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Andrew Cuomo on Thursday denied speaking with President Donald Trump or seeking his help in the upcoming New York City mayoral election a day after a New York Times report said the two men had spoken on the phone.

“That’s false,” Cuomo told reporters at a press conference in Manhattan.

But the former New York governor also pressed his case, both at the press conference and at a closed-door gathering a day earlier, that he would be better suited than Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani to deal with the Republican president, a native New Yorker closely attuned to his hometown’s politics but also someone who is broadly disliked by the city’s Democrats.

“My knowledge

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