MORNING GLORY: Which way Gotham?
‘The Five’ discusses several Democrats uniting behind Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani in the final stretch of New York City’s mayoral race.
How bad could he be?
How bad could it get?
The answers are "very" and "very much worse than it is right now, which isn’t great to begin with."
The question, of course, is whether New York City will actually elect Zohran Mamdani mayor next Tuesday. The electorate is certainly awake. More than 160,000 voted this past weekend in a huge early voting turnout.
NEW POLLS REVEAL MAMDANI HAS COMMANDING LEAD OVER RIVALS WEEKS FROM ELECTION DAY
Four years ago, a total of 1,149,172 people cast ballots, with Mayor Eric Adams tallying two-thirds of those votes. Curtis Sliwa, then, as now, the GOP nominee for mayor, collected 312,385. It seems unlikely that Sliwa will hit that mark again, as serious-minded Republicans at least are going to hold their noses and vote for former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and not because they like him. They don’t. But, because they are........





















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