When state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced off in the first New York City mayoral debate of the general election, the generational battle within the Democratic Party was on full display.

Cuomo was long a member of Democratic royalty, leading New York as governor for nearly 11 years after serving in the Clinton administration. His late father, Gov. Mario Cuomo, was a Democratic Party icon.

Again and again, Cuomo hammered the idea that his deep resume makes him uniquely qualified to lead America's biggest city.

"This is no job for on-the-job training," Cuomo said during the Oct. 16 exchange, painting Mamdani as a political novice with left-leaning ideas outside the mainstream. "He never has had a job. On his resume it said he interned for his mother. This is not

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