Mayoral candidates go head-to-head in first debate

The pattern repeated itself again and again Thursday night: Andrew Cuomo would take any available opportunity to try to tear down Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani would punch right back, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa would be left in the middle, trying to point fingers in both directions.

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The pattern repeated itself again and again Thursday night: Andrew Cuomo would take any available opportunity to try to tear down Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani would punch right back, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa would be left in the middle, trying to point fingers in both directions

As expected, the former governor sought to paint Mamdani as too extreme on topics like policing, pointing to old social media posts where Mamdani called the NYPD wicked and corrupt, among other thi