It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

Hope you had a great weekend.

And for those of you who worked on the weekend, so everyone else could play.

Thank you. The headline story

in the New York City mayor will race this morning, according to multiple news organizations,

former Governor Andrew Cuomo will campaign for the job as an independent, despite

losing the Democratic primary to state assemblymen, Zeranan Mamdani. That will make five candidates for

mayor total on the ballot if the reports are accurate. But here's the twist. The stories also say

Cuomo will call on all the candidates not named Momdani to make an agreement. Whichever one of

them is leading in the polls in mid-September

will stay in the race. The others will agree to drop out, so it becomes a one-on-one against

Mom-Dani at that point. Now, that scenario sounds very much like what independent candidate

Jim Walden had already proposed, the idea, of course, being that

Mamdani is more likely to win if Walden, Cuomo, Eric Adams, and Republican Curtis Slewa are

splitting the rest of the vote. We'll talk in just a minute to Jim Walden, and of course

we don't yet know if Adams and Sliwa will agree to that plan.

For this show, as many of you know, we had all nine major candidates in the Democratic primary

on with us for a closing argument special on the day before primary day.

Now we've invited all five candidates in the general election for a round of fairly short

interviews, round 20 minutes

each, followed by your reactions. We'll hope to get them again for longer call-in segments before

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