Andrew Cuomo was the main punching bag at Thursday’s first general election mayoral debate, with Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa repeatedly ganging up on the former governor, knocking him on everything from his reliance on billionaire donors to what Mamdani is spinning as his collegial relationship with President Trump.

Cuomo, who’s running as an independent in the Nov. 4 mayoral election, swatted back, mostly at Mamdani, contending the 33-year-old democratic socialist doesn’t have the experience to be mayor while also painting him as ideologically extreme on issues like taxation , policing and the Israel-Hamas war.

“His divisiveness is chronic,” Cuomo said at one point during the often testy two-hour debate, held at the NBC studios a

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