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STATE OF THE RACE IN 30 SECONDS
Heading into Election Day, Zohran Mamdani remains the heavy favorite to be elected the next mayor of New York City. Almost every available poll shows him with a double-digit lead. Early voting numbers, especially in Brooklyn, show a massive turnout of young voters, the demographic Mamdani performs the best with. While Andrew Cuomo's hopes were buoyed by a higher turnout among older voters during the first few days of early voting, those hopes were then buried as voters 55 and under battled back through the week and weekend and made up 56 percent of the early vote. Cuomo, meanwhile, settled on a final message of "diversity can be a weakness," while mistaking one Black MSNBC host for another. Mamdani spent the weekend hitting up churches, clubs (more on that in a minute), impromptu DJ sets, and the cheap seats at the Knicks game, while campaigning from early in the morning to early the next morning. Cuomo, on the other hand, had a lid at 3 p.m. on Saturday and 12:15 p.m. on Sunday—not exactly the schedule of a candidate who thinks this will be competitive. Even Curtis Sliwa campaigned from 10 a.m. to midnight on Saturday. Barring some unforeseen shift in voting patterns, Mamdani will win.