With “defund the police” still in New Yorkers’ ears, getting traction in the mayor’s race was complicated.
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By Nicole Gelinas
Ms. Gelinas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
With early voting having begun in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, the race looks to be between Andrew Cuomo, the freshly de-disgraced former governor, and Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist state assemblyman who is running to dispense expensive new entitlements.
But it didn’t have to be that way.
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