The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Mamdani also wants to end the highly-sought gifted and talented programs for the youngest students, but what he doesn't realize is that doing away with accelerated learning in the early grades will cause families to abandon the public school system for religious or private schools or by moving out of the city.
47% : How will he pay for his expensive plans if his hoped-for state tax increases don't materialize?
43% : Mamdani's disdain for Israel is palpable but he is trying to put a coat of acceptable paint over it.
40% : His combined programs will cost billions every year and his goal to have Albany impose two new taxes, one on the personal income of top earners and the other on corporations, are both dead letters in the state Capitol.
40% : It was Cuomo who brought in same-sex marriage, the $15 minimum wage and congestion pricing.
29% : Mamdani's efforts to thread a needle on Israel and Gaza are sadly transparent.

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