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Adams and Cuomo Trade Barbs at Parades as Mamdani Maintains Poll Lead

Their sparring at Bronx and Queens parades highlights personal attacks over past scandals, leaving moderates scrambling to counter Zohran Mamdani’s double-digit advantage

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Zohran Mamdani speaks during a watch party for his primary election in New York on June 25.
Mayor Eric Adams and New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch survey seized weapons before speaking with reporters in New York's Bronx borough on July 27.
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Overview

  • At Bronx and Queens parades, Adams criticized Cuomo’s 2021 resignation during a sexual harassment probe, and Cuomo labeled Adams’s independent bid as an ego-driven spoiler for Mamdani
  • A recent Wick Insights poll of 500 likely voters shows Mamdani at 39 percent, Cuomo at 21 percent, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 18 percent, Adams at 9 percent and 13 percent undecided
  • Both men are mounting independent bids following Cuomo’s primary defeat to Mamdani and Adams’s dismissed federal bribery and fraud charges, transforming the November contest into a multi-candidate race
  • Adams has seized on Cuomo’s COVID-19 nursing home policy that contributed to thousands of deaths, and Cuomo has attacked Adams’s deal with President Trump that led to dropped federal corruption charges
  • Growing calls from moderates and business leaders urge non-Mamdani candidates to unify their campaigns to avoid splitting the vote against the socialist frontrunner