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.

Zohran Mamdani tells Jen Psaki that Cuomo conceding the NYC mayoral race is a "larger referendum" on the Democratic Party. "One of the hopes that we had from the very beginning of this campaign was to move our political instinct from lecturing to listening,