{"id":354101,"date":"2025-11-04T03:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:43:21","slug":"mamdani-sliwa-and-cuomo-make-final-push-in-nyc-mayors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/354101\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani, Sliwa and Cuomo make final push in NYC mayor’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Coney Island to the Bronx, the candidates in New York City\u2019s mayoral race spent Monday crisscrossing the five boroughs in a final, frenzied day of campaigning on the eve of Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As candidates made final pitch to voters, President Donald Trump urged New Yorkers to cast their ballot for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in an effort to defeat Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. The president posted that voters \u201creally have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign hurtled toward its end<\/a> after more than 735,000 votes were cast during the city\u2019s nine days of early, in-person voting \u2014 more than four times the number of ballots cast during the only other mayor\u2019s race to allow early voting, in 2021.<\/p>\n

The tally was well short of the nearly 1.1 million early, in-person votes cast during last year\u2019s presidential election, but some voting locations saw large crowds Sunday, the last day of early voting. The line at one polling place in downtown Brooklyn snaked around the building and, at one point, took an hour to cast a ballot.<\/p>\n

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\"People<\/p>\n

People wait to submit their votes at Trinity Lutheran Church Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/p>\n

People wait to submit their votes at Trinity Lutheran Church Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II)<\/p>\n

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A frenzied last stretch<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s schedule was packed Monday, with stops in each of the boroughs for a get-out-the-vote effort. He wasted little time in attacking Mamdani. At one early stop, the former governor likened a potential Mamdani administration to left-wing governments in Latin America.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocialism didn\u2019t work in Venezuela. Socialism didn\u2019t work in Cuba. Socialism is not going to work in New York City,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Cuomo, 67, is trying to make his return to political office after resigning as governor four years ago following a barrage of sexual harassment accusations that he denies. A Democrat running as an independent, he\u2019s shifted to wooing Republican voters to bolster his centrist base, pitching himself as the only candidate who can stop Mamdani.<\/p>\n

Mamdani kicked off the day by crossing the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise. By the time the sun went down, he was giving a pep talk to canvassers in Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith close to just 24 hours until the polls close, let us leave everything out there on the field, my friends,\u201d Mamdani told cheering supporters. \u201cLet us do it together. Let us work so hard this evening and tomorrow that we never have to ask ourselves the question: \u2018What if?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Al-Sharif Nassef, left, a canvasser for New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, distributes campaign material at The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew)<\/p>\n

Al-Sharif Nassef, left, a canvasser for New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, distributes campaign material at The Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew)<\/p>\n

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Mamdani<\/a>, a state assemblymember who would be the city\u2019s first Muslim mayor, beat Cuomo in the primary with an energetic campaign focused on making the city a more affordable place to live.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s busy weekend of campaigning included nightclub appearances, watching the Buffalo Bills at a bar with Gov. Kathy Hochul and attending a Knicks game \u2014 in the nosebleed seats, drawing a contrast with Cuomo\u2019s courtside view a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

Sliwa, the red beret-wearing creator of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, visited a subway stop in Brooklyn, laying a wreath for a woman who died last year after being set on fire<\/a> at the station, before setting off to rally his supporters in the outer boroughs. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be a race where the billionaires, the influencers, the insiders will not pick the next mayor of the city of New York. The people are going to pick the next mayor,\u201d Sliwa told supporters at an evening campaign stop in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Trump weighs in<\/p>\n

Trump, a former New York resident of note, has loomed over the race for months. The Republican president has threatened to<\/a> arrest Mamdani, deport him and take over the city if he wins. <\/p>\n

In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump said New Yorkers have \u201cno choice\u201d but to vote for Cuomo, throwing his support behind the former governor as he reiterated a threat to withhold federal funds from the city if Mamdani wins. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job,\u201d Trump wrote. <\/p>\n

The president also echoed a line that Cuomo has stressed in the final weeks of his campaign, saying, \u201cA vote for Curtis Sliwa (who looks much better without the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo was not asked directly about the president\u2019s tacit endorsement during an interview Monday evening on WABC Radio but expressed agreement with Trump\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe president is right. A vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani. And that\u2019s why this election is now up to the Republicans,\u201d Cuomo said. <\/p>\n

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\n New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa rallies with supporters at one of his campaign offices, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew)\n <\/p>\n

New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa rallies with supporters at one of his campaign offices, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew)<\/p>\n

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\n New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cheers along with supporters while campaigning in New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)\n <\/p>\n

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo cheers along with supporters while campaigning in New York, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/p>\n

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Sliwa continued to assert Monday that he was not dropping out of the race. <\/p>\n

Mamdani later blasted the \u201cMAGA movement\u2019s embrace\u201d of Cuomo. He told his supporters that Trump believes Cuomo will be the best mayor for his administration, not for New Yorkers. <\/p>\n

The battle is on social media, too<\/p>\n

Cuomo on Friday released another of the AI-generated ads that have been a fixture of his campaign, this time showing a fake Mamdani going trick-or-treating for Halloween. The video has a disclaimer that it is \u201cAI generated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former governor has been criticized for his use of artificial intelligence in ads, and in one instance pulled down a fabricated ad depicting Mamdani eating rice with his hands and describing his supporters as criminals. A campaign spokesperson said the video was posted in error.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, meanwhile, released a social media video of him speaking Arabic \u2014 which, he admits in the ad, \u201cneeds some work.\u201d He has previously put out videos speaking Spanish and Bengali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Coney Island to the Bronx, the candidates in New York City\u2019s mayoral race spent Monday crisscrossing the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":354102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[5297,3881,8471,1121,5340,69,90,5289,57,5371,1571,405,403,50,80,61,67,132,68,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-354101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-ap-top-news","11":"tag-bronx","12":"tag-brooklyn","13":"tag-curtis-sliwa","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-eric-adams","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-kathy-hochul","19":"tag-national","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-u-s-news","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115489368690009569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}