A day after Mayor Adams introduced he’s ending his re-election marketing campaign, Zohran Mamdani slammed Andrew Cuomo’s file as governor, Cuomo campaigned in Manhattan and a longtime Adams ally mentioned he’s already working the telephones to try to rally assist for the previous governor.
The mayor’s exit from the race on Sunday marked a dramatic and historic flip that has created a narrower discipline that might probably support Cuomo, who confronted a double-digit loss to Mamdani in lots of polls when Adams was nonetheless within the operating. Now not a candidate, Adams’ political and donor bases may begin migrating to Cuomo, given their shared reasonable political sensibilities and overlapping constituencies.
Frank Carone, Adams’ longtime political confidant who served as his reelection marketing campaign chairman, mentioned shortly after the mayor’s Sunday announcement that he plans to begin working not directly to assist get Cuomo elected.
Carone mentioned he hasn’t but determined which pro-Cuomo PAC he’s hoping to line up donors for, and a supply who works for Repair the Metropolis, the most important tremendous PAC boosting the ex-governor, mentioned there was no talks about Carone becoming a member of that outfit.
On Monday, Cuomo was additionally making calls to drum up donor assist forward of a fundraising deadline this week, his spokesperson mentioned.
“It’s the last day before the fundraising deadline, of course he is,” Cuomo spokesman Wealthy Azzopardi mentioned of the ex-governor’s donor outreach, referring to the Marketing campaign Finance Board submitting interval that ended Monday. The spokesman added that Cuomo additionally did a number of tv interviews and met with voters in Manhattan to kick off the week.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a press convention at Metropolis Workers Union headquarters on W. 14th St. in Manhattan on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.(Barry Williams/ New York Each day Information)
In the meantime, Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee polling as the favourite to win November’s election, went on the assault Monday morning, slamming the previous governor for slashing $65 million from a rental voucher program as governor whereas insisting Adams’ shake-up wouldn’t influence the outcomes of race.
“Nothing has changed,” the front-runner mentioned at a Washington Heights press convention. “Because it’s not just about who’s on the ballot. It’s about what’s on the ballot. And what we see still on that ballot, showcased by Andrew Cuomo, is a record of broken promises, a record of disgrace.”
Mamdani targeted most of his press convention on Cuomo’s state funding cuts to a rental voucher program, often known as Benefit, he made as governor in 2011. These cuts prompted then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg to drag the plug on this system within the metropolis. This system, which started in 2007, provided subsidies for as much as two years to assist these in homeless shelters pay for residences of their very own.
In a press release, Azzopardi dismissed the 2011 cuts as a “drop in the bucket” that occurred years in the past throughout a time when the state was going through a $10 billion funds shortfall. “That funding has been replaced and increased many times over through other rental assistance programs,” Azzopardi mentioned.
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New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, left, chats with Frank Carone outdoors Metropolis Corridor on Nov. 1, 2022. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Each day Information)
Individually, Cuomo’s marketing campaign put out a press launch accusing Mamdani of “lying” by telling the New York Instances earlier this month that he would apologize to the NYPD for calling it racist however not publicly following by.
“He owes the public an explanation as to why he broke the promise he made 18 days ago to apologize for calling the NYPD racist and a threat to public safety,” Azzopardi mentioned.
In a press release Cuomo referred to as Mamdani a “33-year old, dangerously inexperienced social media influencer who is not up to the task of being mayor.”
Mamdani’s workforce responded later within the day with its personal broadside.
“While Zohran Mamdani stood alongside a single mother who was driven into a homeless shelter as a result of Andrew Cuomo’s cuts to Advantage, the disgraced former governor spent his day hiding behind closed doors, working the phones,” Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for Mamdani, mentioned, referring to a girl the candidate introduced with him to his press convention who turned homeless after Cuomo’s Benefit cuts.
Initially Revealed: September 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM EDT
