Mamdani targets senior voters as he seeks to blunt Cuomo edge with older NYers
Seeking to curry favor with a constituency that has been somewhat skeptical of him, Democratic mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani participated in a watercolor painting class with older New Yorkers at a senior center in Brooklyn on Thursday.
His outreach effort received a mixed response.
“He sounds very impressive, but it’s like I’m saying I just learned about him … It’s just all of a sudden he’s running for mayor, and I’m like, ‘Who is he? What did he do before?’ I don’t know any of that,” Denise Lipscomb, a 67-year-old retired city government worker, told the Daily News after listening to Mamdani deliver remarks to her and other seniors participating in the painting class at the Fort Greene Council in Bedstuy.
Lipscomb, who used to work for the city’s Human Resources Administration, said she will vote in Tuesday’s mayoral election, but remains unsure about who to back between Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, his chief rival in the race.
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