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Brian Lear on WNYC Studios. Now it's time for our usual Wednesday visit from our lead Eric Adams

reporter, Elizabeth Kim. After what is usually the mayor's Tuesday weekly news conference,

the only time all week he takes questions from reporters on topics that they choose. He held

that news conference on Monday this

week, but Liz is with us today. And besides news about the mayor and how he's running the city,

there's also news, which is probably a little more relevant right now, about how the candidates

running to unseat Adams in the Democratic primary are doing in fundraising with new numbers out this week.

We got the latest fundraising numbers from the candidates painting a surprising picture of the race so far,

at least what they call the money race, the money primary.

We have former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who raised a total of $1.5 million

from 2,800 donors in the first few weeks of his campaign. But coming in second, we have

Democratic Socialist Assembly member from Queens, Zoran Mamdani, who raked in $840,000 from

$16,000 donors over the last two months,

by far the most donors of any candidate, Zoran Mamdani.

Adams himself reporting only a measly $36,000 in donations,

42 times less than Cuomo, if you want to do that math.

But it's becoming increasingly likely, according to things that he's saying and these

fundraising numbers, that he's not even running in the Democratic primary.

According to Brooklyn's Democratic Party chair, Rodney's Bashat Hermelin,

who just broke with her and the Brooklyn Democrats' usual supportive Adams or past supportive Adams to endorse Cuomo.

According to Rodney's Bashat Hermelin, the Democratic Party chair in Brooklyn,

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