The New York mayor race sees Mamdani directing Cuomo by two figures in the polls

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he is convinced that he could defeat the candidate and favorite of the Democratic Party Zohran Mamdani in a race for two candidates for the mayor of New York.

“I believe that I beat the deputy,” said Cuomo in a recent interview with Bloomberg News, while he underlined Mamdani, the 33 -year -old Democratic Socialist State legislator who shocked the political world in June by exceeding Cuomo and nine other candidates in the Democrat primary.

But Cuomo, the former governor with three mandates who resigned in 2021 in the midst of several scandals, said that to defeat Mamdani, there must be a successful effort for “Winnow” the mayor field in five current candidates in the most populous city in the country.

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The town hall candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks during a press conference on August 4, 2025 in New York. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

Almost all recent surveys in New York mayor indicate that Mamdani has a healthy two -digit lead on Cuomo and the other contenders in the general elections in November.

Mamdani was 37% support in the last survey, a survey of the Siena research institute with small sample carried out from August 4 to 7, with Cuomo at 23%.

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The co-founder of Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, who, for a second consecutive election, is the republican candidate for the town hall, took support of 12%, with Mayor Eric Adams, The besieged holder who announced earlier this year that he would ask for a re -election as an independent candidate, at 7%.

The candidate of the mayor of the Democratic Party, Zohran Mamdani, took a photo with a supporter during an anti-Trump event on Staten Island on August 13, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor, presents himself as independent.

Walden earlier this summer, proposed that an independent investigation be conducted in September to determine which candidate would have the best blow to defeat Mamdani, the other candidates agreeing to abandon.

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While Cuomo partially adopted the proposal, claiming that he would abandon if Adams was ahead of him in pre -electoral surveys, Adams and Sliwa did not sign.

Mayor Eric Adams officially launches his independent re -election offer on June 26, 2025, in New York. (AP)

“The people who run – they are harmful to our city and the progress we have made. And I owe the New Yorkers to make them pass my story and to carry out a campaign,” said Adams this week in an interview with politico while he is again committed to staying in the race.

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Sliwa, in a Renard business The interview on Wednesday, rejected “this idea of everyone abandons” and argued that “if we debate the problems, we will weaken Zohran Mamdani”.

Mamdani has achieved a main victory thanks to an energetic campaign that has emphasized the affordability and high cost of New York. He was fed by an army of basic supporters and the support of the best national progressive champions, including representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

Mamdani Zings Cuomo in housing stabilized to rent during the anti-Trump Tour stop

Mamdani has made intelligent use of social media platforms, including Tiktok, while he was engaging in low propagation voters. He proposed to eliminate the prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, making rents from Cuny (University of the City of New York), freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycares” for children up to 5 years and the establishment of grocery stores managed by the government.

The candidates for the town hall of New York Zohran Mamdani, Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa. (Getty Images)

Mamdani, benefiting from an advance in the polls, now forms his political fire on the biggest Boogeyman in New York dominated by the Democrats – President Donald Trump.

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This week’s candidate is in New York furrows during a “five arrondissements against Trump” tour.

“My administration will be the worst nightmare of Donald Trump,” said Mamdani last week, before the tour.