Overview

• Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo formally announced on July 14 that he will run in the November mayoral election on the Fight and Deliver ballot line.
• Cuomo declared “I am in it to win it” in a campaign video and accused Zohran Mamdani’s platform of offering slick slogans but no real solutions.
• Under New York’s ballot rules the race now features four major candidates: Mamdani, Cuomo, independent incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
• A recent Manhattan Institute poll shows Mamdani leading with about 40 percent support to Cuomo’s 24 percent, Adams’s 15 percent and Sliwa’s 14 percent.
• Cuomo has pledged to exit the contest by mid-September if he is not polling as the strongest challenger to Mamdani in an effort to prevent splitting the anti-socialist vote.