Final NYC Mayoral Debate 5 Most EXPLOSIVE Moments|Mamdani Vs Cuomo Vs Sliwa Turns Heated On LIVE TV

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The FINAL NYC Mayoral Debate goes OFF! We break down the 5 most EXPLOSIVE moments as Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa clash live on stage. From shocking comebacks to heated arguments over Jewish safety, housing crises, and Trump’s influence, tensions soar and sparks fly.        #NYCMayoralDebate #ZohranMamdani #AndrewCuomo #MayoralDebateNYC #NYCMayorPolls #MamdaniDebate #NYCMayoralElectionDebate #FinalNYCMayoralDebate #NYCMayorDebateHighlights #NewYorkMayoralDebate #NYCMayorDebateTonight #NYCDebate #NYCMayorDebate #MayoralDebate #WhoWonNYCMayorDebate    Also Read  Zohran Mamdani Claims Victory Over Andrew Cuomo; Faces Eric Adams and Republicans Ahead :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/zohran-mamdani-victory-over-cuomo-next-obstacle-adams-011-7783515.html?ref=DMDesc  Zohran Mamdani Claims Victory Over Andrew Cuomo; Faces Eric Adams and Republican Challenges Ahead :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/zohran-mamdani-victory-over-cuomo-challenges-ahead-011-7783483.html?ref=DMDesc  Andrew Cuomo Sued By Former Aide For Sexual Harassment :: https://www.oneindia.com/international/andrew-cuomo-sued-by-former-aide-for-sexual-harassment-gen-3690137.html?ref=DMDesc

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00:00And I allocated more funding for housing than any governor in the history of the state of

00:05New York.

00:06You could turn on TV any day of the week and you will hear Donald Trump share that

00:11his pick for mayor is Andrew Cuomo.

00:14And he wants Andrew Cuomo to be the mayor, not because it will be good for New Yorkers,

00:18but because it will be good for him.

00:20Protest, demonstrate, disagree, God bless America, God bless New York City.

00:26And there is no doubt that there's two sides on what's going on and the passions are very

00:30high.

00:31I understand my friend doesn't really understand government.

00:38The governor doesn't build housing in New York City.

00:41Not if it's you.

00:42No.

00:43No, legally there are jurisdictions.

00:47The governor doesn't pick up trash, he doesn't run the fire department.

00:50That's what the mayor does.

00:51The mayor builds housing.

00:53The state allocates funding for localities.

00:56And I allocated more funding for housing than any governor in the history of the state of

01:02New York.

01:03All right?

01:04I did things.

01:06You have never had a job.

01:08You've never accomplished anything.

01:10There's no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification for 8.5 million lives.

01:17You don't know how to run a government.

01:18You don't know how to handle an emergency.

01:21And you've literally never proposed a bill on anything that you're not talking about

01:26in your campaign.

01:27You had the worst attendance record in the assembly.

01:31And you gave yourselves the highest raise in the United States of America.

01:38You went from $110,000 to $140,000.

01:42And then you never showed up for work and you missed 80% of the votes.

01:46Shame on you.

01:47Shame on you.

01:48Good evening.

01:49Thank you to the moderators and thank you to New Yorkers for tuning in.

01:52I know you'd rather be watching the Knicks.

01:55While there are three candidates on this stage, you will hear only two messages.

01:59My opponents, who spend more time trying to convince the other to drop out than actually

02:03proposing their own policies, will speak only of the past because that's all that they know.

02:08I am the sole candidate running with a vision for the future of this city.

02:13Andrew Cuomo will spend much of tonight attacking me.

02:17He is a desperate man, lashing out because he knows that the one thing he's always cared

02:21about, power, is now slipping away from him.

02:24He will amplify right-wing talking points, he will share conspiracy theories, and he

02:27will do these things to make you feel that this should keep you up at night.

02:31But I've been spending the last year listening to New Yorkers, and I know what actually keeps

02:35you up.

02:36It's whether or not you can afford to live a safe and dignified life in this city.

02:40I have plans for our future.

02:41My opponents only have fear.

02:44We first just heard from the Republican candidate for mayor, and then we heard from Donald Trump's

02:49puppet himself, Andrew Cuomo.

02:51You could turn on TV any day of the week, and you will hear Donald Trump share that his

02:56pick for mayor is Andrew Cuomo.

02:58And he wants Andrew Cuomo to be the mayor not because it will be good for New Yorkers,

03:02but because it will be good for him.

03:04Look, Donald Trump ran on three promises.

03:06He ran on creating the single largest deportation force in American history, he ran on going after

03:11his political enemies, and he ran on lowering the cost of living.

03:14If he wants to talk to me about the third piece of that agenda, I will always be ready

03:19and willing.

03:20He wants to talk about how to pursue the first and second piece of that agenda at the expense

03:24of New Yorkers.

03:25President Trump has to respect you.

03:28He sent the National Guard into 20 cities.

03:30City he didn't send it into?

03:32New York.

03:33Because I talked to him and I said, we don't need you here.

03:37He has said he'll take over New York if Mondami wins, and he will, because he has no respect

03:43for him.

03:44He thinks he's a kid and he's going to knock him on his tuchus.

03:47Yeah, the difference on this question is, I've actually lived it and I've done it with

03:52President Trump over many years through the most difficult situation that this country

03:57has gone through, COVID plus.

04:00You're wrong.

04:02You're going to have to confront President Trump.

04:05He is hyper aggressive and he is going to overstep his bounds.

04:10And you are going to have to confront him.

04:12And you can beat him.

04:13I confronted him and I have beaten him.

04:16He was going to quarantine New York during COVID.

04:19And I stopped him.

04:20He was going to cut aid to federal programs and I stopped him.

04:25But you also want to be in a place where you can cooperate on good things because we need

04:30federal help if we're going to save our city and rebuild our city.

04:35Mr. Cuomo, in 2021, 13 different women who worked in your administration incredibly accused

04:42you of sexual harassment.

04:45Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself

04:50all while describing these allegations as entirely political.

04:57You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women.

05:01One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening.

05:07You sought to access her private gynecological records.

05:12She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her.

05:17I, however, can speak.

05:19What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?

05:27If you want to be in government, then you have to be serious and mature.

05:38There were allegations of sexual harassment.

05:41They then went to five district attorneys, fully litigated for four years.

05:46The cases were dropped, right?

05:49You know that as a fact.

05:50So everything you just stated, you just said was a misstatement, which we're accustomed to

05:54from you.

05:55Everything that I stated was a misstatement?

05:56Yes, because the cases, the cases were dropped.

06:01That's what happened.

06:02And my question to you, you still didn't answer, why won't you say BDS against Uganda if it's

06:09saying gays should be imprisoned for being gay?

06:13Okay.

06:14There's no problem with BDS against Israel, but no BDS for Uganda.

06:19Excuse me.

06:20Excuse me.

06:21Mr. Cuomo, it's my turn, all right?

06:24It's like two kids in a schoolyard.

06:27Yeah.

06:27I heard you on the radio this morning.

06:29John, this is personal for me.

06:31I know you are under threat.

06:32The mother of my two youngest sons who were raised Jewish, Melinda Katz, is prosecuting

06:37this person who came up and tried to do you harm.

06:40But let me speak on behalf of my two sons.

06:43When they've heard some of the statements you've made, like in support of global jihad, and

06:49I hear some people out there saying the Jews, their time is due, which means the same thing.

06:54They're frightened.

06:55They're scared.

06:56They view you as the arsonist who fanned the flames of anti-Semitism.

07:02They cannot suddenly accept the fact that you're coming in like a firefighter and you're

07:07going to put out these flames.

07:08Sometimes you've got a lot of explaining to do, a lot of apologizing to do.

07:14My sons are afraid.

07:15Their family, their friends, many in the Jewish community are concerned if you become mayor

07:20because they don't think when anti-Semitism rears its ugly head, which it's now doing

07:26more than ever before, that you will have the ability to come in and put out those flames

07:31of hate.

07:32I heard the both of them again fighting like kids in the schoolyard.

07:35Joran, your resume could fit on a cocktail napkin.

07:41And Andrew, your failures could fill a public school library in New York City.

07:48You know, not everything is a TikTok video.

07:51You're the savior of the Jewish people.

07:53You won't denounce, globalize the Intifada, which means kill Jews.

07:56There's unprecedented fear in New York.

08:01It was not several rabbis, Errol.

08:03It was 650 rabbis who signed the letter.

08:07Not several.

08:09Protests demonstrate disagree.

08:11God bless America.

08:12God bless New York City.

08:14And there is no doubt that there's two sides on what's going on and the passions are very

08:18high.

08:19That doesn't, that doesn't justify anti-Semitic behavior in New York.

08:24It doesn't justify having a Jewish population that feels unprotected in New York.

08:31It doesn't, it doesn't justify leaders who stoke the flames of hatred against Jewish people,

08:39which is what Zoran does in my opinion.

08:41Zoran, this is personal for me.

08:44I know you are under threat.

08:45The mother of my two youngest sons who were raised Jewish, Melinda Katz, is prosecuting

08:50this person who came up and tried to do you harm.

08:53But let me speak on behalf of my two sons.

08:56When they've heard some of the statements you've made, like in support of global jihad,

09:02and I hear some people out there saying the Jews, their time is due, which means the same

09:06thing.

09:07They're frightened.

09:08They're scared.

09:08They view you as the arsonist who fanned the flames of anti-Semitism.

09:15They cannot suddenly accept the fact that you're coming in like a firefighter and you're

09:20going to put out these flames.

09:22You've got a lot of explaining to do, a lot of apologizing to do.

09:27My sons are afraid.

09:28Their family, their friends, many in the Jewish community are concerned if you become mayor

09:33because they don't think when anti-Semitism rears its ugly head, which it's now doing

09:39more than ever before, that you will have the ability to come in and put out those flames

09:44of hate.

09:44I think there is room for disagreement on many positions and many policies, but I also want

09:55to correct the record.

09:56I have never, not once, spoken in support of global jihad.

10:01That is not something that I have said, and that continues to be ascribed to me, and frankly,

10:06I think much of it has to do with the fact that I am the first Muslim candidate to be

10:09on the precipice of winning this election.

10:12Now, I, all the same, Curtis, I do still want to be the mayor that will keep your sons safe,

10:22that will keep every single New Yorker safe, and it is my job to not only deliver on that

10:27commitment, but also to ensure that New Yorkers feel it every single day that they live in

10:31this city.

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