Andrew Cuomo is set to unleash a barrage of attacks at Zohran Mamdani during the first mayoral debate of the New York City general election Thursday — as the political veteran tries to catch up to the front-runner.

The former governor will likely try to jump-start his struggling, second-place campaign by pouncing on the far-left Democratic nominee, including over his pro-prostitution stance and his controversial photo posing with an anti-LBGTQ Uganda official, pundits said.

“Cuomo will be working feverishly to throw Mamdani off balance and expose him as the radical he says he is,” said Andrew Kirtzman, managing director of the consulting firm Actum.

“But I have yet to see Mamdani get tripped up on anything significant this campaign – he’s phenomenally fast on his feet.”

But Cuomo, th

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