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A ton. Coming up on today's show, new polls showing that Andrew Cuomo is closing the gap on Zorn Mamdani. What does that mean? Plus, we examine one of the more bizarre videos of the campaign season. Rabbis for Mamdani. Is that a real thing? Spoiler alert. Not so much. Plus, we're joined by the speaker of the House of Representatives about the government shutdown. First, less than two weeks ago, we launched our new flagship show, Friendly Fire, right here on Daily Wire. Plus, it's me, Matt Walsh, Michael Moles, Andrew Clavin coming together live to debate, discuss and yes, disagree on the biggest stories making headlines. In our very first episode, we dropped two massive announcements, the all new Daily Wire lifetime membership and the first look at our upcoming epic the Pendragon cycle. Tomorrow night, we're back with an all new live episode and more big announcements you're not going to want to miss. Plus, our deal of the decade is happening right now. Join Daily Wire plus for as little as $7 a month at DailyWire.com watch Friendly Fire live tomorrow night at 7pm Eastern on Daily Wire. Plus. Well, folks, there is some good news out of New York. Now, it's not enough good news out of New York, but it's some good news. Apparently there's a brand new poll in New York that shows that Cuomo is actually catching up to Zoran Mamdani. Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York who is really the only hope at stopping Zoran Mamdani in the New York mayoral race. Curtis Lewis sticking around for reasons unknown to anyone but himself and his family. Apparently this brand new poll that is out from Suffolk University shows that Mamdani no longer leads Cuomo by 20 points or 15 points. That lead is down to 10 and Mamdani is stuck at 44%. Now, typically when somebody wins that New York mayoral race, they win well over a majority. Here you have Mandani at 44, you have Cuomo at 34, and you have Sliwa at 11%. And so again, there's gonna be a lot of talk if Mandani ends up mayor about why Curtis Lewa stayed in the race. And this is not an anti Curtis point. This is just a reality point. Curtis Lea is not going to be the next mayor of New York. And if his vote share is larger than the margin of victory for Mandani, they're going to be a lot of questions to be asked. And again, the main question is going to be asked of Andrew Cuomo. Why is he such a terrible candidate? And there'll be big questions of the New York population. Why are you all insipid? But the real question for Sliwa is going to be why you didn't drop out. As David Paliologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research center, says, there's one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome, and it's Sliwa. So this is the first poll since Mayor Adams, Eric Adams dropped out of the race. Most of his support was led on over to Andrew Cuomo. It is also the second poll to show Cuomo narrowing the gap with Mamdani since Adams dropped out of the race. A lot of the opposition to Mom Donnie is materializing his support for Cuomo, which is precisely what you would expect, because again, it's not like Andrew Cuomo is any great shakes. Momdani is running a terrible final week of this campaign, truly an awful, awful final week of this campaign. He has decided that his closing message is going to be that New York City is famous for Islamophobia and if you don't elect him, it's because you don't like Muslims. Which is a wild statement in a city that suffered 9 11, where apparently the only victim of 9 11, according to Zoran Mamdani, was his not aunt. And I say not aunt advisedly because as it turns out, it was not in fact his aunt who was wearing some sort of hijab on the subway and somebody gave him a mean look. According to the New York Post, the aunt whose wrong mom, Donnie said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 911 is actually his father's cousin, a distant relative. In other words, how many of your father's cousins do you know? Like a lot of them. My parents have cousins and we know like maybe one. Maybe like that kind of strange. The socialist mayoral frontrunner made the revelation during a press conference Monday after critics pointed out that his actual aunt doesn't have a hijab and was in Tanzania during the time period he was talking about. So instead, he said, I was speaking about Zara Fuhi, my father's cousin who passed away a few years ago. That relative he affectionately called his aunt. Mamdani's campaign, however, did not provide the cousin's full name when asked, because if they did, then there might be some fact checking as to whether this person was in New York City at the time and whether this person was in fact subject to the predations of evil New Yorkers looking askance at hijab wearers on the New York subway system. And Zoramdani, who has spent his entire life being useless. And now his final closing pitch is why won't you give me the mayoralty? And if you don't, it's because you're mean to Muslims. That's the closing pitch. I mean that is the mark of a person who truly feels entitled to everything. Is that if you won't give him the mayoralty of the financial center of planet Earth, it must be not because he's a bad candidate, not because he's an out and out communist, not because he is a sympathizer with jihadists, but because you are mean to Muslims. So here is Zoramdani doubling, tripling down on this.