"While Zohran Mamdani has vile views and worse politics, his campaign has been a logistical triumph and his Democratic debate performance in May was startlingly impressive. There was every reason to expect his debate showdown last night with Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa would be another feather in his cap. It wasn't. Mamdani flopped. His answers were defensive. He seemed angry at being questioned at all."
"It seemed offensive to him that he would have to offer an explanation for having called for defunding the police and refusing to accept the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. He claimed he never said things he said or that he shouldn't be accountable for words he wrote only five years ago. He did not seem like a young and happy warrior, more like a petulant graduate student."
Zohran Mamdani's campaign achieved logistical success despite controversial positions, and his earlier Democratic debate performance had impressed observers. In a recent debate with Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, Mamdani performed poorly, answering defensively and resisting accountability for past calls to defund the police and statements about Israel. He disputed or minimized remarks he had made five years earlier and appeared petulant rather than energized. Cuomo performed worse, displaying inarticulateness, frequent fillers, and inability to sustain arguments while attempting to dismiss legal claims tied to his 2022 resignation. Curtis Sliwa's performance further weakened Cuomo and left Mamdani's mayoral momentum intact.
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