Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Siff reporting on 2 weeks until democratic primary in mayor’s race.

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared on a Bloomberg podcast Monday morning. Later in the day he met with the company namesake: Michael Bloomberg himself, inside the billionaire’s Lexington Avenue offices, according to two people briefed on their sit-down. That meeting paid dividends a day later, with an endorsement from the former mayor.  “In sizing up the field...

The former governor has so far avoided face-to-face meetings with his Democratic rivals, who presently all trail him in the polls.

With just over three weeks left until the Democratic Primary for New York City mayor, the Working Families Party late Friday issued its ranked endorsement of candidates in the race. At the top of the ticket, the progressive group ranked state Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani as their first-choice candidate; then followed City Comptroller Brad Lander, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams,…

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was denied another six-figure sum in public matching funds, while City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams was given a seven-figure boost by the Campaign Finance Board. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports. 

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign calls it an outlier. Zohran Mamdani says Cuomo has “hit his ceiling.” And Brad Lander’s interpretation of a new Emerson College poll? “This is a three-person race!”  The candidates weighed in after Emerson’s late-May survey of 500 registered voters showed Cuomo prevailing, 54% to 46% over Mamdani, after ten rounds of ranked choice voting. But many New…

The race for mayor in New York City may be tightening. A new poll shows Zohran Mamdani making gains on Andrew Cuomo. But many voters are still making up their minds in the final weeks before the primary. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Andrew Cuomo is the first choice of roughly four in ten likely voters in the upcoming ranked-choice Democratic primary and remains the clear frontrunner in the race, according to a new Marist Poll released overnight Wednesday. The poll suggested that many Cuomo backers don’t seem to like anyone else. “Their most popular second choice was nobody,” pollster Lee Miringoff said. ...

In the race for New York City mayor, candidate and former governor Andrew Cuomo nailed endorsements of two big firefighter unions, but it comes as an investigation is holding up a big infusion of campaign funds for him. City officials announced they suspect Cuomo’s campaign improperly tried to collude with an outside super PAC funded by billionaire donors. NBC New...

Andrew Cuomo denied trying to “make any political deals with anyone” after Brooklyn State Senator Zellnor Myrie said he had rejected an effort from Cuomo’s campaign to forge an alliance. The Myrie campaign doubled down Monday, with a source claiming to have firsthand knowledge of the campaigns’ phone conversations releasing a quote attributed to Cuomo’s political director. Melissa Russo...

The subcommittee controlled by House Republicans sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, bumping up their claim from last year that Cuomo made what they call “multiple criminally false statements” during transcribed testimony last summer.

There’s a new push to prosecute former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing him of lying to Congress about his role in the COVID nursing home crisis. Cuomo was first referred for criminal prosecution in October after concluding he made criminally false statements to Congress about efforts to undercount nursing home deaths. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo reports.

In the race for NYC mayor, frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is downplaying a new tax-funded payout to one of the women on his staff who accused him of sexual harassment. The settlement does not admit any wrongdoing, but Cuomo’s rivals are slamming the cost of several ongoing controversies the former governor is facing as he looks to resurrect his political career....

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs in with his thoughts on an Andrew Cuomo candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

A new poll is suggesting former governor Andrew Cuomo is pulling out way ahead of the competition in the race for NYC mayor, sporting a double-digit lead over the second place candidate, Zohran Mamdani. Mayor Eric Adams was fourth in the poll. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reports.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo is suing the New York State Comptroller’s office to get taxpayers to pay his legal bills for yet another lawsuit Cuomo filed against the office of his political nemesis, State Attorney General Letitia James.

Various scandals that cost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job have already cost New York taxpayers almost $60 million in legal fees. But the New York state comptroller’s office says they are drawing a line, refusing to pay the legal fees Cuomo has racked up specifically battling his political nemesis Attorney General Letitia James. NBC New York’s Melissa Russo...

The former governor of New York announced a bid for a different office: this time he hopes to be the mayor of New York City.

Lindsey Boylan helped drive Andrew Cuomo from office in 2021 when the former aide came forward as the first woman to accuse the governor of sexual harassment.

Can a former governor accused of slashing transit funding — and triggering the “summer of hell” — rebrand himself as a mayor who innovates and invests on transportation issues? His critics are skeptical.  “Andrew Cuomo doesn’t wanna run on his record,” Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a candidate for Mayor, said Friday. “He wants to run on mine.” Mamdani proposed the…