NYC mayoral candidates see who can promise more than upstart socialist Mamdani -- while Cuomo ducks and dodges debate attacks

Zohran Mamdani might or might not win the Dems’ mayoral primary, but the first debate showed he’s already won the argument.

The two-hour showdown turned into a bidding war to see who could promise to deliver more government giveaways than the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman.

It’s a lost cause when the trend setter is an admitted socialist who promises free everything, from food to rent to bus service.

Free except, of course, for the evil top 1 percent, who would be taxed to pay for it all. Unless they pack up and join the huge exodus of people who already have given up on New York ever fixing itself.

The debate showed how deeply the rot runs and why pessimism about the city’s future is the only sane response.

The sickening pandering to the left amounts to a race to the bottom, and re