Rev. Al Sharpton calls on Andrew Cuomo to drop out of NYC mayoral race: ‘Look at what is best for the city'
'I think, in the best interest of the legacy of Andrew Cuomo, that he ought to let them have the one-on-one race,' Sharpton said Wednesday on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe.'
3 Al Sharpton called on Andrew Cuomo to drop out of the NYC mayoral race Wednesday.
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3 Sharpton urged Cuomo to 'look at what is best for the city.'
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'He can endorse one or the other, and let them have a battle over what is best for New York.'
Sharpton added that he had reached out to Cuomo's people to try to get him to abandon his bid.
Calls to Cuomo's camp were not returned.
The call comes just a day after the full primary results came in, showing socialist Zohran Mamdani trounced Cuomo by 12 points in just three rounds of ranked-choice voting.
Days earlier, Sharpton hosted Mamdani at his National Action Network HQ, giving the Democratic nominee a chance to make his pitch to black voters, and seemingly endorsed some of the assemblyman's campaign vows, such as freezing the rent.
3 Zohran Mamdani trounced Cuomo by 12 points in just three rounds of ranked-choice voting.
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The influential Sharpton shopped short of formally endorsing Mamdani.
Cuomo has flip-flopped on his run for governor, but he will still be on the ballot on an independent line come November along with Mamdani and GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa, as well as two others on independent lines, Eric Adams and Jim Walden.
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