Think you know where the candidates for New York mayor are coming from? Think again. With less than 90 days to go before Election Day, the candidates are all migrating toward the political center, dropping old positions and adopting new ones, freely copying one another’s policies and style along the way.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, is downplaying and disavowing years-old social media posts about the NYPD, now claiming “I am not defunding the police; I am not running to defund the police” and describing himself as a “candidate who is not fixed in time, one that learns and one that leads, and part of that means admitting as I have grown.” Andrew Cuomo, whose unsuccessful Democratic primary campaign began with a clunky seven-minute video followed by months of conventional campa

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