Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo skewered mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s key “freeze the rent” policy proposal — dismissing it as “blather” — throughout Wednesday’s final mayoral debate.

The heated takedown came as Mamdani held firm on his signature campaign platform from the stage at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City.

“I’m going to deep freeze the rent. People think it applies to all of them. No, just the 25% of the units that are really stabilized,” Mamdani said.

Cuomo blasted Mamdani for his “freeze the rent” policy proposal. POOL/AFP via Getty Images

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Cuomo, who came to the debate stocked with withering zingers, cast Mamdani’s proposal as as an unrealistic slogan for sociali media.

“It doesn’t work,” he said. “It’s a canard and just

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