With less than three weeks before Election Day, New York City mayoral race front-runner Zohran Mamdani and Andrew M. Cuomo clashed Thursday night in their first debate since Mamdani crushed the former governor in the primary election.

The men were joined by Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, on the debate stage. Mamdani and Cuomo wrangled over how to respond to President Donald Trump’s threats against New York, how to combat crime, how to police protests, who is qualified to be mayor, how to make the city more affordable and more.

Mamdani said that Cuomo, who resigned as governor in scandal, is a tool of billionaire donors, a politician bereft of ethics and judgment and the wrong man to lead New York City.

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