Cuomo's camp tried to get Sliwa to drop out because hypothetically that would give him a somwhat fighting chance, but frankly even still he was projected to lose by 5%, a slide still, but it was hoped that Cuomo could make up room then in that 5% by going hard in this debate. Though now that this debate is done it is obvious that though we'll give Cuomo a little credit in that he defended his spot and won't take damage I think from the debate, he didn't KO Mamdani like he hoped and like would be neccessary if Sliwa were to drop out and align with him, at best he bruised Mamdani a little bit, but not enough to make up for catching hands from both Mamdani and Sliwa combined. So Mamdani gonna win that. Don't get me wrong either I really liked Sliwa in both debates, as a debater he was spot on in both debates, but lol he's about hit his cap at 15%, he's not going to win, and even if he did his problem is similar to Mamdani in that they're green and inexperienced and NYC is in a dire situation and they're both kinda idealistic. Cuomo in this 2nd debate actually did go strong on the defense and does show he genuinely does have both the experience and the more executive mindset required, but like Mamadani sealed him with near the end, we all know what the greater details of his experience is, and his reign is still fresh in people's minds. I'd say for Cuomo in this debate, since it might be the last debate of his career he does at least somewhat redeem his legacy with it, but he will lose this race, we understand why some of the hard decisions he made were made and that the world is not perfect and that the role of leadership is often making hard decisions, but at the same time he also massively failed already in a greater office of leadership than the one he is seeking, this referendum on him already was had in the democrat primary where the People rrejected his return and nominated Mamdani already, so yea Mamdani is gonna win, the rest of the democrats the middle left, they're not centrists, the centrists were like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, they are the middle left, they will fall in line they always do or they'll be pushed out into being independents that fade into obscurity like Cuomo, the democrat party is straight up going far left and the extreme radicals will succeeed in hijacking the democrat party.