Jun. 30, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Even though Zohran Mamdani — a Democratic socialist Queens lawmaker — appears to have decisively won last week’s Democratic mayoral primary, his margin of victory will not become entirely clear until Tuesday when the city Board of Elections is set to run ranked-choice voting tabulations. Mamdani was ahead…
Jun. 25, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist, shocked the world on Tuesday night with his apparent defeat of Andrew Cuomo, a moderate, in the Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams, preliminary results from the city Board of Elections indicate. The outcome saw a relative political newcomer,…
Jun. 23, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The two leading Democratic mayoral candidates, Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani, traded blows during a series of radio interviews on Monday morning, with just hours before the June 24 primary. The two candidates launched their broadsides during a blitz of interviews with WNYC host Brian Lehrer, in which…
Jun. 19, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller The leading candidates in New York City’s June 24 Democratic mayoral primary hit the campaign trail on Thursday to attack each other. Mamdani hits Cuomo on PAC money Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist who is consistently polling in second place, held an event in Astoria…
Jun. 18, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller, Robert Pozarycki, Christian Murray & Karmina Fonseca Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still the frontrunner in the June 24 Democratic primary to replace Mayor Eric Adams amid early voting and with Election Day fast approaching. Cuomo, who is seeking a political revival after stepping down in 2021 following…
Jun. 17, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Progressive stalwart US Sen. Bernie Sanders is throwing his considerable weight behind mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and comptroller candidate Justin Brannan a week ahead of the June 24 Democratic primary. Mamdani, a Democratic socialist Queens Assembly member who is polling in second place, has been surging in the final…
Jun. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Progressive city Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday declared that he is now in a three-way battle for the Democratic mayoral nomination with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani after a panel convened by the New York Times Editorial Board dubbed him the “best overall pick”…
Jun. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller A new poll of the June 24 mayoral Democratic primary released Wednesday night shows Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani leading moderate Andrew Cuomo by four points. This marks the first time any survey in the race has had a candidate eclipse Cuomo’s consistent lead. At the same time, however, Team Cuomo pointed…
Jun. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Tuesday that he is backing ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, despite past differences between the two when they were both in office. Bloomberg, whose 2002 to 2013 tenure overlapped with Cuomo’s, said in a Tuesday statement that the former…
Jun. 4, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller For the first time this election cycle, all of the major Democratic mayoral candidates appeared on the same stage as frontrunner Andrew Cuomo Wednesday night. What resulted was a messy two-hour brawl in which Cuomo’s rivals hit him on all sides, and the former governor launched his own…