NYC Mayoral Candidates Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa.
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With just below two weeks to go till the beginning of New York Metropolis’s early voting interval, the three main candidates for mayor are starting to make their last pitch to voters.
The remaining candidates — Democratic nominee and Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, impartial candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa — are a narrower discipline since Mayor Eric Adams dropped his impartial bid for reelection.
Right here is how the candidates spent Sunday on the marketing campaign path.
Cuomo endorsed by 70 religion leaders
Cuomo, who’s trying to redeem himself in November’s normal election following an surprising main defeat by the hands of Mamdani, boasted on Sunday of the endorsements of 70 reverends, pastors, bishops, and apostles throughout New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs.
“Faith leaders are the backbone of our communities: they feed the hungry, lift up families, and help heal our city’s soul,” Cuomo mentioned. “I am honored to have the support of so many respected pastors, bishops, and apostles who share a mission to make New York safer, stronger, and more compassionate. Together, we will rebuild this city from the ground up, with faith, hope, and action.”
The endorsers embody 18 leaders from Brooklyn, 36 from The Bronx, seven from Manhattan, three from Queens, and three from Staten Island. Within the main, Cuomo was the highest vote-getter in Staten Island and The Bronx, shedding to Mamdani in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Along with endorsements from religion leaders, the previous governor boasted an endorsement from the New York State Italian American Political Motion Committee.
Cuomo didn’t make any public marketing campaign stops on Sunday. Though the candidate’s polling has improved since Adams partially cleared the sphere late final month, Cuomo continues to be polling considerably behind Mamdani with 23 days to go till Election Day on Nov. 4.
Mamdani criticized for overseas donations
Mamdani had no public marketing campaign schedule for Sunday, a break from his routine of publicized church visits and canvassing occasions. Nonetheless, he made an early afternoon deal with at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights and was scheduled to talk at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The democratic socialist took warmth Sunday morning for marketing campaign finance paperwork reported by the New York Submit, revealing that Mamdani’s marketing campaign had obtained about $13,000 in donations from people with addresses exterior america — donations which can be unlawful to maintain underneath Marketing campaign Finance Board legislation.
Mamdani’s marketing campaign, which has returned about half the donations, in accordance with the paperwork, instructed the Submit it could “of course return any donations that are not in compliance with CFB law.”
The Queens meeting member continued on Sunday to criticize Cuomo’s response to final week’s federal indictment of New York State Lawyer Basic Letitia James.
“Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism,” Mamdani wrote in a Sunday X put up about Cuomo’s Friday remarks on Pix11.
Mamdani is holding a cushty lead in most polls with simply over three weeks till election day.
Sliwa attends Columbus Day wreath-laying
Sliwa — who’s constantly polling in third place out of three main candidates — continued his high-energy marketing campaign on Sunday, becoming a member of the Columbus Residents Basis, the NYPD Columbia Affiliation, and the Nationwide Council of Columbian Associations in Civil Service within the annual Columbus Day wreath laying at Columbus Circle.
“In 1892, Italian Americans raised funds to build and gift this monument to the City at a time when they faced open discrimination and fought for respect and inclusion,” Sliwa wrote in a Sunday put up on X. “Calls to remove their gift are disgraceful.”
In 2020, throughout protests over the police killing of George Floyd, New York Metropolis confronted calls from advocates to take away the statue of Christopher Columbus from its spot on the Higher West Facet. Protesters defaced, beheaded, and tore down statues of Columbus throughout the nation in 2020, citing Columbus’ function within the conquest of North America and the enslavement of Native People.
In New York State, the second Monday of October is formally acknowledged as Columbus Day, a day that has lengthy been celebrated for its Italian-American heritage. Nonetheless, the vacation can be acknowledged as Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
“I proudly stand with our Italian American community always,” Sliwa wrote.
After the wreath laying, Sliwa headed to The Bronx for the forty eighth Annual Morris Park Bronx Columbus Day Parade.
