Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani rallying with supporters exterior Metropolis Corridor on the final day earlier than the Nov. 4 normal election. Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.
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Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani kicked off his final day on the Nov. 4 normal election marketing campaign path very similar to he started Election Day throughout the Democratic main — with a rally on the first light.
Mamdani has been the frontrunner all through the overall election, backed largely by a coalition of elected officers and labor unions that had not endorsed him throughout the main. Nonetheless, Cuomo has narrowed the hole with Mamdani in a number of current polls, and has amassed his personal notable endorsements, together with these of present Mayor Eric Adams and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
In search of to make one closing push on the eve of Election Day, Mamdani walked throughout the Brooklyn Bridge on Nov. 3, with roughly 100 of his backers on Monday and delivered his closing marketing campaign message just some toes away from Metropolis Corridor. The candidate, a democratic socialist Meeting member, mentioned he had come full circle on the overall election marketing campaign that started with a dawn press convention in his house district of Astoria, Queens, simply earlier than his upset main win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in late June.
“The last time I spoke at a sunrise press conference was on the morning of June 24, when our movement felt ascendant, but certainly not inevitable,” Mamdani mentioned. “Today, the morning before Election Day, we have not only come so far, we stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city.”
Throughout his remarks, Mamdani promised to ship a brand new day at Metropolis Corridor along with his affordability-focused platform — together with proposals like free bus service, a hire freeze for stabilized tenants, and sponsored common childcare.
“When I am mayor, I don’t want City Hall to only be a beacon of light once the sun has risen and illuminated it from the exterior,” he mentioned. “I want to make city government a light of its own that people across this city feel at all hours of this day.”
Whereas Mamdani’s plans to chop prices have excited a big swath of the voters, they’ve additionally drawn criticism from Cuomo and plenty of others as being unworkable. They argue that Mamdani will be unable to ship on his guarantees as a result of the Democratic nominee goals to finance most of his agenda by tax will increase on rich New Yorkers and firms — one thing that requires state approval, and that Gov. Kathy Hochul has already referred to as a nonstarter.
Response to Trump interview
As Mamdani has usually executed on the marketing campaign path, he additionally pledged to make use of the mayoralty to battle President Trump’s ongoing mass deportation effort.
Mamdani additionally sought to tie Cuomo on to the Republican commander-in-chief with Trump’s remarks throughout a Sunday evening 60 Minutes interview during which the president mentioned he most well-liked a “bad Democrat” over a “communist.” (A communist isn’t the identical as a democratic socialist.)
“I think what President Trump’s remarks show us last night is what many of us have long known and feared, which is that when you are too busy cashing the checks of the billionaire donors who gave us the second term of this president, you will not be able to stand up to that same president,” Mamdani mentioned, referring to Cuomo sharing a number of donors with Trump.
Cuomo, nonetheless, has insisted that he’s the one candidate with expertise going toe-to-toe with Trump and that the president would use Mamdani as an excuse to launch a federal takeover of the 5 boroughs.
In response to Mamdani’s remarks, Cuomo’s spokesperson, Wealthy Azzopardi, mentioned, “Once again, Mamdani is lying and gaslighting his way through this election.”
“Only one candidate has a record of standing up to Trump when he tried to hurt New York and winning, and that’s Andrew Cuomo,” Azzopardi continued.
Mamdani is scheduled to spend a lot of his closing day on the marketing campaign path conducting interviews with “new media” and “creators,” in line with his marketing campaign spokesperson. He’ll then maintain a canvass in Astoria on Monday night.
