Overview

• Mamdani met for about 90 minutes in Bedford-Stuyvesant with Hakeem Jeffries, Rep. Yvette Clarke and roughly 20 clergy leaders, but neither lawmaker offered an endorsement.
• The pro-Adams super PAC Empower NYC launched 15-second digital spots casting Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo as soft on crime, with organizers describing a six-figure ad buy.
• His campaign said he does not support a national DSA plank to end all misdemeanor offenses and asserted misdemeanors would still be enforced, though the clarification was offered off the record.
• Multiple recent polls, including a Siena survey, show Mamdani leading the fractured November field by double-digit margins over Cuomo, Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams.
• Mayor Eric Adams called Mamdani “a communist,” a label outlets noted misstates democratic socialism and has been used by national critics attacking the frontrunner.