With three days to go until Election Day, candidates are making some of their final pitches to voters on one of the last two days of early voting.
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani spent Saturday morning speaking to Black voters, first at the National Action Network in Harlem alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, and then at a church in Brooklyn, appearing with state Attorney General Letitia James.
What You Need To Know
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Major names appeared on the campaign trail on Saturday, from current and former mayors to the state attorney general
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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Mamdani crossed paths in Brooklyn after a lukewarm endorsement
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Cuomo was campaigning alongside Mayor Eric Adams in southeast Queens
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On Staten Island, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani join…
With three days to go until Election Day, candidates are making some of their final pitches to voters on one of the last two days of early voting.
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani spent Saturday morning speaking to Black voters, first at the National Action Network in Harlem alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, and then at a church in Brooklyn, appearing with state Attorney General Letitia James.
What You Need To Know
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Major names appeared on the campaign trail on Saturday, from current and former mayors to the state attorney general
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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and Mamdani crossed paths in Brooklyn after a lukewarm endorsement
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Cuomo was campaigning alongside Mayor Eric Adams in southeast Queens
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On Staten Island, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined a Curtis Sliwa campaign rally via Zoom after an array of Republican elected officials appeared in person alongside the GOP candidate
Sharpton took aim at Mamdani’s rivals, chastising Islamophobic attacks on the campaign trail.
“I am outraged by the ugly Islamophobia,” he said, saying the other candidates did not show up for the National Action Network.
Cuomo responded: “I did not hear what the reverend said. I wasn’t invited to join the reverend this morning. I am invited on his show tomorrow.”
Cuomo also denied any divisive rhetoric. He was campaigning alongside Mayor Eric Adams in southeast Queens, as the two are becoming a regular pair on the campaign trail.
Adams jumped to Cuomo’s defense.
“One thing, when we’re talking about the tone of the campaign going negative,” Adams said. “Facts are not negative.”
Across the city on Staten Island, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani joined a Curtis Sliwa campaign rally via Zoom after an array of Republican elected officials appeared in person alongside the GOP candidate.
“This is an election that will not be determined by billionaires, influencers or insiders, but you, the people, the blue-collar working class that are not represented,” Sliwa said.
It might be a much-needed show of force since Cuomo has been eating into some of Sliwa’s Republican base.
Back at the church in Brooklyn, the Democratic leader of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, was taking a side door.
The congressman backed Zohran Mamdani after months of pressure just last week. It was the first time Mamdani and Jeffries had been in the same room publicly since that endorsement.
But they did not appear together after remarks from the pulpit.
“The Democratic nominee Zohran is going to win this race, and it’s incumbent on all of us to ensure, as the next mayor of New York, he is successful in every single community,” Jeffries said.
“I appreciate Congressman Jeffries’s endorsement, and I also appreciated the remarks that he made in this church speaking about the vision our campaign has to make the most expensive city in the United States affordable,” Mamdani said.
NY1 also learned Mamdani was chatting with another top Democrat on Saturday — President Barack Obama. The two had a 30-minute phone call, but Obama has not officially endorsed Mamdani.