Zohran Mamdanani and Andrew Cuomo degenerated their attacks after Eric Adams left NYC Mayoral Race

The candidates for the town hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, intensified their attacks against each other against the campaign campaign on Monday, less than 24 hours after the exit of the mayor Eric Adams of the race actually set up a confrontation of two in the last weeks of the race.

Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, criticized Cuomo, the former governor who presents himself as independent, on his “shame file”. Meanwhile, Cuomo exploded declarations criticizing Mamdani, an assembly of the Democratic Socialist State, on a litany of his past statements and challenged him to a list of debates before the November elections.

The back and forth suggests that Mamdani, who held a constant advance in the polls, aims to deny Cuomo on the momentum he is looking for after Adams abandoned. Cuomo hopes that he will be able to break an anti-Mamdani coalition which would allow him to fill the gap with just over five weeks until the election day.

But given the relatively low position of Adams in the ballot boxes, the political strategists watching the race declared closely that they were skeptical about the end of his decision to end his campaign to modify the status of Mamdani as a favorite.

“The fact that this happened when we are five weeks old, it suggests that there is not much opportunity to considerably change the story of this race,” said Basil Smikle, a democratic strategist who was previously executive director of the Democratic Party of New York. Smikle also noted that early voting begins on October 25.

“Voters are really starting to register,” he continued. “Lots of momentum was built [for Mamdani] Since the primary. Not only has he collected more money, but he also had many recommendations. There must be a truly convincing decision for the voter to radically change the way they see this race – and I don’t know it’s possible. “”

Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the June primary of Democrat, encouraging Cuomo to continue his offer as an independent. Adams was elected Democrat in 2021, but decided to request a re -election as an independence after federal accusations of corruption that the Ministry of Justice finally sought to reject.

The public survey of the race carried out before the withdrawal of Adams showed Mamdani well in front of Cuomo, with the republican candidate Curtis Sliwa dragging even more behind and Adams in fourth row.

Even with Adams out of the race, Cuomo has no simple path to consolidate the anti-madani vote.

On the one hand, the name of Adams will remain on the ballots this fall, because his decision to abandon came after the deadline to print them.

And while surveys that have been conducted to test that voters support in the event of ADAMS have shown that CUOMO benefited, a large number of these voters also flock to Sliwa. These surveys indicate that Cuomo’s strongest shot against the mayor would come from a head-to-head race against Mamdani.

Mamdani, during a brief campaign event in Washington Heights, in Uptown Manhattan, tore Cuomo on what he said he was reduced to his administration of governor made to a state housing program that had provided rental grants to people who lived in shelters for homeless.

Standing next to a woman who, according to him, was affected by these cuts, Mamdani said: “What we still see on this ballot presented by Andrew Cuomo is a record of broken promises, a record of shame.”

He also said that a Cuomo victory “would open the way to Donald Trump’s agenda.”

During the hour, Cuomo’s campaign expelled an email criticizing Mamdani for what he said that his refusal to apologize for calling the “racist” New York police service.

Cuomo frequently attacked Mamdani for comments in 2020, when he called the nypd “racist” and “anti-Queer”.

Cuomo also tested Mamdani to five debates – one in each arrondissement of New York – before the November 4 elections. Cuomo also attacked Mamdani in a press release as “an influencer of the 33 -year -old social media, dangerously inexperienced who is not up to the mayor”, calling it “unqualified” and “unreliable”.

Mamdani recently softened the comments of years old on the NYPD, saying that he had made them “height of frustration” after the death of George Floyd in police custody in 2020, and he said this month that he would apologize for the remarks.

Later Monday, during a candidates forum in a studio in the Apollo Theater, Mamdani and Cuomo, appearing separately, adopted less hostile approaches, discussing questions such as affordability, education, homelessness and how to deal with the threats of the Trump administration.

The event, organized by a group of non -profit volunteer services presented as a mayor forum to contact black women, put the candidates at the front and the center in front of one of the most crucial voting blocks in the city.

Cuomo and Adams had both leaning on New York’s black communities to get support. An analysis of the New York Times of the results of the Democratic primary in June revealed, for example, that Cuomo bore more than twice as many constituencies where more than 70% of residents are black than Mamdani.

Mamdani focused on making breakthroughs with various black communities in recent months, focusing on the affordability of his campaign at the center of these efforts.

The surveys published this month by the New York Times / Siena College and the Quinnipiac University, before Adams fell, both showed that Mamdani led Cuomo among black voters.

Meanwhile, Trump weighed on the race on Monday, threatening on social networks to retain federal funding in New York if Mamdani was elected in November.

“He will have problems with Washington as no mayor in the history of our former city in the past. Remember, he needs money on my part, as president, in order to make all his false communist promises,” Trump wrote in a long post on Truth Social. “He will not get it, so what is the point of voting for him?”

Trump in recent weeks, has also criticized Sliwa, saying this month in a television interview that he was “not exactly the prospecting hours”.

Sliwa, in his appearance at the Monday event in Harlem, approached the insult and rejected any innuendo that he would follow Adams when leaving the race.

“Guess what, I don’t drop off,” he said while raising my voice. “Let the people vote on November 4.”