New York City mayoral candidates Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, his primary opponent Andrew Cuomo, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa squared off on Oct. 16 in a bid for the seat that current Mayor Eric Adams is vacating in 2026.
Adams dropped out of the race on Sept. 28.
The debate, co-hosted by POLITICO, NBC 4 New York, and Telemundo 47, took place at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
When accused of having no substantial management experience, Mamdani argued that he had served in the New York State Assembly for five years.
“I have the experience of being a New Yorker, someone who has actually paid rent in the city before I ran for mayor,” he said. “Someone who has had to wait for a bus that never came, someone who actually buys his groceries in this same city.”…