Overview
- Late polling shows Zohran Mamdani still ahead as early voting concludes and campaigns turn to Election Day.
- Barack Obama spoke with Mamdani by phone, praised his campaign and offered to be a sounding board, yet did not endorse or appear with him.
- Adviser Patrick Gaspard cast the lack of endorsement as consistent with Obama’s post‑presidency practice, even as critics highlighted past exceptions.
- Mamdani intensified outreach with late‑night visits to clubs and bars, multilingual appeals, a NYC Marathon stop, and an Astoria event alongside Gov. Kathy Hochul.
- The three‑way contest features Andrew Cuomo running as an independent and Republican Curtis Sliwa, and a Mamdani victory would make him the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in more than a century.