Don’t expect a final answer on New York’s future when the Primary Day polls close Tuesday night. Between absentee ballots, ranked-choice voting and the city’s glacial vote-transfer process, it may take weeks to know who won the Democratic nomination.
But even once the party’s mayoral candidate is officially named, voters may be in for a surprise the city hasn’t seen in decades.
In a deep-blue city where Democrats are used to wrapping up elections in June by default, this year might be different.
That’s because the Democratic frontrunners, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, may both appear on the general-election ballot regardless of Tuesday’s outcome.
Cuomo already secured his own “Fight and Deliver” party line.
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Jesse Arm is the director of external affairs and presidential initiatives at the Manhattan Institute.
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