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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Mayoral Races, Gubernatorial Graces, and Vegas Spaces | 10-31-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid wraps up the week by diving back into the New York City mayoral race where Zohran Mamdani still leads, Andrew Cuomo still faces accusations for being Islamophobic, and Curtis Siwa still sits in a distant third. Next, Sid unpacks the New Jersey gubernatorial race that sees Mikie Sherrill slightly ahead of Jack Ciattarelli in some polls. Then, Rosenberg analyzes the ongoing Government shutdown with impacts on various services, including SNAP benefits and air travel disruptions. Finally, ahead of another weekend jam-packed with football, Sid delivers predictions for college and NFL football games, and concludes with a conversation about his trip to Las Vegas this weekend. David Paterson, Diana Florence, John McLaughlin & K.T. McFarland join Sid on this Friday 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.

0:03.5

Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

0:09.2

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.

0:15.8

Turning now to the race for New York City mayor.

0:18.1

All right, with less than a week to go until Election Day, it does not seem like former governor Andrew Cuomo has been able to cut into Democratic nominees Zoran Mamdani's lead. Foxx-Its Morgan Morgan's now with all of today's developments. Hey, Morgan. Hey, Steve Natasha. So I think we're all tired of polls, but we've got two more polls that were released today in the mayoral race. And while the numbers are different, one thing remains the same.

0:40.2

Zora Mamdani has a comfortable lead as we enter these last few days before the election.

0:45.3

In this new poll from Emerson College, Momdawny has a 25 point lead, Andrew Cuomo at 25%.

0:52.6

And Curtis Slewa with 21%. Slewa gained 11 points in this poll compared to last month.

0:58.7

And in the new Marist University poll, Mammani has only a 16 point lead over Cuomo.

1:04.5

Slewa coming in at 16%. More than twice as many New Yorkers have already voted in the first five days of early voting than in the entire early voting period in 2021.

1:16.5

Mom Donnie went to a paint and pour with senior adults in Brooklyn.

1:20.7

Later, he'll join canvassers to knock on doors in bedstay and then at midnight a news conference with night shift hospital and airport workers.

1:29.0

Mom Donnie highlighting his affordability message to seniors, emphasizing how long some New Yorkers

1:34.2

have to wait for senior housing. He also responded to the latest polls.

1:38.1

I was speaking to my mother this morning. She was asking me, what do I make of all these polls?

1:41.7

And I was telling her, the best thing to do right now is Candace. Let's get out there and actually make the case to New Yorkers, because polls give us a snapshot in time. It's great when there's a good one. It's, you know, we look past it when there's a bad one, but really all they are are a prediction. It's up to us to actually win this race. Andrew Cuomo was joined by Mayor Eric Adams to meet with Nysha leaders in Harlem,

2:05.5

and then later the two held a news conference together, pushing back against accusations of Islamophobia.

2:19.6

Cuomo faced criticism after he laughed when a radio host said Mamdani would be cheering if there was another 9-11, and for a new ad funded by a Cuomo supporting Super PAC, which places the words, jihad on NYC over Mamdani's face.

2:24.2

One Cuomo supporter said that he originally was backing Momdani because of his race and religion,

2:27.7

but switched to Cuomo after learning more about Mamdani's policies.

2:30.0

Cuomo also responding to the polls.

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