2025 mayoral challengers attack Andrew Cuomo amid fresh reports he will soon enter the fray
Fresh chatter that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo will soon jump into the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary sparked a volley of rebukes from some of the race’s already declared candidates.
Left-leaning City Comptroller Brad Lander and socialist Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani (D-Queens) wasted no time on Nov. 26 in blasting Cuomo for reportedly continuing to circle around next year’s mayor’s race without officially jumping in. Their broadsides against Cuomo were sparked by a Tuesday Jewish Insider report citing three annonymous sources who indicated Cuomo will imminently launch his bid for mayor.
Lander, in a scathing statement, charged that Cuomo has not lived in the city for much of his adult life. Cuomo has often called himself a “Queens boy,” having grown up in South Jamaica and attended Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood. In later years, however, he lived in the Westchester County suburbs.
“Andrew Cuomo can’t even manage his own launch for mayor, let alone a city he left 30 years ago,” Lander said. “The last thing New Yorkers need right now is another agent of corruption and chaos.”
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