Left-leaning candidates for New York City mayor piled on frontrunner Andrew Cuomo Wednesday in the first debate of the Democratic primary, criticizing the former governor as unfit to lead the country’s largest city.

In a cascade of attacks, Cuomo’s rivals argued he failed New Yorkers through budget cuts to healthcare, his handling of the COVID-19 crisis and his alleged sexual harassment of women.

Zohran Mamdani, the progressive Queens assemblymember who is polling in second place, wasted little time accusing Cuomo of being beholden to moneyed interests with ties to President Donald Trump.

“The difference between myself and Andrew Cuomo is that my campaign is not funded by the very billionaires who put Donald Trump in D.C.,” Mamdani said, highlighting a pro-Cuomo super PAC that has raise

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