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The four 2025 NYC Mayor\u2019s Race candidates: Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, independents former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Mayor Eric Adams, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. <\/p>\n
Reuters, Lloyd Mitchell and Dean Moses<\/p>\n
As New York City counts down to Election Day on Nov. 4, the city\u2019s four main mayoral candidates are vying for support in a relatively packed general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From church visits to campaign stops at a Brooklyn 5K race, here is how each candidate spent their Sunday.\n<\/p>\n
Mamdani wraps up \u2018Big Fall Canvass\u2019\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee who is leading the field by a wide margin in most polls, spent Sunday morning speaking to congregants of Brooklyn\u2019s Bethany Baptist Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mamdani spoke of his love for New York City and the change he hopes to bring if elected to the city\u2019s highest office \u2014 rising rents and grocery costs, disproportionate police killings of Black New Yorkers, and higher maternal mortality rates for Black mothers than white mothers, Mamdani said, do \u201cnot feel like love.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMake no mistake, when we come to expect only apathy from the government that is intended to serve us, instead of change, that does not feel like love either,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
The mayoral hopeful alluded to President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and condemned the federal government for cuts to healthcare and food benefits.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAs your mayor, I will make it my responsibility to make life easier for working New Yorkers, the ones who are so often forgotten,\u201d the Democratic nominee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mamdani spoke of his plans to freeze the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, build more affordable housing, raise taxes on New York City\u2019s wealthiest residents, and deliver universal childcare.<\/p>\n
As Mamdani spoke to the congregants, his campaign team ran a massive canvassing operation dubbed \u201cBig Fall Canvass,\u201d looking to knock thousands of doors and drum up more support for the assemblymember. A Friday video from the campaign titled \u201cThe Home Stretch Starts Now\u201d called on supporters to sign up for a canvassing shift.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, Mamdani walked in the African American Day Parade in Harlem.\n<\/p>\n
Cuomo talks Trump, ICE raids<\/b><\/p>\n
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running on an independent party line in the general election after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, spent Sunday delivering remarks at Salem Missionary Baptist Church, the Free Methodist Church of Bethlehem, and the Sikh Center of New York.<\/p>\n
At Salem Missionary, Cuomo discussed gang and gun violence in the city, rising prices, and threats from the Trump administration. He noted Trump\u2019s crackdown on immigration enforcement and focus on Democratic cities like New York, where plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have repeatedly detained individuals attending routine hearings.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have news for the president: We have laws in New York also, I passed them, they\u2019re called sanctuary laws, and he\u2019s gonna have to go through me and those sanctuary laws if he thinks he\u2019s going to be removing migrants from New York,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n
The former governor said the city needs to focus on building more affordable housing, hiring more police, and improving public education \u201cin every district in this city, not just the rich and the white districts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cuomo cited his experience as governor and previously as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton as evidence that he would be an effective mayor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He closed by discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the city, which he said \u201cnearly killed us.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a silver lining for me through COVID, in that it gave me faith in our capacity to accomplish great things when we come together,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cIf we could get through that, my friends, we can get through anything, and we\u2019re going to take these challenges and make this city better than it has ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Free Methodist, Cuomo again discussed affordability, safety, education, and the Trump administration. The former governor closed his congregation visits with remarks at the Sikh Center of New York.<\/p>\n
Quiet Sunday for Adams<\/b><\/p>\n
Mayor Eric Adams appeared to have a quiet Sunday, with no public campaign schedule or mayor\u2019s schedule. His personal account continued to post on X about Mamdani, who is leading the mayor in most polls by over 30 points.<\/p>\n