Independent candidate for New York mayor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media during a campaign event in the Staten Island borough of New York on Wednesday. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters New York —

Through the final days of this year’s campaign for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo has at times lived up to the nickname he earned in the early days of his political career: the prince of darkness.

Cuomo relaunched his mayoral campaign after his shocking Democratic primary loss, telling New Yorkers he was in it to win it in a video he filmed standing on a tree-lined sidewalk under the July sun. He would acknowledge he needed to embrace social media and address voter concerns about affordability.

Over the four months that followed, Cuomo zigzagged between optimism and despair about the possibl

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