Looks like Cuomo plans to run against Mamdani as a 3rd-party candidate.

[Ocelot II]

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has decided to run in the general election for mayor, urged on by supporters anxious that his withdrawal would nearly guarantee Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s victory and put New York City in the hands of the far left.

The decision by Mr. Cuomo, who had been questioning whether to run after his crushing Democratic primary defeat by Mr. Mamdani, a state assemblyman and a democratic socialist, will be announced in a video that is expected to be released this week, according to three people familiar with his decision.

If the polls show that he is not the highest-ranked challenger to Mr. Mamdani by early September, he will pledge to drop out of the race, the people said. He will encourage the other challengers — Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent; Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee; and Jim Walden, an independent — to do the same. (The plan was hatched by Mr. Walden.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-mamdani-nyc-mayor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.LF12.ORINfJ3bp4RG&smid=url-share

[Oopsie Daisy]

1. Interesting.

[SocialDemocrat61]

2. He can't win

[FBaggins]

14. He absolutely can

Keep in mind that NY is using ranked-choice voting.

Take the most recent poll showing Mamdani ahead by double digits... but with only 35% of the vote... then Cuomo with 25%... then Silwa and Adams with 14% and 11% respectively. We have no idea where the undecideds will end up in the end... but if you drop Adams' 11%... it's highly unlikely that many of those voters would have Mamdani as their second choice. So then it comes down to where the Silwa voters ranked the remaining two candidates.

[SocialDemocrat61]

19. Only in the primary

Ranked choice isn't used in the general election. Cuomo is polling at 24%, Mamdani at 40%. Cuomo can't win.

[Prairie Gates]

25. Oooof

All that math and speculation and not understanding the basic rules.

[SocialDemocrat61]

26. Never let the facts

get in the way of a good rant. I 🤣🤣🤣

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Lol. Corrupt crybaby sex pest running as an independent.

I’m sure this will make his maga loving brother Fredo happy.

[comradebillyboy]

28. Fredo gets very angry if you call him Fredo.

[Faux pas]

4. Sheesh

he's an effer too.

[BlueTsunami2018]

5. "Far left" if only.

Mamdani’s positions should be the basic Democratic platform. They pretty much used to be. We need to get back to our staunchly pro-labor days and jettison these corporate scumbags and oligarchs.

[Celerity]

6. Sore loser serial sexual harasser. Dismaying to see some posts here supporting his run against the Dem primary winner.

Supporting Cuomo is a large 'fuck you' to women everywhere who have been the victims of Cuomo-style sexual predation.

[Ocelot II]

9. I don't think he'll have much luck.

Mamdani trounced him once; it's clear that Mamdani is popular with NY voters, and that sleazy sex pest Cuomo isn't. I think he hopes ranked-choice voting will give him a chance by aggregating the votes for other candidates to him, but considering who the other candidates are (Eric Adams? Curtis Sliwa?) I don't think it will happen.

[tritsofme]

12. I don't believe the general election uses ranked choice voting, only the Democratic primary

[Ocelot II]

17. In that case I stand corrected.

Where I live, Minneapolis, we use RCV in the general election for municipal officials. I should have checked NY.

[SocialDemocrat61]

21. Very disappointing

And some say there are not cults on the left.

[Prairie Gates]

23. I think Support Democrats should be rigorously enforced by juries

Like, rigorously rigorously.

[WarGamer]

7. I'm surprised, I thought they'd all back Adams. Even Trump mentioned as much

[Wuddles440]

10. It's designed to siphon votes...

from Mamdani to insure that Adams prevails and keeps our Orange Felon King happy.

[fujiyamasan]

31. One poll I saw recently had Adams trailing Silwa

Adams isn’t popular right now (I guess cozying up to Trump kept him out of jail but is likely to lose him his job), and Silwa appears to be a spoiler for Adams. It’s kinda funny.

These three (Adams, Cuomo, and Silwa) have giant egos and are completely splitting the anti-Mamdani vote. Mamdani is running a very impressive campaign right now. I think even Cuomo acknowledged that. I don’t see Cuomo winning, unless Adams drops out and maybe endorses him, though I wonder how much good an Adams endorsement would do him at this point.

[comradebillyboy]

32. I seems to me that Adams isn't very well liked. And

I don't think Sliwa, Adams or Cuomo will get out of each other's way so 40 to 45% should be plenty for Mandami. But I'm not a New Yorker so I'm just guessing.

[fujiyamasan]

34. I'd be surprised if Cuomo endorses Adams, but if his campaign goes no where, maybe it could happen

I think Adams making nice with Trump was a step too far for New York dems. They’re mostly going to be split between Cuomo and Mamdani, since there’s a significant faction of moderate dems in the city that are likely turned off by the ‘socialist’ tag and his stance on Israel.

Cuomo is going to get a lot from moneyed interests, like real estate and AIPAC.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. OK

Then the anti-Mamdani vote will be split x number of ways and Mamdani will win.

[Torchlight]

11. He loses half of his arguments just by that alone

I'm not a Democrat because it's convenient nor as a fashion choice.

[cloudbase]

13. We can put to bed the notion that Cuomo is a Democrat,

or that he cares about anything outside of his own self-interest.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. Good- he will split the anti-Mamdani vote with Adams, and neither will win

Does NYC have ranked choice for the general in November?

If no candidate gets 50% does it force a runoff?

[SocialDemocrat61]

20. No

RCV is only used in primaries, not in the general election.

[Fiendish Thingy]

38. Another post in this thread says it is used in the general

Do you have a link confirming it isn’t?

[SocialDemocrat61]

40. What other post?

Can you link to that post?

But if you want a link, here you go: https://www.nycvotes.org/how-to-vote/ranked-choice-voting/

[Duncan Grant]

18. Is it a class war or not?

I say it is. Happy to consider evidence that I’m wrong.

[emulatorloo]

30. Nah, it is a selfish slimeball high on his own supply. He's an outlier.

Most lib dems are happy w Mamdani. As to national figures I read Clinton and Clyburn endorsed Mamdani.

[Duncan Grant]

36. Who's pumping money into a losing campaign?

I appreciate your response. Seems odd to me that someone(s) would spend money and resources over ego or sour grapes.

[Prairie Gates]

22. Good...he can split this shitheel vote with Adams and Sliwa

[Johonny]

27. Will he change his name to Jill Stein?

[emulatorloo]

29. Sore loser. I read Clinton and Clyburn have endorsed Mamdani, so yay!

[MichMan]

39. Who did Clyburn endorse in the last NYC mayoral election?

Does it carry a lot of weight with NYC voters?

[Ping Tung]

33. Did Cuomo forget to sign the party loyalty oath?

[Ars Longa]

35. Does NYC have run-off elections? Or can someone win with

35% ??

[regnaD kciN]

37. As Mike Nellis pointed out on Substack...

You can’t have it both ways. The moderate wing of the party always expects the left to rally behind them. Can you imagine the reaction if Mamdani lost the primary and decided to run in the general against Cuomo?