Cuomo to run as third-party candidate in NYC after loss to Mamdani
by Julia Manchester - 07/14/25 3:10 PM ET
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) formally announced he is running as an independent in New York City’s mayoral race in November after losing to Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the party’s primary.
“Only 13 percent of New Yorkers voted in the June primary. The general election is in November and I am in it to win. My opponent Mr. Mamdani offers slick slogans, but no real solutions,” Cuomo said in a campaign video posted to the social platform X on Monday.
“We need a city with lower rent, safer streets, where buying your first home is once again possible, where childcare won’t bankrupt you. That’s the New York City we know,” he continued.
“You deserve a mayor with the experience and ideas to make it happen again and the guts to take on anybody who stands in the way,” he said.
A source close to Cuomo’s campaign told The Hill’s partners at NewsNation earlier Monday that Cuomo will ask all candidates except for Mamdani to pledge that any candidate who is not in the lead by mid-September will drop out of the race, himself included.
Cuomo joins Mamdani, Mayor Eric Adams, who is also running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in the general election race.
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