Cuomo turns tables on Mamdani after he dodged question addressing 'destructive' policy

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is turning up the volume in his attacks on New York City mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani over the issue of prostitution.

Cuomo, who is running for mayor of the nation's most populous city as an independent after Mamdani topped him by double digits in June's Democratic Party primary, argues that if the 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from Queens wins in November, "New York City would become prostitution capital of the country."

Mamdani, whose victory over Cuomo and nine other candidates in the Democratic mayoral primary sent political shockwaves across the country, called for the decriminalization of sex work when he first ran for the state legislature in 2020.

And as a state assemblyman, Mamdani co-sponsored bills to decriminalize sex work statewide. 

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