Politico: “In sum, Cuomo ran like an aging rocker on a final tour playing his greatest hits — touting infrastructure projects on his watch like a renovated LaGuardia Airport — while Mamdani was promising to make the wealthy city a cheaper place to live. Rather than address voters’ financial concerns in a deeply expensive city, the former governor ran as a virtual incumbent in a political atmosphere hostile to almost anyone in power.”
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