Candidates for mayor of New York City Voters are making a last-ditch effort Monday to get voters to the polls, as the race for leadership in America’s largest city draws to a close.
before Election Day is TuesdayDemocratic candidate Zahran Mamdani, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa They all spent the final stage of the race They are campaigning at a feverish pace across the city’s five boroughs as they make their case to succeed outgoing Mayor Eric Adams.
In recent days, Mamdani went dancing with seniors on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Cuomo dined in the Eastern European neighborhood of Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, and Sliwa went to a mosque in the Bronx.
Mamdania 34-year-old Democratic socialist who would become the city’s first Muslim mayor, rocked the political world when he defeated Cuomo in the primary with an energetic campaign focused on making the city a less expensive place to live.
As the race neared the finish line, he continued to post viral social media videos and ran a relentless ground game, while warning his progressive fan base against becoming complacent and sending as many supporters to the polls as possible.
Cuomo is trying to return to political office after resigning as governor four years ago in the wake of a barrage of sexual harassment accusations, which he denies. Now running as an independent, the 67-year-old Mamdani has turned in recent days to courting Republican voters to bolster his centrist base, presenting himself as the only candidate who can stop Mamdani.
Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group and a longtime fixture on New York’s airwaves, He seeks to corrupt Chances for both Democrats. He was roaming the streets and subways in his distinctive red hat spreading his message of public safety.