New York —
Through the final days of this year’s campaign for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo has at times lived up to the nickname he earned in the early days of his political career: the prince of darkness.
Cuomo relaunched his mayoral campaign after his shocking Democratic primary loss, telling New Yorkers he was in it to win it in a video he filmed standing on a tree-lined sidewalk under the July sun. He would acknowledge he needed to embrace social media and address voter concerns about affordability.
Over the four months that followed, Cuomo zigzagged between optimism about his candidacy and despair about the possible mayoralty of Zohran Mamdani. He has described his run as the last chance New Yorkers will have to save the city from Mamdani’s democratic socialism, once referring in a debate to the 34-year-old Mamdani as a “kid” and warning that his ideas were radical and unrealistic.
Cuomo’s final general election ad leans on his executive experience and also questions whether Mamdani has enough.
“Life in New York is tough right now,” he says in the ad.
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