Cuomo Relaunches Campaign For Mayor: See Video

NEW YORK CITY — Andrew Cuomo is staying in the race.

The former governor relaunched his bid for mayor in New York City's general mayoral election on Monday with a short video posted to his social media.

Three people familiar with the matter told The New York Times that instead of running on the Democratic party line, the former governor will be running an independent third-party campaign.

This news comes after Cuomo was soundly defeated in the primary election by Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist state assemblyman from Queens, who won with 56 percent of the vote.

Mamdani will be running on the Democratic line in November.

However, if the polls show that Cuomo is not the highest-ranked challenger to Mamdani by early September, the former governor will pledge to drop out of the race, according to the New York Times.

The loss in the Democratic primary in late June proved to be an unexpected blow to Cuomo, who was ahead in the polls until the eleventh hour.

"Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that the Democratic primary did not go the way I had hoped," Cuomo said in the video announcement Monday.

"My opponent, Mr. Mamdani, offers slick slogans, but no real solutions. We need a city with lower rent, safer streets, where buying your first home is once again possible, where child care won't bankrupt you."

According to a recent poll conducted by political consulting firm Slingshot Strategies, Mamdani is leading in the general election with 35 percent of the vote, followed by Cuomo in second place with 25 percent, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa with 14 percent and Mayor Eric Adams in fourth place with 11 percent.

The general election will be on Nov. 4.

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