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Mamdani acknowledged he did not expect his campaign to take off so fast.

And he said he was surprised by the “quality of campaign that Andrew Cuomo has run.”

He described Cuomo as “someone who seems deeply uninterested in actually leading this city.”

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Zohran Mamdani started his Primary Day with a brief speech at 5:40 a.m. at the Astoria Park in Queens.

“It’s only fitting that I begin the final day of this primary the way that so many New Yorkers do: up early and hungry for a better future for this city,” he said.

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Adams Team Works Behind Scenes to Try to Sway Rabbis Against Cuomo An aide to Mayor Eric Adams is pushing Orthodox Jewish leaders to withhold endorsements in the New York City mayoral primary.

Adams Team Works Behind Scenes to Try to Sway Rabbis Against Cuomo, with Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n...

10.06.2025 18:22 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Booker, his voice booming after more than a day spent on the Senate floor railing against the Trump administration, surpasses Strom Thurmond for the longest Senate speech on record, in an act of astonishing stamina that he framed as a call to action. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

02.04.2025 00:27 — 👍 424    🔁 62    💬 11    📌 2
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The Alien Enemies Act, Used by Trump to Deport Venezuelans, Has Long Been Contentious Before the current Trump administration, the law had been invoked just three times.

"Extraordinary and dangerous powers": the history of the law invoked by Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

21.03.2025 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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