Well a lot happened during the final debate between the New York City mayoral candidates at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City.
Let’s start with some key moments from an intense night – with a lot of the line with just days to go.
After a week of intense pressure from all sides for Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, to drop out of the race and encourage his followers to vote for Andrew Cuomo, the founder of the Guardian Angels reaffirmed his position on this…
Then a sneak attack – when the Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani invited Charlotte Bennett to be in the audience. Mamdani then turned to Cuomo, and asked about all of the sexual harassment complaints filed against him which forced Cuomo to resign as the New York governor – a move that Cuomo now regrets since all of the cases have been either dismissed or never prosecuted.
Ms. Bennett sued the then governor in federal court back in 2022, but she dropped that lawsuit against him two years later, just two days before she was scheduled to offer sworn testimony.
In the press room after the debate, former Cuomo consultant Karen Hinton recirculated claims about the former governor’s supposed behavior while in the state house.
The governor has also always denied Hinton’s claims of unwanted and unprovoked advances.
And in an explosive and well rehearsed barrage from Cuomo on Mamdani, the 67 year old Queens native challenged the 34 year old Ugandan native’s work experience – to manage a complex city of this size.
So, with Mayor Adams now endorsing former Governor Cuomo, what will that mean for Curtis Sliwa?
Mike Leventhal met up with Queens Borough President Donovan Richards who feels he is in the middle of all of this.
So with early voting starting this weekend, a re-energized Cuomo will be back out there as will Curtis and Mamdani – as will APB News…
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