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NEW YORK – Leading New York City mayoral candidates, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, cast their ballots on Election Day, as the future of New York City and the Democratic Party hangs in the balance.

While Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa voted early, Mamdani and Cuomo flocked to their local polling sites Tuesday morning. Polls close at 9:00 p.m. in New York City.

“It is time now for a new day in our politics,” Mamdani told reporters after voting alongside his wife Rama Duwaji at Frank Sinatra School of Arts in Queens.

After voting with his daughters in Manhattan, Cuomo told reporters there is a “civil war” brewing in the Democratic Party, where the “extreme, radical left that is run by the socialists,” like Ma

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