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Related: About this forumWhat It Looks Like As Andrew Cuomo Closes In on Mayoralty
NEW YORK There is one dominant force in the race for New York City mayor. And its not the incumbent, Eric Adams, whose embrace of President Donald Trump doomed his already difficult shot at the Democratic primary.
Its Andrew Cuomo.
The former governor of New York is emerging from the shadows of his past, four years after he resigned his governorship amid sexual harassment allegations he has vehemently denied.
Many Democrats in the five boroughs seem willing to forgive and forget. Cuomo has led every poll by wide margins and he has more money behind his bid than anyone else.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/24/nyc-mayor-race-cuomo-mamdani-images-00352470

Callie1979
(730 posts)I guess it could have been worse; Anthony Weiner COULD have run too
Lovie777
(18,668 posts)I remember his daily briefings re COVID. He gave me hope and for that I hold a sincere thanks.
aurora the great
(127 posts)Same here. Thanks for sharing this!
no_hypocrisy
(51,716 posts)I'll take Cuomo over Adams AND Curtis Sliwa, the former bloviating talk show host.
DAngelo136
(341 posts)NO! We don't want Andrew Cuomo as mayor. Don't believe the hype and the hype machine that is the NYC media.
https://indypendent.org/2025/02/new-yorkers-shouldnt-fall-for-cuomo-again-heres-why/
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/cuomos-biggest-political-problem-everybody-hates-him.html
We have an actual opportunity to elect an actual Socialist as Mayor here: https://jacobin.com/2025/04/mamdani-new-york-mayoral-election
If you give a damn about AOC and Bernie, THIS is the man and the election you should be supporting.
Because we now have ranked voting in NYC, this the tack people should be taking: