{"id":1753,"date":"2025-07-15T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/andrew-cuomo-says-he-will-still-run-for-nyc-mayor-after-primary-defeat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:46:57","slug":"andrew-cuomo-says-he-will-still-run-for-nyc-mayor-after-primary-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/andrew-cuomo-says-he-will-still-run-for-nyc-mayor-after-primary-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Cuomo says he will still run for NYC mayor after primary defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cuomo says he will challenge progressive Zohran Mamdani in general election after being trounced in the Democratic primary.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andrew Cuomo has said that he will run as an independent in the race for New York City mayor, following a stinging loss to progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani<\/a> in the Democratic Party primary last month.<\/p>\n

The former New York State governor, who resigned in 2021 amid sexual harassment<\/a> allegations, vowed to continue his mayoral bid in a video posted to social media on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs my grandfather used to say, when you get knocked down, learn the lesson and pick yourself back up and get in the game. And that is what I am going to do,\u201d said Cuomo. \u201cThe fight to save our city isn\u2019t over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s 12-point win over Cuomo in the Democratic primary has electrified progressives and pushed pro-business Democrats, wary of his embrace of progressive economic policies and critical stance<\/a> towards Israel, to seek an alternative after the bruising primary defeat.<\/p>\n

The general election will take place in November, with Mamdani facing off against Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams<\/a>, who trails in most polls and whose tenure has been marred by a series of corruption scandals. Anti-crime figure Curtis Sliwa will also be in the race as the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome everyone to this race, and I am as confident as I have been since three weeks ago on primary night, when we faced Andrew Cuomo and won that race by more than 12 points with the most votes of any Democratic nominee in New York City primary history,\u201d Mamdani said in remarks responding to Cuomo\u2019s entry into the general race.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we did so because of the fact that while Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over themselves to make deals in back rooms with billionaires, we are fighting for working New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo was once considered the near-prohibitive favourite to win the city\u2019s Democratic primary, the main contest for the mayoralty in the liberal stronghold. But he gradually lost ground to an energetic campaign by Mamdani.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old democratic socialist ran a campaign sharply focused on cost-of-living and affordability issues, promoting policies such as free public buses and the creation of city-run grocery stores that will offer essential goods at more affordable prices.<\/p>\n

Polling has shown that many of Mamdani\u2019s populist economic policies, such as raising taxes on the wealthy to invest in social programmes and freezing rental prices in place for low-income tenants, enjoy widespread popularity. But Cuomo and other centrist Democrats have said that they are unrealistic and unworkable.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opponent, Mr Mamdani, offers slick slogans, but no real solutions,\u201d Cuomo said in his video.<\/p>\n

Cuomo and members of the Democratic Party have also criticised Mamdani\u2019s position on Israel, which he has said is committing \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n

That opinion is in line with a growing number of international human rights groups and human rights experts, and comes at a moment of growing disfavour towards Israel among US voters in general and Democratic voters in particular.<\/p>\n

After the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it was issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes<\/a> in Gaza, Cuomo, a firm backer of Israel, joined a team of attorneys who said they would defend the Israeli leader.<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s primary victory sparked a wave of\u00a0Islamophobic attacks<\/a> by supporters of Israel and members of the US right, including President Donald Trump, who has called Mamdani a \u201ccommunist<\/a>\u201d and said he could strip him of his citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cuomo says he will challenge progressive Zohran Mamdani in general election after being trounced in the Democratic primary. Andrew Cuomo has said that he will run as an independent in the race for New York City mayor, following a stinging loss to progressive upstart Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic Party primary last month. The former … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}