New York's billionaires have been working to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor of New York, and their effort got an unexpected boost when sitting NYC mayor Eric Adams announced that he would drop out of the race. Now the field has narrowed to Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. (In a fun twist that will surely not confuse voters, Adams's name will still appear on the ballot in November.) According to the Mamdani campaign- and political strategists-Adams dropping out changes nothing: The democratic socialist is still going to trounce the former governor in the general election, just like he did during the primaries. Yet wealthy New Yorkers are cheering the news-and seeing a path to victory for their candidate of choice (which, sorry to the Cat Daddy of New York politics, is not Curtis Sliwa).