Hello, everyone. I'm Dana Perino along with Paley McEnany, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Waters, and Greg Gutfeld. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is the five.

So we are just two hours away from the first poll's closing on Election Day.

New Jersey and Virginia are electing governors.

New York City is choosing a mayor.

And that race could forever alter the course of the Democratic Party.

Democratic Socialists Zohran Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and Republican, Curtis Sliwa, duking it out for who leads the Big Apple.

President Trump weighing in by endorsing Andrew Cuomo and threatening to cut funds if communist Zohran Mamdani wins the mayor's race.

Here's what the candidates are saying.

Endorsements that Andrew Cuomo has got. We're talking about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and

Stephen Miller. These are the architects in many ways of the crisis of authoritarianism that New Yorkers

are facing. And Andrew Cuomo is so unwilling. President Trump is pragmatic. He is telling them

the reality of the situation, which is if you do not vote,

Mamdami is going to win. Who is Mamdami? I don't know, but he's a Democratic socialist.

They'll bring socialism to New York City. New York City will not thrive with a socialist

economy. Cuomo needs to go back, hide under his rock out in the Hamptons with his billionaire friends,

who have left really a stench over the city of New York.

Some top Democrats are fawning over Mamdani's campaign.

Barack Obama was offering to be a sounding board.

Others, not so sure.

Do you see Mom Dani is the future of the Democratic Party?

No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall as far as we're concerned

relative to the House Democratic Caucus and members who are doing a great

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