Out and about the Saturday before Election Day, Mamdani and Cuomo court Black voters

With three days until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani appeared on Saturday with many of the city’s Black power brokers. The Democratic mayoral nominee started the day at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, where he received about as much praise as he could from Sharpton, short of the civil rights activist making an endorsement. “It’s the Saturday before Election Day,” Sharpton told a packed audience at the House of Justice in East Harlem, which was largely Black and skewed older. “Only one candidate showed up.”

Sharpton added that Mamdani has shown up at other events, including his March on Wall Street and NAN’s Triumph Awards in September. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running for mayor as an independent, missed both events. During the primary, the situation was somewhat reversed: Sharpton praised Cuomo and criticized Mamdani.

In his remarks at NAN’s 145th Street homebase, Mamdani quoted scripture (and Sharpton). He spoke about the Reconstruction era, calling it another time that the country has “teetered on the precipice of hopelessness.” “Those alive in 1865 knew what we know today: political freedom without economic freedom is no freedom at all,” Mamdani said.

After that, he attended services at the Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist church in Fort Greene with state Attorney General Letitia James. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who recently offered a muted endorsement of the Democratic nominee, was there too. Mamdani’s campaign also let it be known that he spoke with Barack Obama on Saturday.



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