Andrew Cuomo, former New York Governor and independent candidate for New York City Mayor, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the state of the New York City mayoral race, rise of Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani,

The proudly far-left Democratic nominee, maintained his frontrunner status in a four-way race with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, according to the poll released Tuesday and paid for by Wick Insights.

He is not the Democratic nominee. He is an independent. And unlike even the optimistic forecasts for Zohran Mamdani’s victory last month, Cuomo is not campaigning in the wake of any razor-thin margin or ranked-choice-vote calculus that pushed him into a close second. He really came nowhere close to winning.