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Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, has nearly four times more campaign funds than Andrew M. Cuomo, thought to be his closest rival.
Aug. 28, 2025, 3:57 p.m. ET
Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, widened a fund-raising advantage over his rivals on Thursday, securing another $1.9 million as the city doled out matching public funds.
Mr. Mamdani had reported a surge in small campaign donations last week. But the new funds awarded by the New York City Campaign Finance Board brought his cash total to about $6.3 million, putting him on the strongest financial footing heading into fall campaigning.
The board doled out $1.4 million in matching funds to Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee; $482,000 to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s third-party campaign; and about $35,000 to Jim Walden, another independent.
The numbers suggested that Mr. Cuomo, in particular, had fallen well behind Mr. Mamdani’s fund-raising pace as the former governor sprinted to get back into the race after losing June’s Democratic primary to the democratic socialist upstart.
Even after transferring $68,000 from the state campaign account he used before resigning as governor and hosting several high-dollar fund-raising events in the Hamptons, Mr. Cuomo ended Thursday with only around $1.6 million in cash on hand.
The news was worse for Mayor Eric Adams, whose third-party campaign was once again outright denied any funds under the program. (The city gives qualifying candidates an eight-to-one match of small-dollar donations.)
