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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Ballots and Bailouts: Mayoral Races and Santos’ Surprising Encore | 10-20-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid discusses recent highlights and developments in the New York mayoral race and the reactions from key candidates Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo. Curtis Sliwa campaigns outside a homeless shelter in Brooklyn and criticizes his opponents, while Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani participate in a town hall addressing housing affordability, NYCHA, mental health, and community issues. The forum saw a split audience response. Polls suggest Mamdani is still leading by a significant margin. Additionally, there's discussion about Curtis Sliwa potentially withdrawing if his campaign does not gain traction this week. Meanwhile, former Congressman George Santos is released from prison after President Trump commutes his sentence, amidst allegations of mistreatment and discussions about the GOP's internal politics. Frank Morano, George Santos, John Catsimatidis, John McLaughlin & Morton Klein call in on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sid and Friends in the morning.

0:03.6

Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

0:09.3

We're done with Stern. We're done with Colbert. We're on to Sid Rosenberg. This is what we want.

0:13.8

It's what the people want, Sid. Come on.

0:15.7

Now to the race for mayor with just days to go before early voting begins Curtis Lewa taking to the streets in

0:21.8

Brooklyn joining residents angry about a homeless shelter they say the city misled them

0:26.9

about and in Queens both Zoran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo on the stage taking part in a

0:32.8

town hall among the topics affordability NYCHA, and how to handle the mental health crisis.

0:40.1

Meanwhile, we are getting some reaction for people who attended that event.

0:43.6

Foxx, Kendall Green is here with the recap of all of this. Kendall, what are the highlights?

0:47.5

Hey, Arthur and Bianca, hundreds of voters attended the forum in Flushing, eager to listen to both

0:51.8

Mamdani and Cuomo sharing their views on the city's future

0:55.0

with them as mayor.

0:56.4

Now Metro IAF, New York, an interfaith multiracial power network hosted the forum.

1:02.4

Democratic nominee Zora Mamdani used his platform to remind those voters of who he is.

1:09.0

He's been taking meetings with them since early this summer,

1:11.6

but he's shared his eagerness to work with the group earlier.

1:14.6

Now, former Governor Andrew Cuomo touted his experience reminding voters of his history in office,

1:20.6

arguing he's more prepared to take over at City Hall, and Metro IAF asked both candidates

1:25.6

to commit to their agenda starting on day one should they be elected mayor.

1:29.5

Now, that agenda includes these four objectives.

1:32.5

One, to build 100% affordable housing, 50,000 units every year allocating $2.75 billion in February's budget.

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