A crowd gathered around mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back struggling to bench-press 135 pounds at the annual Men’s Day in Brooklyn. He couldn’t do it.
Mayor Eric Adams derided him as “Mamscrawny” — but Mamdani’s fans didn’t care .
Weightlifting isn’t a requirement to serve as mayor.
Fighting crime, though, is.
That is Mamdani’s vulnerability , and the reason this race is far from over.
Polls show Mamdani leading the contest comfortably , with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in second place, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa next, and Adams trailing behind.
And while every pollster and analyst wonders about the outcome if one of those candidates should choose to drop out, let’s be real — it’s not going to happen.
A politician is a legend in his own