Mamdani Enters Election Day With Wide Lead in NYC Mayor's Race

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00:00The MAGA movement's embrace of Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump's understanding

00:06that this would be the best mayor for him. Not the best mayor for New York City,

00:12not the best mayor for New Yorkers, but the best mayor for Donald Trump is his administration.

00:17We need a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump, who can get the funding that New York deserves,

00:24who can make sure the National Guard does not come to New York. I can stand up to Trump.

00:30Trump will go through Mamdani like a hot knife through butter.

00:36New York City mayoral candidates O'Ron Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo speaking ahead of today's election.

00:42Bloomberg's Miles Miller joins us now from Brooklyn Bridge Park, who's been monitoring this election.

00:47Miles, what are the signs we've seen so far? Is this Mamdani's election in the bag,

00:52essentially, at this point?

00:57Well, what I'll say is the winds of change appear to be blowing here in Brooklyn Bridge Park,

01:02and that's probably what's going to happen during this election, of course.

01:05Mamdani is looking at a margin that is probably somewhere between 45 and 50 percentage points,

01:12and what he told me this morning is no matter what the margin is, he believes it's a mandate for change

01:18in this city. Mamdani is, of course, pitching a very populist plan to have free child care,

01:27to make the buses free, taxing the wealthy, and to freeze the rent. How do you get any of those

01:34things done is very different depending on who you ask. To make the buses free, you have to figure out

01:41a way to fund those bond obligations the MTA has, to make child care universal and free. You have to

01:49figure out a way to pay for all of it. But that's the pitch he made to New Yorkers. It appears that

01:54that is what many New Yorkers like to hear. But there are other New Yorkers who think Andrew

02:01Cornwell coming back wouldn't be such a bad thing because they saw what he did as governor for 10 years

02:06here in New York. I mean, it disgraced governor leaving Albany before his term was over and now

02:15appears to be much closer to Donald Trump than he was then. How do you how do New Yorkers deal with that?

02:23Yeah, he says he's the only one who could take on Donald Trump. But then you saw yesterday, Donald Trump

02:28really putting, you know, the the brakes to that and saying, wait, hold on, take me on. You're the best person

02:35that I think could take this job. I'm going to endorse you. Cuomo said because he didn't call him.

02:40It wasn't an endorsement. It wasn't a tacit endorsement. But we saw it for what it is, an

02:45endorsement of Cuomo by Donald Trump. Does that mean you could take him on? And also, would that

02:52endorsement actually matter? It's so late in the race. People a lot of people have already made up

02:57their minds. We talked about this earlier today. Seven hundred thirty thousand plus people have already

03:02voted. And when all is said and done today, will this endorsement matter? Probably not. But one

03:08thing that's really important to note is that Mamdani has said he would work with Donald Trump

03:12on affordability because that's what Donald Trump campaigned on. Right. To make groceries cheaper,

03:18to make the gas cheaper and, of course, to make medicine cheaper as well.