{"id":205668,"date":"2025-10-17T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:42:10","slug":"mamdani-debates-cuomo-in-nyc-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/205668\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani debates Cuomo in NYC mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa spar over Trump and cost of livingpublished at 03:25 BST<\/p>\n

03:25 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Sakshi Venkatraman
Reporting from New York<\/p>\n

Media caption, <\/p>\n

Grocery bills, Trump and Gaza – How NYC mayoral debate unfolded<\/p>\n

It was a fiery two hour debate between the three candidates up for New York City mayor. <\/p>\n

Leading the polls is Democrat Zohran Mamdani, and he was the focus for much of the debate – be it questions from moderators or attacks from his rivals. Independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa also faced some tough questions. <\/p>\n

Let’s look at some of the major moments:<\/p>\n

A tense atmosphere<\/p>\n

It was a night full of personal jabs and charged exchanges between the candidates. <\/p>\n

“He has literally never had a job,” Cuomo said of Mamdani, who has been a state assemblyman since 2020. He also accused him of not being a true Democrat.<\/p>\n

Mamdani criticised Cuomo’s record as governor and brought up his sexual harassment allegations. He also corrected Sliwa several times on pronouncing his name. <\/p>\n

Trump was the elephant in the room<\/p>\n

Trump has had some choice words about this mayoral race, threatening to pull funding from New York City and send federal troops in. He frequently criticises Mamdani.<\/p>\n

All candidates said they would defend New York from Trump’s actions.<\/p>\n

Gaza and Israel<\/p>\n

Moderators honed in on Mamdani, whose strong support of Palestinians and criticisms of Israel goes further than most of the Democratic establishment.<\/p>\n

“Of course I believe they [Hamas] should lay down their arms…a ceasefire means ceasing fire,” he said tonight.<\/p>\n

Sliwa and Cuomo praised Trump for ending the war and said Mamdani won’t help Jewish people in New York.<\/p>\n

Cost of living<\/p>\n

The three candidates have very different ideas on how the city’s affordability crisis should be addressed. <\/p>\n

Mamdani repeated his campaign promise to raise taxes on the wealthy 1% to provide more free services to New Yorkers. <\/p>\n

Cuomo says tax hikes will cause people to “flee” to Florida, Sliwa agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa spar over Trump and cost of livingpublished at 03:25 BST 03:25 BST Sakshi VenkatramanReporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-205668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}