Mamdani says Trump, billionaires 'can't dictate the results of this election'

After news broke Sunday that Mayor Eric Adams was ending his reelection bid, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani called the news "an illustration of what so many New Yorkers are tired of."

"Donald Trump and his billionaire donors can determine the actions of Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo, but they can't dictate the results of this election. And what we see today is an illustration of what so many New Yorkers are tired of,” he told NY1 political anchor Errol Louis in an exclusive interview on Sunday.

With Adams out of the race, Mamdani will now face former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in November's general election.

“Well look, he might not be in this race, but his record is Cuomo's agenda," Mamdani said of Adams. "It's an agenda that will continue on the legacy that the Adams administration delivered of raising the rent on millions of New Yorkers, cutting funding for their child care, for their schools, their libraries, on slowing down the already slowest buses in the country. That is the agenda that Andrew Cuomo is running on to continue."


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