Day: September 9, 2025
Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani would still lead in the November general election, albeit by a far slimmer margin, if the field shrank to a one-on-one bout between himself and rival former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a new Siena College and New York Times poll released Tuesday found.
The survey of 1,284 registered voters taken between Sept. 2-6 found that Mamdani, a democratic socialist assembly member, holds a four-point advantage over Cuomo among likely voters (48% to 44%) — playing out what could happen if both incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa drop out.
“Cuomo would capture the vast majority of both Adams’ and Sliwa’s current support and win a majority of voters over forty-five,” Siena Research Institute Director Don Levy said. “Mamdani’s overwhelming 22-point lead would shrink to four points.”
Cuomo and Adams are both Democrats running on their own independent lines.
Cuomo’s best (and only) chance to beat Mamdani
Adams has spent the past week trying to tamp down multiple published reports that he is in conversations with President Trump’s top advisers about nabbing a job in the federal administration in exchange for ending his uphill reelection bid.
On Friday, the mayor called reporters up to Gracie Mansion to defiantly insist he is staying in the race. That came hours after his campaign issued a statement in which Adams indicated he would remain a candidate, but also said, “I will always listen if called to serve our country.”
Trump’s close aides are reportedly considering making a similar offer to Sliwa — but the red beret-clad Republican founder of the Guardian Angels maintained he has not been contacted by the White House and has no interest in working for Trump.
Levy said that, given the mayor’s small support, “Cuomo would need both Adams and Sliwa to drop out in order to close the gap.”
“A lot could change in this race, if Adams and/or Sliwa drop out, or Mamdani could continue to ride his support among young voters and voters concerned about economic issues all the way to Gracie Mansion,” Levy added.
Mamdani dominating the field as it is now
Mamdani is also dominating the current field of four candidates with 46% among likely voters. While his advantage his a plurality and not a majority, it is more than enough to win in less than two months.
With the anti-Mamdani vote split amongst three candidates, Cuomo comes in a distant second at 23%. Behind him is Republican nominee Sliwa, with 15%, and incumbent Mayor Adams is in last place at 9%.
“Mamdani holds a huge lead among younger voters while voters forty-five and older are split between Cuomo and Mamdani in the four-way race,” Levy said in a statement.
The survey found that a plurality of Mamdani voters named the cost-of-living — the central focus of Mamdani’s campaign — as the city’s number one issue.
Dora Pekec, Mamdani’s spokesperson, said the candidate’s commanding lead shows that his campaign’s relentless focus on affordability continues to resonate with voters.
“New York City is not for sale,” Pekec said. “The backroom scheming from Donald Trump and the billionaire class is backfiring, as New Yorkers see Zohran Mamdani is the only candidate who will fight to make the most expensive city in the country more affordable. Our campaign is busy building a movement that puts working people first – mobilizing thousands to get involved in the democratic process and fight for a new kind of politics.”
Spokespeople for Cuomo and Adams did not immediately comment on the poll.
Mamdani also leads across many other demographic categories in the four-way field, including men, women, white, Black, and Hispanic voters.
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DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL NOMINEE Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders drew thousands of supporters to Brooklyn College
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Suspicious Minds: Medical Experts Cast Doubt On Lesin Autopsy rferl.org/a/of-suspicious-mi…
The autopsy report obtained by RFE/RL following more than two years of litigation over Freedom Of Information Act requests is incomplete; some pages are heavily redacted; signatures are whited out. But the details of laboratory results, observations by pathologists from the chief medical examiner’s office and Georgetown University hospital, and an unidentified forensic anthropologist are included in relatively precise detail.
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“I’ve done 12,000 autopsies over my career,” said Donald Jason, a forensic pathology consultant and retired professor from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. “A good number have been alcoholics. And I’ve never seen a fractured hyoid bone on someone who’s falling around drunk.”
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“I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” said Tom Andrews, who retired in 2017 as chief medical examiner for the state of New Hampshire, and reviewed the file at RFE/RL’s request.“This is an unusual case, the complexity of the injuries, even for an alcoholic,” he said. “It’s an unusual constellation of injuries to see in an accidental death, in a fall or a series of falls, from a standing height.”
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner did not answer an e-mail seeking further comment by the time of publication of this article.
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Documenting the conversation in a supplemental report dated April 1, 2016, and included in the file handed over to RFE/RL, the official notes that the fracture occurred “at or near the time” of death. While other causes could not be ruled out — including a “significant fall” or that the bone was broken during the autopsy — such an injury was “commonly associated with hanging or manual strangulation,” the official wrote.
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Police records, however, state that there was a “problem” with the disk that was storing the video footage from the 9th-floor penthouse where Lesin was staying. An unidentified agent states that he was unable to review footage of the 9th-floor hallway from 1:02 p.m. until 11:14 p.m. due to the problem with the disk — a period that includes nearly three hours after Lesin was last known to have been seen alive.It’s unclear whether that specific footage was ever reviewed.
Asked for further comment on the question of the footage, the Metropolitan Police Department referred questions to the U.S. Justice Department, which oversees both the FBI as well as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. The Justice Department, meanwhile, referred queries from RFE/RL to the Metropolitan Police Department.
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Karl Williams, chief medical examiner of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, echoed other observations that the absence of further information from the police investigative records makes it harder to get a full picture.“The key to this case lies in what’s not in the medical examiner’s file,” he said. “There’s more missing in the medical examiner’s file than what’s there.”
As for the hyoid, he said, “It would be extraordinarily rare to see this fractured from a fall.”
–— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Sep 9, 2025
