New Yorkers head to polls early in divisive Democratic primary election

Early voting began in the city on Saturday with a small but stalwart contingent of Democrats slogging through rainswept streets to select a mayoral candidate in one of the most contentious primary elections in recent memory.

Voters trickled into polling places across the Big Apple. In both Brooklyn and Manhattan, many had their eyes on supporting Zohran Mamdani and City Comptroller Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in a field of 11, in their bid for the Democratic nomination.

Mamdani and Lander cross-endorsed each other Friday, asking their respective supporters to rank the other candidate second on their ballots.

Very few early voters who spoke to the Daily News on Saturday endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At a Greenpoint, Brooklyn, polling location, one voter wore a shirt reading, “Don’t Rank Cuomo.”




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