From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Monday, June 23.

For today's podcast, we'll air two closing arguments interviews that I did today in the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York

with the two leading candidates who are approximately tied in the latest poll.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State Assemblyman Zeran Mamdani.

We actually have the nine leading candidates, and you can hear them all at WNYC.org if you're interested, for this

podcast edit, we're bringing you the two main competitors. And one note about the content.

The main pro-Como super PAC has made safety for Jewish New Yorkers a central closing issue, flooding

people's mailboxes and social media feeds with criticism of Mamdani in that context.

But many people may not like some of Cuomo's related positions either.

You'll hear how I tried to challenge each.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Thanks so much for doing this, Mr. Cuomo.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks. Good to be back, Brian.

And everyone is getting the same first question.

Take about a minute to 90 seconds to make your closing argument for why voters should rank

you first.

And also, if you're willing, tell us who you'll be ranking second.

Yeah, thank you.

You know, I think as we get down to it, Brian, on elections, there are a lot of issues

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