With Mayor Eric Adams now out of the campaign picture, Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and rival former Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasted little time in laying into one another on Monday.

Adams' long-anticipated move to abandon his reelection campaign on Sunday could benefit Cuomo, but it may not significantly alter the race dynamic, as Republican nominee and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa remains a factor and could draw moderate, independent and centrist Republican votes away from both candidates.

Nonetheless, Adams' exit puts some pressure on Mamdani — who has mostly coasted on his strong polling lead since the Democratic primary — to go on the offensive against the former governor.

Mamdani went after Cuomo during an Upper Manhattan news conference on Sept. 29, taking h

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