New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends the Dominican Day Parade on 6th Avenue on August 10, 2025 in New York City. The National Dominican Day Parade celebrated 43 years of marching on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. The parade celebrates Dominican culture, folklore, and traditions. (Photo by Ron Adar / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
43rd Annual National Dominican Day Parade 2025, New York, USA – 10 Aug 2025
(New York, NY) — Mamdani mania shows no signs of slowing down. The 33-year-old Democratic Socialist continues to collect endorsements, and hold on to huge leads in a number of polls.
A Sienna College poll out this week finds the Democratic nominee with a 19 point lead over his nearest competitor in the race this November. The survey of New York City voters has Mamdani at 44-percent, former Governor Andrew Cuomo is in second place at 25-percent. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa is in third at 12-percent in the poll. Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an Independent could only muster seven-percent in the Sienna College survey.
Mamdani spent the week ratcheting up his attacks against President Trump. He went on what he called a “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour. At the start of his tour in Manhattan, Mamdani blasted President Trump for cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and housing programs. When the Democrat tried to take the tour to Staten Island on Wednesday, he was met with resistance from demonstrators. They shouted for him to “go back home.” He later said he would not let that crowd stop him from visiting the city’s, one Republican stronghold over and over again.
Former Governor Andrew Cuomo took aim at Mamdani this week, calling him “privileged,” saying the 33-year-old shouldn’t be allowed live in a $2,300 a month rent-stabilized apartment when he has wealthy parents and earns $142,000 a year as a Queens Assemblyman. Cuomo is accusing Mamdani of “an abuse of the system” and “fraud.” The Independent candidate is proposing a bill that would enforce income limits for tenants applying for rent-stabilized apartments. Tenants would be forced out if their income rose above a certain threshold. Mamdani told reporters that he had moved into the apartment in Queens when he was making just $50,000 a year.
Mayor Adams spent the week desperately trying change the narrative of his campaign as weak and ineffective. On Wednesday, he sat down for an in depth interview with Sid Rosenberg on “Sid and Friends in the Morning”, where he defended himself from accusations of failing to protect the New York Jewish community in the aftermath of the October 7th Hamas terror attacks in Israel.
Rosenberg told the Mayor he did little to help Jewish students at Columbia University who were routinely being harassed on the school’s Upper West Side campus. Adams said he did what he legally could.
“I was in the streets at some of these demonstrations in March, communicating with our commanders and telling them what my expectations were.”
“When we had to make arrests, we made arrests. When people told me, don’t do the Israeli Day parade because it would be too dangerous, I said, that’s not acceptable. And we would not run for fear and we’re not going to have anyone disrupt our life here in the city. So not only the Israeli Day parade, but also there were times, I went up to Columbia, I went up to NYU. We communicated with the school officials and told them we should be moving in right away to disband the encampments, to disband the actions of those who were in the protests.”
Former New York Governor David Paterson endorsed Mayor Adams in the crowded New York City mayoral race this week. The former Governor says Adams is the person New Yorkers need to protect them. Paterson had previously backed Former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary.
Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa made news this week for changing his appearance. It’s rare to see the founder of the Guardian Angels without his signature red beret on. But he took it off this week for a series of interviews on CNBC and elsewhere. He told the “New York Times”;
“For some people, the beret is a defining issue,” “Guys and gals, I get it. If taking my red beret off will help you just to listen to me, no problem.” Sliwa believes he is the only one who can catch up to, and beat Mamdani this Fall. The 71-year-old says he is also the only candidate who isn’t carrying around a ton of political liability.
