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Nearly a year ago, Lisa Fields Lewis rallied in Pennsylvania for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

But on a recent Friday evening, Lewis, a mother of two and staunch Israel advocate, was in front of Bloomingdale’s stumping for Andrew Cuomo with more than a dozen other volunteers on the Upper East Side. The neighborhood came out strongly for him in the June mayoral primary election he lost to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.

Standing on a corner of Lexington Avenue, Lewis passed out Cuomo palm cards to passersby. An elderly Hispanic man in a

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