Andrew Cuomo's victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral race was a fait accompli, until suddenly, and shockingly, it wasn't.

Once polling double digits ahead of every challenger, the 67-year-old former governor is now, with just weeks until Election Day, polling double digits behind the Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani , a 33-year-old democratic socialist whose first, and only, job in elective office started five years ago.

But Cuomo's daunting odds, and commanding defeat in the primary, aren't deterring him from trying.

Since declaring in July he'd run as an independent , Cuomo has been barnstorming across the five boroughs, welcoming press questions, demanding additional faceoffs with his chief opponent, appearing more in public and mounting a pugilistic social media strat

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