Mamdani rivals defiant against dropping out despite facing long odds in NYC mayor battle

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's confident he could defeat Democratic Party nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani in a two-candidate race for New York City mayor.

"I believe I beat the assemblyman," Cuomo said in a recent interview with Bloomberg News, as he pointed to Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist state lawmaker from Queens who shocked the political world in June by topping Cuomo and nine other candidates in the Democratic primary.

But Cuomo, the former three-term governor who resigned in 2021 amid multiple scandals, said in order to defeat Mamdani, there must be a successful effort to "winnow down" the current five-candidate mayoral field in the nation's most populous city.

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