it had broken a single-day campaign record by knocking on more than 103,000 doors.

The last days of the race have often been contentious. On Saturday, Mr. Cuomo defended himself against charges that his campaign had injected Islamophobia into the race with comments about Mr. Mamdani’s faith. Mr. Cuomo suggested instead that Mr. Mamdani’s past comments and policy positions made him a more divisive figure.

Here’s what else to know:

• The Cuomo campaign: After his stunning defeat in the mayoral primary, Mr. Cuomo said he learned hard lessons to apply to his attempt at a political comeback. But his campaign style has shown that very little has changed.

• Mamdani at the Garden: Mr. Mamdani went to the Knicks gameSunday night at Madison Square Garden, wearing a home-team jersey and mingling with fans while sitting in nosebleed seats. The low-key appearance underscored the accessible and relatable image he has tried to convey, and stood in contrast to Mr. Cuomo’s appearance at a game last month, when he wore a suit after coming straight from a mayoral debate and sat courtside next to Mayor Eric Adams.

• Who to watch: Mr. Mamdani upset the field in June’s Democratic mayoral primary by building a novel voter coalition. We will be paying close attention to the candidates’ performances among some voting groups to understand Tuesday’s outcome.

• How to vote: Election Day is Tuesday, and polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. You can find your polling place here, and check your voter registration status here…..

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NY Post….

Gen Zers and Millennials outnumbered their older counterparts at the polls on the final days of early voting in the Big Apple — as a shocking new mayoral election poll showed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo cut into Zohran Mamdani’s once-commanding lead.

The younger generations, who overwhelmingly backed Mamdani in the primary, dominated New Yorkers over 50 all weekend — but experts told The Post that the results are not all that surprising, or necessarily bad for Cuomo.

From Friday through Sunday, roughly 186,843 people between the ages of 18 and 49 cast their ballots, as opposed to the 148,462 voters over the age of 50, according to city Board of Education data reviewed by The Post.

Mamdani attracted a historic turnout in the primary election that helped him snatch the Democratic nomination away from Cuomo, who never quite regained Gen Z and Millennials’ favor after his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the various sexual assault allegations levied against him.

But Stephen Graves, an analyst with Gotham Polling, told The Post that despite the larger turnout of younger voters, Election Day will likely attract the older crowds.

If more than 2 million voters do in fact cast their ballots, it could play to Cuomo’s favor, according to Graves.

“As the turnout gets larger, it leans more moderate and brings in the independents,” the analyst said.

“That benefits Cuomo because he was getting more independent while the vast majority of Mamdani’s voters were Democrats,” Graves explained, before noting that Mamdani could still win off the Democrats alone.

Evan Roth Smith, a pollster with Slingshot Strategies, noted that the younger generations’ vote isn’t the make or break for Mamdani’s campaign anymore.

“The pickup in young voter turnout is definitely good for Zohran, but he’s less reliant on them to win now than he was in the primary. But sustaining the turnout will be decisive in whether he breaks 50% of the vote,” Smith told The Post….

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