Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, CNN has learned. That leaves in place contingency plans he had established before the Democratic primary to challenge Zohran Mamdani and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in November.

On Tuesday night, shortly before polls closed in New York's Democratic mayoral primary, and less than an hour until the first signs of his seismic upset over Andrew Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani was in a Brooklyn park,

Mamdani, who defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and several other contenders in Tuesday’s primary, is a democratic socialist who campaigned on establishing city-run grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage by 2030 and free tuition at city colleges.