The first mayoral general election debate of 2025 on Thursday night saw Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Andrew Cuomo trade ferocious blows, while Curtis Sliwa assailed them both in between complaints of being “marginalized” on the debate stage.
The three-way scrum over the course of two hours was defined by repeated entanglements between Mamdani, the Queens Assembly member and Democratic nominee, and Cuomo, the former governor who lost the Democratic primary and is now running as an independent.
