Other data of note:
Mamdani continues to go beastmode with young people, putting up regime numbers with a 73% vote share of the under 29 demographic, and a still commanding 62% of voters between the ages of 30 and 44
Amongst all candidates, a plurality of voters believe Mamdani has best addressed the Israel-Palestinian conflict
The problem with any of that for the establishment is that he’s just too tame and well liked. It would accomplish more for him and his movement than it would for them. It would honestly be quite hard to ratfuck him at this point. The best thing they can do is make him look horrible as mayor and try to kill the movement with unpopularity.
Regardless of if the other candidates drop out and coalesce the field around Cuomo, it’s too late for them to remove their names from the ballot, which is essentially the kiss of death. They will need 100% of their combined vote share, and no amount of campaigning between now and Election Day will stop at least a few percent from going to them. The only way they can be removed from the ballot is if they literally move out of New York State and fight their own ballot presence in court as illegal, in which case it would be far more obvious what’s happening.
didn’t their current mayor do that a while ago? lol