Former Gov. and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo.
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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s marketing campaign says it noticed a significant fundraising increase over the previous month, with practically $400,000 — a big chunk of his haul — pouring into his coffers within the hours following Mayor Eric Adams dropping out of the race earlier this week, a supply near the marketing campaign confirmed.
Forward of town Marketing campaign Finance Board (CFB) releasing the candidates’ newest fundraising figures on Friday, Cuomo’s marketing campaign introduced it had amassed $940,000 between the top of August and this week. That marks a big soar from the $507,660 it reported elevating over the last submitting interval.
But, Cuomo continues to be catching as much as Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, who mentioned he hit town’s $8 million spending cap on Sept. 5.
Of Cuomo’s haul, $337,076 is eligible to develop to almost $2.7 million in matching funds, based on his marketing campaign. Roughly 77% ($711,783) of these donations got here from New York Metropolis residents, Cuomo’s marketing campaign says, whereas the remaining flowed in from exterior the 5 boroughs.
Invoice Mulrow, Cuomo’s marketing campaign chairman, mentioned in a press release that “Momentum is on our side at exactly the right moment.”
“Voters are just now tuning into this race, and they want a safe city they can afford to live in, and they know Andrew Cuomo has the experience to deliver and the ability to hit the ground running on Day One,” he continued. “This is officially a two-person race, and it’s one Andrew Cuomo is going to win.”
The definitive numbers in addition to the small print of Cuomo’s submitting weren’t obtainable on the CFB web site by submit time.
Cuomo, throughout a Friday press occasion in Manhattan’s Chinatown, mentioned he’s looking for to attract the backing of Adams himself in addition to the mayor’s supporters.
“I would like to have the support of Mayor Adams and the support of Mayor Adams’ supporters,” Cuomo advised reporters. “Canvas, hand out literature, fundraise, tell their family, tell their neighbor.”
“Thanks to the support of everyday New Yorkers, we don’t have to worry about fundraising in this race,” Mamdani mentioned. “We’ve maxed out our fundraising because thousands of New Yorkers have come forward…While Andrew Cuomo will continue to have to call donors, I look forward to actually speaking to New Yorkers themselves.”
Mamdani, a democratic socialist Queens Meeting member, added that he doesn’t consider the wave of donations implies that Cuomo’s marketing campaign is gaining momentum.
“I think that the momentum in this race is for a politics that looks to actually stand up to authoritarianism, not one that looks to coordinate with it,” Mamdani mentioned, showing to reference his competition that Cuomo is colluding with President Trump to win the election. Cuomo denies that he and Trump have had any contact in the course of the marketing campaign.
In the meantime, Sliwa’s marketing campaign mentioned it raised $421,000 within the newest submitting interval — its strongest. haul but, based on a report by Metropolis & State New York. With that quantity, Sliwa has now raised simply over $1.3 million in personal contributions, the outlet reported.
