Overview
- A Victory Insights survey from late October shows Zohran Mamdani at 46.7%, Andrew Cuomo at 28.6% as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa at 16.2% in the three-way contest.
- Barack Obama phoned Mamdani to praise his campaign and offered to serve as a sounding board if he wins, according to reports citing Reuters.
- President Donald Trump has attacked Mamdani as a communist and warned of consequences for New York if he is elected.
- Republican Representatives Randy Fine and Andy Ogles asked the Justice Department to review Mamdani’s 2018 naturalization and consider denaturalization.
- Mamdani’s operation reports more than 90,000 volunteers mobilizing young and multicultural voters, and his platform emphasizes a rent freeze, 200,000 affordable homes, free city buses, public groceries, and universal childcare.