At the second and final NYC Mayoral election debate this year, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani brought two women who have accused Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment to sit in the audience.

The move attracted attention both to those claims, which the former governor Cuomo denies to this day — and to a common practice of politicians inviting guests from their opponent's past to level accusations of wrongdoing.

Mamdani invited as his guests to the Oct. 22 debate, held at Long Island City's LaGuardia Community College, Charlotte Bennett and Karen Hinton — both of whom have accused Cuomo of sexual harassment. They were at the heart of a scandal that brought down the Cuomo administration in the summer of 2021; he resigned that August amid a building wave of criticism and threats of impeachmen

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