Democratic mayoral candidates Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander (left) and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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Two main candidates within the 2025 NYC mayor’s race — former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander — each say they’ve reached town’s $8.3 million spending cap when together with public matching funds with a bit of over 4 weeks till the Democratic major.
Cuomo’s marketing campaign says it raked in almost $4 million in non-public donations since launching on March 1, in accordance with numbers his marketing campaign launched forward of Friday’s CFB disclosure deadline for the most recent submitting interval.
The previous governor, who resigned in 2021 amid almost a dozen accusations of sexual harassment that he denies, is the front-runner within the polls and has received the backing of many institutional Democrats and influential teams. The present mayor, Eric Adams, is a non-factor within the Democratic major after opting to run as an impartial within the November basic election as an alternative.
Cuomo’s marketing campaign says that with $1.5 million in public matching funds it already acquired from the CFB earlier this month mixed with one other $2.8 million it expects to be awarded on Might 30, it’s going to hit the board’s $8.3 million fundraising restrict.
“We are truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of support,” stated Invoice Mulrow, Cuomo’s marketing campaign chairman, in a press release. “In just 80 days, New Yorkers from every borough have come together to help us build a campaign with the broadest and most diverse coalition of support.”
Whereas Cuomo’s marketing campaign introduced its personal haul, its newest numbers, together with these of most different main candidates, had not been up to date on the CFB web site as of this posting. Candidates can be updating their filings with the CFB by Tuesday morning, in accordance with a board spokesperson.
Queens Meeting Member Zohran Mamdani, who’s polling in second place to Cuomo, was the primary candidate to max out their fundraising earlier within the spring.
Nonetheless, there isn’t a assure that Cuomo’s marketing campaign will unlock the complete quantity of public {dollars} that it anticipates, particularly following earlier missteps it made across the metropolis’s matching funds system. In April, the CFB denied Cuomo any public funds as a consequence of widespread errors with the paperwork it submitted and earlier this month the board withheld over $600,000 in extra funds over a preliminary discovering of unlawful coordination between the marketing campaign and a brilliant PAC supporting it.
The tremendous PAC backing Cuomo, generally known as “Fix the City,” has already raised over $8 million — essentially the most of any exterior expenditure backing a candidate in a metropolis election.
Lander, who has been transferring between third and fourth place within the polls, introduced earlier this week that he has additionally reached the $8.3 million spending restrict. Nonetheless, Lander’s marketing campaign didn’t instantly present additional particulars on how a lot he raised in the newest submitting interval and the breakdown between non-public and public funds.
Cuomo, Mamdani, Lander, and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie have already deployed their battle chests to hit the airwaves with TV adverts.
The marketing campaign for Metropolis Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, one other candidate close to the entrance of the pack, introduced on Wednesday that it expects to for the primary time unlock matching funds with its newest spherical of fundraising. The revelation got here after Mamdani made the unprecedented transfer of encouraging his personal supporters to donate to the speaker only a day earlier than the fundraising deadline.
“This milestone is a testament to the grassroots energy behind Adrienne‘s campaign,” Adrienne Adams’ spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina stated in a press release. “It reflects what so many New Yorkers already know; she is a leader with the strength, vision, and values to meet this moment. Every dollar matched fuels a movement powered by people, not politics. She’s not in this race for herself – she’s in it for us.”
Myrie’s marketing campaign says it raised over $900,000 in non-public donations since launching a couple of yr in the past, roughly $115,000 of which it introduced in over the previous two months. It has acquired $2.7 million in matching funds up to now and expects to unlock one other $800,000, bringing its whole haul to $4.4 million.
