Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, watches Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, at a news conference outside City Hall in New York, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times)
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NEW YORK — New York City’s candidates for mayor fanned out across the city Sunday, delivering closing messages at churches and rallies and urging supporters to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting. Polls are now closed, but will be open again Tuesday, Election Day, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
President Donald Trump waded in Sunday night, offering a backhanded endorsement of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. The president, a Republican, said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he was “not a fan of Cuomo,” but “if it’s going to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I’m going to pick the bad Democrat all the time.”
Trump continues to refer to Mamdani as a communist, but he is actually a democratic socialist. The president also said that if Mamdani was elected it would be “hard” for him to give money to New York City.
Trump’s Words Could Help Cuomo
The president’s words could help Cuomo as he hunts for last minute Republican votes, but it could also hurt the candidate with Democrats.
Trump did not mention Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee.
Earlier, Mamdani and Cuomo, who is running as an independent, started their days with appeals to Black voters on separate calls with a morning radio show. Just before noon, Sliwa campaigned through Brighton Beach, his second stop of the day in Brooklyn.
“It’s so important to vote, even if you don’t vote for me,” Sliwa said.
As they campaigned, all three candidates contended with masses of people running in another contest: the New York City Marathon. They briefly intersected on Sunday afternoon, when Mamdani, who ran in the event in 2022 and 2024, cheered on runners during a campaign stop in Greenpoint in Brooklyn. He later watched a Buffalo Bills game with Gov. Kathy Hochul at a sports bar in Astoria, Queens, before slipping into the nosebleeds at Madison Square Garden to catch the Knicks.
About 735,000 voters submitted early ballots, far more than were cast at the same point in the last mayoral race four years ago. On Sunday alone, the last day of early voting, about 151,000 people voted, the most of any day since the polls opened.
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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
By Benjamin Oreskes and Matthew Haag/Vincent Alban
c. 2025 The New York Times Company
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