When Andrew Cuomo decided to ignore the advice of many of his supporters and jump back into the New York City mayoral election after a bruising primary defeat, his campaign knew it needed to do one thing: turn the race into a two-person contest with Zohran Mamdani . And so Cuomo savaged Mamdani over his rent-stabilized apartment , ties to the Democratic Socialists of America, a vacation to Uganda , and his shifting positions on policing, while mostly ignoring the rest of the field.

With some eight weeks till Election Day, it looks as if Cuomo is finally going to get the two-man race he wants. But the terms of the contest have been completely upended. In a city that has seen its share of bizarre political moments over the past couple of decades, from a congressman’s penis pictures

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