Mamdani’s trouncing of Cuomo marked the biggest national victory for lefties since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her first election in an upset over entrenched Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, Smith said.

The poll results emerge as Cuomo relaunched his campaign as an independent following his primary defeat by Mamdani.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday accused Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani of political dishonesty, calling him a “fraud” and pointing to past

In a town where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall. That bloc is squarely behind Mamdani and fighting hard for victory in November.

AOC, who loudly backed Mamdani during the primary, said she was eager for people in DC to meet her fellow lefty firebrand face-to- face to hear his plan for NYC.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he will drop out of the mayor’s race if he is not the frontrunner to win against state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani in the November election. Cuomo has suggested that independent candidates should coalesce behind a frontrunner in order to beat Mamdani.

In the weeks since the primary, several prominent donors who had been supportive of Cuomo pledged their support to Adams in the general election, including billionaire hedge-fund managers Dan Loeb and Bill Ackman, both of whom have become so entwined with the Adams operation that they have helped vet campaign hires.

President Donald Trump said that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has "a good shot" for his independent run in New York City's mayoral race.

But one reply has more engagement than all of them, like double Cuomo's original post, and that's from Mamdani himself.

The former governor, now running for NYC mayor as an independent, is trying to up his social media game. Zohran Mamdani's supporters quickly noticed.