NYC mayoral candidates make final push ahead of Election Day
Source: AP
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Updated 7:46 PM CST, November 3, 2025
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From Coney Island to the Bronx, the candidates in New York Citys mayoral race spent Monday crisscrossing the five boroughs in a final, frenzied day of campaigning on the eve of Election Day.
As candidates made final pitch to voters, President Donald Trump urged New Yorkers to cast their ballot for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo over Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in an effort to defeat Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. The president posted that voters really have no choice.
The campaign hurtled toward its end after more than 735,000 votes were cast during the citys nine days of early, in-person voting more than four times the number of ballots cast during the only other mayors race to allow early voting, in 2021.
The tally was well short of the nearly 1.1 million early, in-person votes cast during last years presidential election, but some voting locations saw large crowds Sunday, the last day of early voting. The line at one polling place in downtown Brooklyn snaked around the building and, at one point, took an hour to cast a ballot.

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