Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemitism. But he stumbles and dodges when asked to venture beyond his surface-level focus on affordability and his four, and only four, narrow planks : child care, buses, rent, and grocery stores.

It is not only naïve and maddening, but dangerous for a future mayor and points up how unfit he is for the office.

While Andrew Cuomo has plenty of well-documented flaws, including those that drove him from the governor’s mansion in 2021, a decade as governor proves that he is a competent executive and could well do the job of running the city government.

He knows which issues matter to New Yorkers and how to ac

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