"'Shame on Sliwa! Shame on Sliwa!' dozens of people at the front of the room jeered, apparently blaming Sliwa, a Republican, for Cuomo’s loss."

"At the bar, one man told his friend it was 'embarrassing.'... With people clearly losing interest, campaign staff sprang into action. They hurried the remaining crowd to the front of the stage.... Cuomo immediately tried to cast his loss as a success, telling the crowd: 'This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic party, the future of this city and the future of this country.' He said tha[t] 50% of New Yorkers had not voted for Mamdani’s agenda...."

I'm reading "Nobody likes a sore loser – but Cuomo declines to bow out gracefully/Despondency reigned at the Ziegfeld Ballroom – and then the defeated candidate found it hard to praise the victor" (The Guardian).

Cuomo was a terrible candidate. He should take responsibility for that. New Yorkers had an array of clowns and picked the one with the smiley face.

AND: "Only a uniquely hated politician with his connections and campaign coffers could bungle an election versus a political unknown this badly. Whether it was his bare-bones daily schedules that spent more time with donors than voters or his desperate flip-flopping on issues like closing Rikers Island during the campaign, Cuomo proved one thing to be true: the only thing he has ever believed in is his own ambition" — from "Andrew Cuomo’s embarrassing loss to Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral election ends Cuomo family political dynasty" (NY Post).