Here is Andrew Cuomo’s exquisite dilemma as the mayor’s race careers toward its conclusion: New York is a Democratic town, one where Republicans are outnumbered six-to-one by their Democratic counterparts. It is also a city in which Cuomo is not the Democratic nominee but Zohran Mamdani is, even though Cuomo has one of the most famous names in the party and some of Mamdani’s left-of-the-left politics has caused some party leaders to keep their distance.

Cuomo’s uphill path to City Hall should be fairly straightforward: peel off a few Democrats uncomfortable with the 33-year-old upstart and then consolidate the Republicans and independents who are fearful of what Mamdani would mean for the city and see Cuomo as the most viable alternative.

But ever since the primary, Cuomo has been dogg

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