Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is staying within the race to grow to be the subsequent mayor of New York Metropolis after struggling an embarrassing loss to socialist Zohran Mamdani within the Democratic major.
In a video posted Monday on social media, Mr. Cuomo mentioned the Democratic major didn’t go the way in which he hoped, however he isn’t executed.
“As my grandfather used to say, if you get knocked down, study the lesson, and choose your self again up and get into the sport, and that’s what I’m going to do,” Mr. Cuomo mentioned. “The battle to avoid wasting our metropolis isn’t over — solely 13% of New Yorkers voted within the June major. The final election is in November, and I’m in it to win it.”
He saved the concentrate on stopping Mr. Mamdani, a state assemblyman who rattled the nationwide Democratic Get together institution along with his socialist-inspired platform that features free bus service and government-run grocery shops.
“My opponent, Mr Mamdani, gives slick slogans, however no actual options,” Mr. Cuomo mentioned.
Mayor Eric Adams, one other Democrat working as an impartial, is in search of reelection. Curtis Sliwa, a Republican, and Jim Walden, an impartial, are additionally working.
Mr. Cuomo is predicted to push for the opposite candidates within the race to rally in mid-September behind whoever emerges within the polls because the strongest various to Mr. Mamdani.
Mr. Walden got here up with the thought. Nevertheless, Mr. Adams and Mr. Silwa have mentioned they plan to remain within the race by means of Election Day.
Mr. Adams dismissed Mr. Cuomo’s newest plan, saying he has a confirmed monitor file of not holding his phrase, and saying he “had his alternative.”
“You’ll be able to’t belief the man. The man will say and do something to get elected,” Mr. Adams informed reporters this week. “Andrew ought to do for as soon as in his life, do what’s finest for the town and never what’s finest for him.”
In 2021, Mr. Cuomo left the governor’s workplace in shame after a collection of sexual harassment allegations. He denied that he mistreated ladies and mentioned the strain to oust him, which President Biden and most Democrats supported, was politically motivated.
In the meantime, Mr. Adams was indicted on federal bribery and corruption fees final yr, which weakened his re-election odds.
Seeing a gap, Mr. Cuomo introduced in March that he was making a political comeback by working to unseat Mr. Adams, who caught a break earlier this yr when the Trump Justice Division determined to not pursue the costs in opposition to him.
Mr. Cuomo loved the help of the Repair the Metropolis tremendous PAC, which had the monetary backing of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and different well-heeled donors, and spent greater than $22 million on his behalf.
However his political baggage and ties to the celebration institution proved to be an excessive amount of to beat in a Democratic major by which Mr. Mamdani anchored his message in making the town extra reasonably priced, and caught fireplace.
Mr. Mamdani defeated Mr. Cuomo by almost 13 factors within the celebration’s ranked-choice major.
