Billionaire-Backed Super PACs Have Donated to Cuomo's Mayoral Campaign
When Curtis Sliwa and Zohran Mamdani cast Andrew M. Cuomo as the candidate backed by billionaires, it was not merely campaign rhetoric. Mr. Cuomo is the candidate favored by super PACs, and those super PACs are heavily funded by billionaires.
Over the course of the election, super PACs supporting Mr. Cuomo have raised more than $40 million from donors, compared with less than $10 million for Mr. Mamdani and around $1 million for Mr. Sliwa.
Even so, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat running on an independent ballot line, is trailing Mr. Mamdani, a Democrat and a democratic socialist, in the polls. Mr. Sliwa, the Republican candidate, is in third place.
Nearly 70 percent of that super PAC fund-raising happened during the Democratic primary for mayor. During the general election, more of the donor class has remained on the sidelines.
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