As the 2025 NYC Mayor’s race heats up, the paths to victory for most candidates appear increasingly narrow. Recent polls show Democratic nominee and socialist Zohran Mamdani maintaining a strong advantage against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa and independent attorney Jim Walden.
However, opponents of Mamdani’s have faced calls to coalesce behind one candidate in the interest of beating the Democratic nominee, who is a 33-year-old democratic socialist and who has ruffled feathers in the Democratic establishment. The unusual makeup of the race and agreement among opponents that Mamdani would be a bad fit for mayor has led some to wonder: Can Cuomo, Adams, and Sliwa coalesce behind one person in the interest of defeating Mamdani?
