Brian Lerer on WNYC. Now we turn to the New York City mayoral primary, which is just 20 days away.

Early voting has already begun if you have a mail-in ballot.

Early voting in person begins a week from Saturday. We've seen some major endorsements

since we last looked at the political side of events unfolding in this race. On Friday,

the Working Families Party announced that they will be ranking Queen's Assembly members,

Zoran Mamdani, first on their ballot.

A highly sought-after endorsement among the progressive candidates running to unseat, Mayor Eric Adams.

He also picked up the endorsement of Queens State Senator John Liu, a former city controller,

during the Bloomberg administration.

And this comes as many Asian American New Yorkers

shifted toward Donald Trump in last year's presidential election. We'll talk more about the

significance of this endorsement and the needs of this block of voters later in this segment.

As for Andrew Cuomo, who continues to make news, Politico had an interview with him in which he said,

if elected mayor, he will go on a national campaign against some of the things that President Trump is doing.

So that's interesting.

So we will talk now to WNYC and Gothamist City Hall reporter Elizabeth Kim,

ahead of tonight's first debate among the Democratic candidates running for mayor.

There will be nine people on the Channel 4 stage tonight.

Nine candidates.

That's the kind of race it is.

Liz Kim joins us every Wednesday. If you remember,

it used to be as our lead Eric Adams reporter, just covering the mayor's weekly Tuesday news conferences.

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