The Last Mayoral Debate: Recap Part 2
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laira show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. One more segment on the WNYC |
| 0:16.8 | mayor of debate last night, and then we'll exhale on this last morning of the membership drive |
| 0:21.6 | with one more 10 question quiz which we've been doing every day where if you get two in a row right |
| 0:26.7 | you can win a brian lara show baseball cap or our new w nyc tote bag that says you can't defund the truth |
| 0:33.8 | make it true today's topic for a little bit of nepo baby fun in the quiz |
| 0:39.3 | will be a famous people and their famous parents quiz that's coming up. But as many of you know, |
| 0:45.6 | every Wednesday during the mayor of campaign, WNYC political reporter Elizabeth Kim has been |
| 0:50.7 | coming on with us. She was on yesterday, Wednesday, as usual, when Bridget Bergen filled |
| 0:56.3 | in for me as I was getting ready for the debate. And she is back with us now for a special |
| 1:01.5 | Thursday bonus appearance for you all because of the debate. Happy Thursday, Liz. |
| 1:06.4 | Happy Thursday, Brian, and great job on the debate last night. Thank you very much. |
| 1:16.1 | What I really want to do in this segment, as you know, is replay the climate section of the debate that I felt very strongly should be in there, and we got it in there. |
| 1:21.1 | But you want to talk about the little breaking news first, just in the last few minutes. |
| 1:25.7 | I saw the Times was reporting that Eric Adams is going to |
| 1:29.2 | endorse Cuomo. That's right, Brian. So the Times has reported that they spoke to Eric Adams, |
| 1:36.1 | Mayor Adams, in an interview, and yes, he said that he will endorse Andrew Cuomo. Now, this is not |
| 1:42.6 | that much of a surprise because Cuomo himself teased this |
| 1:46.7 | endorsement by appearing courtside with Mayor Adams at a Knicks game last night immediately after |
| 1:53.8 | the debate. I mean, the real question people were asking was, how did he get there that fast? |
| 1:58.5 | But yes, this is not a complete surprise. And the mayor himself... And we were |
| 2:03.8 | aware, by the way, that he scooted right out. You know, some of the teams stay longer and take |
| 2:09.1 | questions and they want to spin it and everything. Yep. And he was right out the door. And we heard |
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