Posted on 10/22/2025 5:18:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
New York City's mayoral candidates are set to meet for their final debate Wednesday night, with Democrat Zohran Mamdani looking to stay in control of a race increasingly seen as his to win, while former Gov. Andrew Cuomo amps up the pressure on Republican Curtis Sliwa to drop out.
With just days left until early voting begins, Cuomo has made a series of urgent pleas to the city’s conservative voters to ditch Sliwa and to support him instead, casting the Republican candidate as a “spoiler” whose presence in the race will deliver Mamdani a win.
The debate may be the former governor's last and best chance at making his case to run the country’s biggest city ahead of next month's election.
But Sliwa, the swaggering creator of the Guardian Angels crime patrol group, has forcefully maintained he will not exit the race and has, in turn, ramped up his criticism of the former governor.
Mamdani, meanwhile, has spent his recent days campaigning on local issues and energizing his own supporters. Though he is expected to face an aggressive version of Cuomo on stage, as he did during last week's first debate, he will need to balance his counterattacks with the hopeful vision of the city that has driven his campaign's momentum.
Here's what to watch for during the 90-minute debate Wednesday night, which will air live on Spectrum News NY1 and be streamed on the station’s website beginning at 7 p.m.:
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...
Love it! Mamdani for the win!
Yo! Fredo! I gots an idea fer ya. How'sabouts you espouse an idea or policy that you will implement if you win. You know. Like lowering taxes or having the NYPD help ICE do its job?
Otherwise, how's anyone s'posed ta know the difference between you and that Madmani guy?
Getouttaheahhhhh.
That is a Lose/Lose/Win vote.
The only Win is a vote for the Republican.
The Republican in this race is a clown.
The only "sane" choice is to vote for Cuomo.
You mean the least insane choice.
“ The only “sane” choice is to vote for Cuomo.”
I don’t get to vote but, if I did I sure wouldn’t choose your “sane” option. Curtis is the only one I’ve heard make any sense at all. We already know from experience that Cuomo is a freaking disaster.
And he'll get 15% of the vote in the general election.
“ And he’ll get 15% of the vote in the general election.”
Thanks to “conservatives” like you and Clay Travis telling the republicans to vote against him.
Cuomo is NOT the sane choice.
NY does not want to be fixed, they want to remain in the toilet until it is flushed
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