NYC Mayor's Race: Mamdani (D) asks supporters to donate to opponent Speaker Adams (D) in bid to block Cuomo (D)
One mayoral candidate took the unusual step on Sunday of asking his supporters to donate to an opponent in a bid to block the front-runner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, from winning the June 24 Democratic primary.
Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, who is placing second to Cuomo in the polls, posted a video Sunday night on social media asking his network of supporters to donate to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ mayoral campaign before a critical fundraising deadline on May 19. The date marks the speaker’s last chance to unlock public matching funds — something she has yet to do — and begin broadcasting her message through TV advertising in the last few weeks before the primary.
Mamdani, a Democratic socialist representing part of western Queens, framed the request as a way to strengthen his, Speaker Adams’s, and other competitors’ efforts to defeat Cuomo next month.
The lawmaker, who was endorsed alongside the speaker by the New York Working Families Party, is in the rare position of being able to encourage his supporters to donate to another candidate because of the city’s ranked-choice voting system that allows voters to rank up to five candidates. Furthermore, Mamdani he already maxed out his own fundraising, having raised up to the city Campaign Finance Board’s (CFB) $8.3 million limit.
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