FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 12, 2025
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If Candidates Embrace DREAMBox Strategy During Debate, Cuomo Loses
With new poll showing Mamdani beating Cuomo, candidates must to do what’s best for city, focus on Cuomo’s chaos and corruption and cross endorse during second debate
New York, New York - With a new poll showing Zohran Mamdani surging past disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo to take the lead, the second debate will be a test for all candidates. Will they do what’s best for the city and focus on Cuomo, or turn on each other and hand him a victory?
Cuomo will be legally forced from hiding and onto a debate stage again tonight, giving mayoral candidates and New Yorkers a second chance to focus on the chaos and corruption he’d bring if in charge of the city. Polls show that DREAM (Don’t Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor) is working and can be the margin of defeat for Cuomo who gains only 11 points through the final round of rank choice voting while Mamdani picks up "16 percentage points from the first to the eighth round".
Said the DREAM campaign: “DREAM is no longer a dream. New polls show Cuomo struggles with rank choice voting and there is the momentum to beat him. The tools needed to bring Cuomo down once and for all are in the DREAMBox and publicly available to everyone. Now is the moment for every New Yorker to stand united against Cuomo and for candidates to cross-endorse and push DREAM.”
In the final stretch before the Democratic mayoral primary, the DREAM campaign launched the DREAMBox, a public facing political and messaging strategy toolkit designed to equip progressives to beat Cuomo on June 24. The voting strategy calls to:
- Demand immediate cross-endorsements
- Instructing supporters to not rank Cuomo
- Strongly consider ranking Zohran Mamdani as high as possible based on clear polling trends, army of volunteers and on-the-ground enthusiasm
- Attack Cuomo using the DREAM framing: Focus on the Future, and Cuomo Chaos & Corruption
Soon after The DREAMBox was released, the Working Families Party announced it was endorsing Zohran Mamdani #1 and recommending a full 5 candidate ranking to defeat Cuomo, Mamdani encouraged supporters to rank other candidates, and AOC, one of the most popular Democrats in the country, has embraced the strategy.
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