MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) — A number of new polls present frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holding onto a sizeable lead with simply 5 days till the election, however Andrew Cuomo insists he is the one with essentially the most momentum heading into subsequent Tuesday.
Cuomo got here to a Harlem senior middle within the pouring rain on Thursday, the place he joined with Mayor Eric Adams, insisting that New York is going through an existential management disaster.
“Our metropolis can not go backwards, of us. That is what that is about,” Adams stated. “And for me to step apart or my need to proceed the work that I needed to do on this metropolis is as a result of I wish to hand the baton off to somebody that might run the race and has the expertise to run the race.”
“Yeah, it sounds good. Flying buses, free meals, freezing rents. It is all unfaithful. It’s all unfaithful. There isn’t any Santa Claus,” Cuomo stated. “He has no plan, and he has no capacity or expertise to perform something on this metropolis.”
Cuomo was additionally joined by numerous Muslim group leaders defending Cuomo from being known as Islamophobic.
“In relation to the Muslim group in New York Metropolis and New York State, no two folks have stood up and fought for our Muslim group greater than Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams,” stated Mona Davids, writer of Little Africa Information. “We wish to be clear that there isn’t any Islamophobia in New York Metropolis.”
Within the remaining days of the marketing campaign, Cuomo is pushing his expertise, however it’s a pitch that could be lacking the mark.
A Marist Ballot launched in a single day offers Democratic nominee Mamdani with 48% of possible voters adopted by Cuomo with 32%, Republican Curtis Sliwa with 16% and three% undecided.
It isn’t a lot completely different from Thursday’s Quinnipiac Ballot, and an Emerson Ballot launched Thursday morning offers Mamdani an excellent larger lead of 25 factors.
Mamdani toured a senior middle on Thursday, pitching his signature challenge to the town’s aged residents.
“Generally I have been pissed off by the best way by which folks suppose price of residing is a youngster’s challenge,” Mamdani stated. “As a result of what I’ve truly discovered, repeatedly, is that price of residing is affecting each single New Yorker, irrespective of their age.”
Within the night, Mamdani appeared at LaGuardia Airport courting assist from New Yorkers who work the in a single day shift.
“We regularly take into consideration the work day as if it is 9-5 however there are such a lot of New Yorkers who as we’re heading residence, they’re heading to work,” Mamdani stated. “These are the very New Yorkers who’re missed by those that are serving in positions of energy.”
Regardless of his ballot numbers, Curtis Sliwa continues to marketing campaign onerous, with a sequence of appearances and interviews that started in a Midtown subway station.
“Belief me, I am essentially the most seen particular person on the market. You may spot me a mile away with that purple beret,” Sliwa stated. “If there was this tsunami of individuals yelling at me, ‘Drop out, drop out, simply ain’t taking place.'”
In the meantime, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg pledged $1.5 million to the Repair the Metropolis Tremendous PAC supporting Cuomo. That is along with the $8 million he gave in June. It is substantial cash, the likes of which Sliwa has not seen throughout his marketing campaign.
“One other day, one other billionaire throws hundreds of thousands into the race,” Sliwa stated. “I’d counsel Michael Bloomberg who wasted $8 million within the main on Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous main marketing campaign, that he may have spent it to assist the homeless and emotionally disturbed within the subway.”
Mamdani did not appear phased by any of it.
“We confronted round $25 million in opposition spending within the main,” he stated. “We noticed a deluge of mailers, commercials, radio present hits. We overcame that with 52,000 volunteers knocking on 1.6 million doorways, 2.1 million telephones, and profitable a Democratic main with essentially the most votes in metropolis historical past. As Taylor Swift says, I’ve seen this movie earlier than. However in contrast to she says, we truly just like the ending.”
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