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Forward of Tuesday’s Democratic Social gathering main for mayor in closely blue New York Metropolis, frontrunner Andrew Cuomo landed one other high-profile endorsement.
Cuomo, who resigned in 2021 throughout his third time period as New York State governor amid a number of scandals, was endorsed by former President Invoice Clinton. Cuomo served as Housing and City Improvement (HUD) secretary in the course of the Clinton administration.
“As President, I selected Andrew to be my Secretary of Housing and City Improvement, and he by no means let me down—however extra importantly, he did not let the nation down. He constructed public housing all throughout the nation,” Clinton mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
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(Former New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, was endorsed by former President Invoice Clinton in New York Metropolis’s Democratic Social gathering mayoral main.)
Cuomo, who’s aiming for a marketing campaign comeback and political redemption, has seen his once-large lead over the remainder of the Democrats within the 11-candidate area shrink.
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist state assemblyman from Queens, has narrowed the hole with Cuomo the previous couple of months within the Democratic mayoral main, which is performed utilizing a ranked-choice voting system by which voters rank candidates by choice on their ballots.
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Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Metropolis’s most outstanding chief on the left, endorsed Mamdani earlier this month. Final week, longtime progressive champion and two-time Democratic presidential nominee runner-up Sen. Bernie Sanders backed Mamdani, who’s initially from Uganda.
With a number of candidates on the left working within the main, the endorsements by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate the help of progressive voters behind Mamdani.
Democratic mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo, left, and Zohran Mamdani, proper, current arguments as Whitney Tilson seems on throughout a Democratic mayoral main debate on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in New York. (AP Picture/Yuki Iwamura, Pool)
In a distant third place in the latest polls is New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander.
Lander made headlines final week after his arrest by Division of Homeland Safety brokers in Manhattan after allegedly assaulting a federal officer as Lander tried to escort a defendant out of an immigration court docket.
Cuomo, his marketing campaign and allied teams in current weeks have been questioning Mamdani’s expertise in main a metropolis of greater than 8 million individuals.
“Zohran Mamdani’s a 33-year-old dangerously inexperienced legislator who’s handed simply three payments with a workers you possibly can match inside a New York elevator,” the narrator in a Cuomo marketing campaign advert blitz mentioned. “We want somebody able to roll. Andrew Cuomo managed a state and managed crises, from COVID to Trump.”
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Moreover, Clinton spotlighted Cuomo’s expertise in his endorsement assertion.
“New York Metropolis is dealing with main challenges. There’s a determined want for reasonably priced housing, homelessness is at a disaster degree, and public security should be restored. It’s crucial that New York chooses a mayor who has the flexibility, expertise, and expertise to do the job,” the previous president mentioned.
Clinton informed New York Metropolis voters to “not underestimate the complexity of significant challenges and the need that the following mayor has the {qualifications} to do the job. New Yorkers ought to select competence for a change. I’m assured Andrew can flip New York round.”
Cuomo was additionally lately endorsed by former three-term New York Metropolis mayor, billionaire entrepreneur and media magnate Michael Bloomberg.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks on the New York Metropolis District Council of Carpenters whereas campaigning for mayor of New York Metropolis on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Picture/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
The 67-year-old Cuomo has spent the previous 4 years combating to clear his title after 11 sexual harassment accusations – which he has repeatedly denied – compelled his resignation. He was additionally underneath investigation on the time for his dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic amid allegations his administration vastly understated COVID-related deaths at state nursing properties.
Final month, the Justice Division opened a legal investigation into Cuomo after Republicans accused him of mendacity to Congress concerning the selections he made as governor in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Whereas the first shouldn’t be till Tuesday, greater than 384,000 Democrats forged ballots in early voting, which ended on Sunday.
The winner of the Democratic Social gathering main is historically seen because the overwhelming frontrunner within the November normal election within the Democrat-dominated metropolis.
Nevertheless, this 12 months, the overall election marketing campaign could also be a bit extra unpredictable.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, who received election in 2021 as a Democrat, is working for re-election this 12 months as an unbiased candidate. (NYC Mayor’s Workplace)
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, a reasonable Democrat elected in 2021, is working for re-election as an Unbiased. Adams earlier this 12 months dropped his Democratic main bid as his approval rankings sank to historic lows.
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Adams’ ballot numbers had been sinking even earlier than he was indicted final 12 months on 5 counts, which accused the mayor of bribery and fraud as a part of an alleged “long-running” scheme to personally revenue from contacts with international officers.
The mayor made repeated overtures to President Donald Trump, and the Justice Division earlier this 12 months dismissed the corruption costs, so Adams might seemingly work with the Trump administration on its unlawful immigration crackdown.
