Subscribe to Mayoral Spew here and get these stories delivered straight to your inbox. We'll be sending these out weekly until Election Day.
For one of the last episodes of the Hell Gate Podcast before the November election, only one special guest will do: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
On Friday, October 24, we'll be sitting down with Mamdani in front of a live audience at the Museum of the Moving Image. Have a question you want us to ask him? Hit us up at tips@hellgatenyc.com.
Hell Gate Believer and Supporter-level subscribers got first crack at tickets to the sold-out event. Want invites to fun events like this one? Subscribe or upgrade today!
We'll be posting the special podcast episode shortly after the event, so be sure to subscribe to our podcast if you're not already a listener.
STATE OF THE RACE IN 30 SECONDS
We have just two weeks before Election Day, and with one debate in the bag and another on Wednesday, Zohran Mamdani still holds a double-digit lead over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, according to this week's only new poll (so far). But Mamdani's lead over Cuomo shrinks to less than 5 percent if something seemingly impossible were to happen—Sliwa dropping out. Team Cuomo is amped about this possibility, but good luck with that (see below). Then there's this issue with the poll itself: The AARP and Gotham Polling and Analytics used 2021 general election data to model the demographics of likely voters, but tens of thousands of new voters (the vast majority of them under 30) were added to the rolls during the primary. Still, hope (or delusion) reigns eternal: Several million dollars have flowed into Cuomo-aligned super PACs in recent days. Meanwhile, Mamdani is unbothered, burning through the $6 million he had in his campaign account at the end of September and hosting soccer tournaments and what promises to be a massive rally this Sunday in Forest Hills with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.