5 Takeaways From The Chaotic First Nyc Mayor S Debate

Zohran Mamdani was pushed to provide specifics about his plans if he’s elected mayor of New York City in the campaign’s first fall debate, hammered by his two older rivals who painted him as... Much of the two hours on stage centered on Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist and clear front-runner in the polls. But there were so many back-and-forths that Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, started an answer just 15 minutes into the event by saying: “First of all, there’s high levels of testosterone in this room.” Mamdani didn’t answer exactly how he would afford his signature policies of freezing increases on rent-controlled apartments and making buses free, or how to square past comments on the police that he says don’t... And he notably declined to back the reelection bid of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, one of the few major Democrats in the state to endorse him.

Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, said Mamdani’s “whole plan is based on a myth” of believing that Albany would pass new taxes to enable his... Sliwa called his ideas “fantasies.” But Cuomo had his own struggles to explain what new ideas he would bring to City Hall or the questions about sexual harassment and his handling of Covid-19 in... “What I don’t have in experience, I make up for in integrity,” Mamdani told Cuomo early on. “What you don’t have in integrity, you could never make up for in experience.” The first Democratic mayoral primary debate is in the books, with nine candidates coming to 30 Rockefeller Center to make their case to voters. It marked the first time former governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been leading in the polls, squared off against the other candidates.

NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports. Nine Democratic candidates in the race to be the next mayor of New York City shared a debate stage on Wednesday night ahead of the June 24 primary. The candidates fielded questions about the future of New York City, including their plans to address affordability, public safety, education, artificial intelligence, the Trump administration and political regrets. Virtually every candidate (with the exception of Jessica Ramos and Whitney Tilson) went after the former governor after finally getting a face-to-face opportunity. Standing at the center podium, Cuomo seemed prepared to parry Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, but appeared a little more caught off guard by Michael Blake, who re-centered the issue of the former governor’s...

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