Former New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has introduced that he’ll run for New York Metropolis mayor as a third-party candidate after his Democratic major defeat final month.
In a campaign video Monday, Cuomo mentioned that he’ll keep within the race after conceding the Democratic ticket to Meeting member Zohran Mamdani. The democratic socialist won the city’s primary by 12 proportion factors after a shock weekslong climb within the polls.
“As my grandfather used to say, whenever you get knocked down, be taught the lesson and choose your self again up and get within the sport and that’s what I’m going to do,” Cuomo says within the video.
Cuomo reasoned that solely 13% of New Yorkers voted within the June major and criticized Mamdani as providing “slick slogans, however no actual options.”
“I’m in it to win it,” he says within the video.
Cuomo will seem on ballots underneath the “Combat and Ship” celebration that he created as a backup plan earlier this yr, in line with the Wall Street Journal. The celebration goals to “enchantment to disillusioned Democrats, in addition to to independents and Republicans,” his campaign mentioned again in Could.
Recent polling by Slingshot Methods exhibits Mamdani persevering with to guide the overall election with 35% of votes, adopted by Cuomo with 25%, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa with 14% and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams with 11%.
Mamdani on Monday mentioned he welcomes “everybody to this race” and that he stays assured in his capability to safe town’s vote.
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“Whereas Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams journey over themselves to make offers in again rooms with billionaires, we’re centered on combating for working New Yorkers,” he mentioned during an appearance with a neighborhood musicians union.
Cuomo had dominated his Democratic major opponents for months within the polls and was broadly seen because the front-runner. He fell behind Mamdani just some weeks earlier than June’s major, nevertheless, with Mamdani receiving a flood of grassroots donations and new supporters, together with fellow democratic socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Cuomo has reportedly pledged that if he doesn’t stay Mamdani’s prime challenger by early September, two months earlier than the Nov. 4 election, he’ll drop out of the race. He may even encourage the opposite challengers, together with fellow impartial Jim Walden, to do the identical, three individuals acquainted with his selections advised The New York Times.
