{"id":28788,"date":"2025-11-04T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28788\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:33:18","slug":"nyc-mayors-race-cuomo-votes-in-sutton-place-while-shaking-off-trump-backing-hopes-heavy-turnout-will-break-his-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/28788\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Cuomo votes in Sutton Place while shaking off Trump backing, hopes heavy turnout will break his way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Andrew\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Independent mayoral nominee Andrew Cuomo cast his ballot on Tuesday morning at the Art and Design High School in Midtown East, near his luxury Sutton Place apartment\u00a0where his daughter previously lived.<\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Independent mayoral nominee Andrew Cuomo cast his ballot on Tuesday morning at the Art and Design High School in Midtown East, near the Sutton Place apartment<\/a>\u00a0where his daughter previously lived.<\/p>\n

The former governor said he was greeted with cheers as he entered the polling place \u2014 a first, he says, in his decades-long political career.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the first time I ever walked into a polling place and the polling place cheered for me,\u201d Cuomo told reporters after voting. \u201cThat\u2019s a good sign.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Cuomo said he believes the city is seeing record turnout because New Yorkers are \u201cconcerned about the future of New York\u201d and \u201cconcerned about the Democratic Party.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

A record-breaking 732,866 voters cast ballots over the nine days of early voting<\/a> in the mayor\u2019s race this year, data from the city Board of Elections shows. Baby Boomers and Gen X voters accounted for the majority of early ballots, making up 58% of the early voting electorate. Additionally, 24% of voters were between 44 and 60 years old, and 34% were 60 or older. Meanwhile, voters aged 18 to 44 represented roughly 42% of early voters.<\/p>\n

Cuomo has highlighted the strong early turnout, particularly among older New Yorkers, as a potential indicator that his campaign could achieve an upset on Election Day. Historically, he performs well with older voters, while Mamdani has stronger support among younger voters.<\/p>\n

Recent polls show Cuomo narrowing Mamdani\u2019s lead, though he still trails the Democratic nominee, with the margin between them ranging from 6% to 15%.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most important election of my lifetime,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not a kid.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo by Lloyd Mitchell \"\"Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Joined by his daughters, Michaela and Mariah, Cuomo thanked his family and campaign staff Tuesday for what he called a long, difficult race. \u201cI did it with my father for many campaigns,\u201d he said, referencing the late Gov. Mario Cuomo. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to carry on that legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo framed the election as a defining moment for the Democratic Party, casting himself as a centrist fighting back against what he described as a \u201cradical socialist\u201d movement on the left.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing is a civil war in the Democratic Party,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cYou have an extreme radical left that is run by the socialists, which is challenging moderate Democrats. I\u2019m a moderate Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued to distance himself from President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement of him on Monday, saying Trump\u2019s remarks were motivated by opposition to Mamdani rather than support for him.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president doesn\u2019t support me,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cHe opposes Zohran Mamdani. The president believes Mamdani is a communist. He believes he\u2019s an existential threat. I believe he\u2019s a socialist and an existential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview on Sunday, Trump told 60 Minutes that he would prefer Cuomo as mayor of NYC over Mamdani before going a step further and officially endorsing Cuomo in a Truth social post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After voting in Astoria Tuesday morning, Mamdani dismissed Trump\u2019s remarks, which included threats to defund New York City if the Queens Assembly member wins.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI will treat his threats as they deserve to be treated, which are the words of a president and not necessarily the law of the land,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIt is time that we have a mayor who stands up for New Yorkers each and every day, not one whose willing to sacrifice those New Yorkers who cannot stand up for themselves.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent mayoral nominee Andrew Cuomo cast his ballot on Tuesday morning at the Art and Design High School…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,7496,17930,9,56,63,65,64,613],"class_list":["post-28788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-election-day","tag-mayor-race","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pm-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}