On July 14, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced the relaunch of his New York mayoral campaign, this time as a third-party candidate, following his defeat in the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo lost to Mamdani by 12 percentage points on June 24 despite a super political action committee (PAC) spending more than $22 million, the largest amount in the city’s history. Spending is sure to spike as the candidate’s respective campaigns advance towards November 4, and per a recent ARTnews data analysis, prominent art world figures have already gotten involved in the race. Those who made donations to Cuomo’s campaign include: Related Articles Phillips Accuses Billionaire's Son of Failing to Pay for Jackson Pollock Painting Largest Martian Meteorite Ever Found Heads to Auction at Sotheby's Loeb also made an individual campaign contribution of $2100. Mamdani also received campaign donations from notable names in the art industry, including: The following names respectively made donations of less than $100 to Mamdani’s campaign: Mamdani also received donations from actors Hannah Einbinder (Hacks), Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live), and Cynthia Nixon; as well as Tony-winning playwright Tony Kushner. In a more general look at major donor involvement, the pro-Cuomo Fix the City superPAC included $5 million from billionaire former mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as $250,000 from Top 200 collector and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, reported the New York Times. By comparison, the pro-Mamdani super PAC New Yorkers for Lower Costs raised about $1.4 million. On March 24, Gothamist reported that Cuomo raised $1.5 million compared to Mamdani’s $1.4 million. While a large portion of the individual donations to Mamdani’s mayoral campaign were under $100, he also had significantly higher number of donations, with more than 27,600, compared to Cuomo’s 6,500, according to publicly available data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Mamdani’s campaign also raised more than $900,000 from city residents eligible for a $8-to-$1 match program; far more than the just over $330,000 that Cuomo raised that was eligible for the same program from city residents.
