SCOOP: Socialist Assembly Member @ZohranKMamdani is seriously considering a run for NYC mayor

🎼 May I have your attention, please? 🎼 May I have your attention, please? 🎼 Will the real de Blasio please stand up?

BREAKING: Mamdani's odds collapse in NYC Mayoral Election. If he continues falling at the rate he has the past 24h, Cuomo would be the projected winner.

We have the two de Blasios!!! Long Island de Blasio admits to @ErinBurnett: “I just had a little fun with it,” Brooklyn de Blasio thinks it’s pretty funny, but can’t believe “no one checked!” - @BilldeBlasio

I thought this was a typo at first. Only 26K people voted today, a massive drop from the previous pace of 74K per day. A consequence of crappy weather. Let’s see what Halloween brings!

“I don’t want to just defeat Andrew Cuomo. I want, in every race I do, anywhere, to defeat the politics of Andrew Cuomo.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Meet THE ⁦@katz_morris⁩* *no relation

the Bronx is going to be hit especially hard by SNAP benefits drying up: “As of 2023, the US Census estimates that Mott Haven has 60% of households on SNAP, the highest rate among all neighborhoods in the city” (via Joe Hong and @karen_yi for @gothamist)

The gov't tried to send a man to prison for 20 years for "inflicting bodily injury" on a DHS agent. How did the man do this? According to the gov't, the man inflicted this injury because the agent scraped his arm when the agent decided to punch out a moving car's window.

A club at @Cornell censored a student for asking a question to a top @andrewcuomo aide, who not only threatened the student but also funding to the university, according to the @cornellsun --> https://t.co/l9iAtDnUSO

Well there you go. The North Carolina Republican Party officially threatens journalists now.

NEW: @DianaCMoreno, a community organizer and union staffer who previously served as co-chair of Queens DSA, is now running to succeed Zohran Mamdani as the Assembly member representing "the People's Republic of Astoria"

Some personal news: I’m preparing to run for Zohran’s Assembly seat. As a Queens mom, an immigrant organizer, and a democratic socialist, I’m ready to fight for the working people of Queens! LET’S WIN THIS!🔥 https://t.co/5ZHIUd0C92

“I have not seen one Muslim that supports the decriminalization of prostitution. I have not seen one Muslim who supports some of the philosophy that's coming under the DSA,” Mayor Adams says. Fact check: there are Muslim DSA members. One, Rashida Tlaib is a member of Congress.

SCOOP: Andrew Cuomo called GOP Council Member Vickie Paladino today asking her to switch her endorsement of Curtis Sliwa and back him instead. (She's not doing it.) More here:

At an event on Oct. 1, Melissa DeRosa lashed out at a Cornell student who asked about Cuomo's harassment allegations: “Watch yourself when you say things like that in public or if you want to be taken seriously.” Atticus Johnson from @cornellsun reports

Recent NYC mayoral polls Quinnipiac: Mamdani 43%, Cuomo 33%, Sliwa 14% Marist: Mamdani 48%, Cuomo 32%, Sliwa 16% Emerson: Mamdani 50%, Cuomo 25%, Sliwa 21% Zenith: Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 29%, Sliwa 15%

Sources: Quinnipiac: https://t.co/YfbG2C1Hzn Marist: https://t.co/MiHykNEW8R Emerson: https://t.co/GxFC8YTS5y Zenith:

Recent NYC mayoral polls Quinnipiac: Mamdani 43%, Cuomo 33%, Sliwa 14% Marist: Mamdani 48%, Cuomo 32%, Sliwa 16% Emerson: Mamdani 50%, Cuomo 25%, Sliwa 21% Zenith: Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 29%, Sliwa 15%

Gov. Hochul is at a Harlem food pantry, flanked by Rev. Al Sharpton, other clergy and local lawmakers, to once again decry the planned shut off of SNAP benefits on Saturday l. "I'm looking at the whole scale of this," she says. "This is all bad."

A sign you're becoming successful: People start calling you lucky. They don't see the 4am wake-ups. The missed parties. The failed attempts. The years of nothing working. They see the result and call it luck because that's easier than admitting they didn't do the work. Let them

New Marist poll of NYC mayor’s race (10/24-28, n=792 likely voters) 🔵 48% Mamdani 🟣 32% Cuomo 🔴 16% Sliwa ⚫️ 3% Undecided Was previously 46-30-18 in their previous poll (9/8-11)

For reference, the mayoral vote was: 🔵 Mamdani: 45% 🟡 Cuomo: 29% 🔴 Sliwa: 15% 🟢 Adams: 3% (dropped out but is still on ballot) ⚫️ Other: 0% 🟣 Undecided: 7% More details (including crosstabs with 109 subgroup breakouts) on that in the days to come.

NEWS: Mike Bloomberg is back off the sidelines, suggesting he may see some movement in the NYC mayor's race. He just gave $1.5 million to Fix the City, the pro-Cuomo, anti-Mamdani super PAC w/@danarubinstein https://t.co/xdvOUl3haH