Brian Laird on WNYC, now, as usual on Wednesdays, our weekly visit from WNYC and Gothamist political reporter Elizabeth Kim as she covers the New York City mayoral race. Among our topics

today, the changing face of the crime and public safety issue in this campaign with Andrew Cuomo

proposing new ways to retain police officers, Eric Adams having some good crime stats to boast about,

and Zeranam Dani getting the endorsement of a police officers association. We'll play

clips of each. Also, Democrats who aren't endorsing their party's nominee, but not endorsing anyone

else either, what it means for the race and for the party nationally. Here's an example of that.

Then we'll bring in Liz. If you heard Monday show, we had Bronx Democratic Congressman

Richie Torres, who endorsed Cuomo in the primary, but in this general election rematch, he's holding

back. Here's a minute of our exchange on that, beginning with my question. Why not keep supporting

Cuomo if you think he's better than Mamdani, and Mamdani is as objectionable as you used to say.

Look, I have profound differences of opinion with the Democratic nominee, but unlike Republicans,

we as Democrats accept the result of the election, and he won, and he won decisively. And so now

my focus has shifted from campaigning to governing.

So why not go all the way and simply endorse your party's nominee?

I mean, I have differences of opinion. And it's worth noting that, you know, the DSA,

the Democratic Socialists of America, did not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president because of, you know,

ideological differences. So there's nothing unprecedented about that. But, you know, we have

differences of opinion, but I'm going to meet with them. We'll have a dialogue and we'll take it

from there. And we went on to discuss that Mamdani did endorse Kamala Harris, even though the DSA didn't. But Congressman

Richie Torres on Monday's show. And so here's that program note right away. I mentioned it in the

break. But Assemblyman Mamdani will be here tomorrow for his candidate interview in our current

round right at 10 o'clock tomorrow. W.N. M.C.'s Elizabeth Kim is here right now.

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