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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The New York City Mayor's Race Keeps Getting Worse

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Socialist Zohran Mamdani now leads the polls by a wide margin. Andrew Cuomo attacks Mamdani by calling him "very rich" and demanding he immediately move out of his rent-stabilized apartment. And two former aides to Mayor Eric Adams face separate scandals, after one is indicted for bribery and another hands a reporter a potato-chip bag containing at least $140. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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The New York mayoral race gets even worse for voters hoping for an alternative to socialism.

0:45.4

As Zoran Mamdani pulls way ahead in the polling, Andrew Cuomo starts attacking him as a rich guy,

0:51.4

and new corruption accusations land on former advisors to the incumbent

0:56.2

mayor, Eric Adams. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by

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my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Manet Uque Burua. The man who promises

1:09.5

to raise taxes in New York and open government-run grocery stores

1:13.7

is now by far the polling favorite.

1:17.2

That socialist candidate and Democratic nominee, Zoran Mamdani.

1:21.1

One recent poll has him at about 42%, leading former governor Andrew Cuomo with 23%, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa with about 16 and a half, and then Eric Adams in fourth with about 9%.

1:36.1

There's still a ways to go until November, probably some debates in there, but an interesting new line of attack here from Andrew Cuomo. Here he is on social media

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recently. Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a

1:51.5

homeless shelter because you, assemblymen, Zoran Mamdani, are occupying her rent-controlled apartment.

1:59.0

Cuomo went on to say that Mamdani grew up rich, married an even

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