Andrew Cuomo, left, and Zohran Mamdani. Reuters/Getty Images

In the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, Andrew Cuomo tried to run a campaign of inevitability. In these last few weeks of his general election bid as an independent, he is running a campaign of attrition, hoping to get enough voters to come to him through battered acquiescence as the choice they’re least unhappy with.

That isn’t the usual formula for a winning campaign. But this remains a strange race, with all the New Yorkers who don’t like Cuomo personally or politically overlapping at times with all the New Yorkers who can’t stomach Zohran Mamdani’s proud democratic socialism and opposition to Zionism, as well as all the New Yorkers struggling to see GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa as anything other than the wacky lo

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