As reported at Fox News, frontrunners for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa wasted little time attacking each other on alleged personal scandals and political shortcomings during Wednesday night's debate.
"My main opponent has no new ideas. He has no new plan. … He's never run anything, managed anything. He's never had a real job," Cuomo said of Mamdani during the debate.
Cuomo also branded Mamdani as someone who has proven to be "a divisive force in New York," pointing to past incidents that have garnered Mamdani heat from critics.
One of those incidents included a picture he took with a hard-lined Ugandan lawmaker who has pushed policies of imprisoning people for being gay, which Mamdani took while taking a break from the campaign trail to visit his home country of Uganda for a wedding.
Cuomo also hit the controversy over whether Mamdani supports Jewish New Yorkers, as his critics have claimed he is anti-Israel pointing to statements he has made, like "globalize the intifada."
Cuomo also accused Mamdani of disrespecting Italian-Americans after a video of him surfaced giving the middle finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus.