Regardless of shedding Democratic main, Cuomo stays in New York mayoral race

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will keep within the New York Metropolis mayoral race as an impartial candidate regardless of his gorgeous loss within the Democratic Occasion’s main election to self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.

“The battle to save lots of our metropolis isn’t over,” Cuomo stated in a video printed on Monday on the X social media platform. “The overall election is in November and I’m in it to win it.”

Mamdani, a little-known member of the New York state meeting when he launched his marketing campaign, scored a shock victory over Cuomo, a centrist Democrat who served because the state’s governor for 10 years earlier than resigning in 2021 amid sexual abuse allegations.

Mamdani, a 33-year-old Uganda-born Muslim of Indian descent, gained 56% of votes versus Cuomo’s 44% within the ranked-choice voting system utilized in final month’s main.

Cuomo, 67, a veteran politician who grew to become an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump through the international pandemic of 2020-21, stated within the video that solely a small share of the voters voted within the main.

He additionally hopes to make Mamdani’s lack of expertise right into a marketing campaign subject.

“My opponent Mr. Mamdani affords slick slogans, however no actual options,” Cuomo stated within the video.

Mamdani and Cuomo will face the present mayor, Eric Adams, and the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, the founding father of the Guardian Angels anti-crime patrol, in November’s normal election.

Adams determined towards working within the Democratic main, along with his recognition sliding within the wake of a sequence of corruption scandals and the notion that he was beholden to Trump after the administration dropped federal expenses towards him.

Mamdani’s victory has brought on unease amongst some Democrats, anxious that his left-of-center political opinions could make New York Metropolis a simple goal for Republican assaults.

Some Democrats are additionally involved that Mamdani could set off an exodus of companies and rich residents from town, the nation’s monetary capital and its largest inhabitants centre.

The day after Mamdani’s victory, Trump referred to as him a “100% Communist Lunatic,” whereas the Republican celebration’s congressional marketing campaign arm promised to tie him to each susceptible Democrat in subsequent yr’s midterm elections.

Minutes after Cuomo’s video was launched, Mamdani responded by posting a hyperlink to a donation web page for his marketing campaign. Inside an hour, his publish obtained over 26,000 likes, in contrast with round 800 for Cuomo’s video.

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