Cuomo brings together Manhattan’s commercial support against Mamdani in the town hall race

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo met at least 80 business leaders in Manhattan on Tuesday while pressing support against the candidate of the Democrat mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, increases with less than two months until the election day.

Cuomo’s large -scale business meeting came like the New York Times / Siena College survey was led from September 2 to 6 and Released Tuesday morning Mamdani revealed that the package of hopes of mayors at 46% and far exceeding Cuomo, at only 24%. However, the survey suggested an extremely tight breed in a hypothetical face-to-head confrontation between Mamdani and Cuomo, with Mamdani, winning 48% of the votes against 44% Cuomo.

The former governor spoke with business leaders in the pool space in the Seagram building in Midtown Manhattan for about 25 minutes Tuesday morning on his way to the victory in the stormy race of the New York town hall.

While men and women of all ages dressed in expensive business outfits left the event space, a man who works in finance told Fox News that an “energetic” Cuomo assured the crowd that he believed that outgoing mayor Eric Adams could abandon the race this week.

Mamdani competes with abandonment despite the long chances in the battle of the mayor of New York

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo talks to Capitol Hill journalists on June 11, 2024. (Al Drago / Getty Images)

“New York is not for sale. Behind the scenes of Donald Trump and the billionaire class turn against it, because New Yorkers see Zohran Mamdani is the only candidate to fight to make the most affordable country in the country,” said the latest survey.

Trump says Cuomo had a “good blow” to beat Mamdani in the elections of the mayor of New York

The survey follows last week Report by the New York Times Indicating President Donald Trump’s advisers, floating roles in the administration for Adams and the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa if they abandon the race.

“I don’t think you can win unless you have only one,” Trump told journalists before a White House dinner on Thursday, while denying that he personally encouraged any candidate to abandon.

Sliwa and Adams said their commitment to stay in the race until November.

Cuomo rejected the survey when questioned by journalists on Tuesday, arguing that he was “none of them seriously”. He said that even if Adams and Sliwa stay in the race, “people will not waste their vote” and that will finally become a race for two people between him and Mamdani.

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, presents himself to his re -election as an independent candidate this year. (Julia Demaoree Nikhinson / The Associated Press)

While the last survey indicates the opposite, while Cuomo only acts 24% of the votes when Adams and Sliwa stay in the race, a person who attended Tuesday meeting with business leaders told Fox News that Cuomo said he could win even if Adams stayed in the race. Cuomo defended this assertion by addressing journalists on Tuesday.

Cuomo said it was not only businessmen who attended Tuesday morning meeting, but “people from all overview” who are “worried about the possibility that Mamdani wins”.

“There is no comparison. It is like being in a ring with Muhammad Ali against an amateur,” said the businessman to Fox News Digital, defending that Cuomo “knows what he is doing” and “will get these people out of the street” and “put them in mental institutions”.

Cuomo, Adams exchange shots on who should abandon the race for Mamdani for the mayor of New York

Marc Altheim, the owner of the Yoga studio, Know Yoga Know Bliss, in Manhasset, NY, spoke to Fox News leaving the meeting with Cuomo on Tuesday morning. He said he was previously the founding partner of a real estate development company, Atlantic Development Group, in New York.

“I am here becauserew is obviously the best candidate to direct this city. I am very concerned that New York is decimated if the other guy takes office. And I think he is very, very important that people understand what Andrew is talking about. It is to create a better, safer from New York. He’s for the police.

Altheim added that Mamdani has “no idea what he does”.

New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani spoke with supporters during a Canvass launch event at Prospect Park on August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

“He has never succeeded. So for me, I want a mayor who is competent. I don’t want someone who only pays lips and gives things for free,” he said, while adding that it is time for Adams to leave the race.

Cuomo’s thrust to consolidate support against Mamdani also comes while another independent candidate Jim Walden abandoned the race last week and urged the other candidates to To unite against Mamdani.

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Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Who joined forces against “the oligarchy” with Mamdani in Brooklyn on Saturday responded to X The New York TimesWho first reported the details of the Cuomo meeting with business leaders on Tuesday.

“The oligarchs were panicked. They will spend as much as to try to defeat Zohran Mamdani. They have the money. We have the people. Together, elected Zohran and prevented billionaires from buying elections”, ” Sanders said on x.

Kirill Clark of Fox News contributed to this report.