In the weeks since the primary, several prominent donors who had been supportive of Cuomo pledged their support to Adams in the general election, including billionaire hedge-fund managers Dan Loeb and Bill Ackman, both of whom have become so entwined with the Adams operation that they have helped vet campaign hires.

Give us a brake. Self-proclaimed auto enthusiast Andrew Cuomo was ripped online Wednesday for a “cringe” new campaign video where he purports to help a man jump start a car in an unstaged New York

The former governor, now running for NYC mayor as an independent, is trying to up his social media game. Zohran Mamdani's supporters quickly noticed.

The shocking vote of confidence came despite Mayor Eric Adams, who has repeatedly cozied up to Trump, also vying for re-election on an independent line in the general race. Adams has attacked Cuomo for staying in the race, claiming that he alone should be the one to take on Mamdani in November.

But one reply has more engagement than all of them, like double Cuomo's original post, and that's from Mamdani himself.

Mr. Cuomo, the former governor of New York, has vowed to run a more energetic campaign than he did in the mayoral primary, and aimed to demonstrate that on Tuesday.