Former Governor Andrew Cuomo will stay in the race for New York City’s next mayor despite conceding his loss in the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani and losing that election by more than 12 percentage points.
Cuomo, who resigned from the governor's office in 2021 under a cloud of sexual misconduct allegations, will stay in the mayor’s race as an independent, joining an already-crowded general election ballot alongside scandal-plagued current Mayor Eric Adams.