If Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the city’s Tuesday mayoral elections, Republican President Donald Trump says he will restrict federal funding for the city.
If Mamdani wins the election, Trump declared on his Truth Social platform on Monday that “it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, aside from the very minimum as required.”
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According to polls, Mamdani is running against Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who is the party’s nominee.
Mamdani held a 45.8% lead over Cuomo, who had a 31.1 percent advantage, and a 28.5-point lead over Sliwa, who had a 17.3 percent lead.
After months of back-and-forth barbs, social media hits, and heated debates, the mayoral candidates raced across New York City’s five boroughs on Monday for the final day of campaign.
Mamdani kicked off the day with a speech at City Hall as the closely-watched election day approached. He led a sunrise walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, flanked by hundreds of supporters.
Cuomo, on the other hand, attacked socialism in the Bronx, visited senior citizens in Chinatown, and allegedly called Mamdani a “poser” off an X-post.
And while speaking at a subway station where a woman was killed last year on a train, Republican candidate Sliwa waved his signature red hat to supporters in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood.
The two candidates’ competing campaigns in New York City reflect their positions in the political landscape: the son of another former governor, deeply rooted in the liberal Democratic political establishment, and the son of a young, under-respected assemblyman who would be the city’s first Muslim, first person born in Africa, and first person of South Asian descent to lead.
The New York City Board of Elections reports that the mayoral race has received a record 735, 317 early votes cast over the past nine days, more than four times the election’s total for 2021.
“This is our time,” the statement read.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old assemblyman from New York, has energized the city’s residents with a multilingual, optimistic campaign that promised free buses, rent freezes, and universal childcare.
In a 60 Minutes interview, he once more stated that Trump had indicated his support for Cuomo. Cuomo has made an appeal to conservatives in recent weeks to raise his polling numbers.
Our city will plunge deeper into the darkness that has made it impossible for working people to lead dignified lives if Cuomo is elected mayor, Mamdani said.
Mamdani appeared to applaud the significant change in New York’s politics in his City Hall speech on Monday.
Few people in this city thought they could win, and what that would mean for a city that has long focused solely on the wealthy and powerful at the expense of those who endure sunrises and sunsets, Mamdani said.
The crowd erupted in celebrations of “Our time is now” moments later!
In his final hours of campaigning, Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 after an independent state investigation revealed he had engaged in a pattern of sexually harassing women, attacked Mamdani’s democratic socialist promises, comparing them to left-wing governments in Latin America.
In Venezuela, “Socialism didn’t work.” In Cuba, socialism failed. In New York City, Cuomo asserted that socialism would not work. However, Maddani has self-described as a “democratic socialist.”
