NYC Democratic primary mayor debate: Live updates, reactions, analysis

MetroNYC Democratic primary mayor debate live updates: Candidates call Trump’s Columbia defunding ‘gross,’ ‘unacceptable’By Craig McCarthy, Matt Troutman, David Propper, Hannah Fierick, Carl

Campanile and Kaydi PelletierUpdatedJune 4, 2025, 9:50 p.m. ET

Nine Democratic candidates for NYC mayor, including the two frontrunners — ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo and socialist state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani — faced off Wednesday in the first

debate of the 2025 primary election.

A clear “winner” did emerge.

Keep reading for all the key moments from the Dems’ sparring session.

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