With the candidates in the New York City mayoral race now officially set, controversies and questions are starting to arise.

The outcome of New York City's mayoral race is nationally significant as the city remains a major liberal stronghold.

Calling on former governor Andrew Cuomo to drop out, the billionaire hedge fund manager endorsed the incumbent NYC mayor as the only credible alternative to Zohran Mamdani.

The president, who has a history of spewing sometimes vile insults at rivals, has in recent days escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described democratic socialist. Trump has threatened to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even to take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November.

President Trump slammed Zohran Mamdani on Thursday as a “communist at the highest level” — and argued the Democratic socialist mayoral frontrunner wants to “destroy” the Big Apple. “In

US President Donald Trump vows he will not let NYC Democratic primary candidate Zohran Mamdani “destroy” New York.