Month: November 2025

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have already cast their ballots in the first days of early voting in the NYC mayoral election, as the three front-runners show no signs of letting up on their campaigns.

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Democratic nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani sought out older voters on Friday, doing Tai Chi with seniors on the Lower East Side, before heading out with trick-or-treaters in Park Slope on Halloween evening. Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic governor of New York who is running as an independent, courted conservatives in Brighton Beach, while the Republican Curtis Sliwa was in Greenwich Village on the sixth day of early voting, ahead of November 4 election day.

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Some 480,000 people have already voted in the closely watched New York City mayoral election by Saturday, outpacing the last election, as big money has poured in from national figures trying to prevent democratic socialist Mamdani from taking the reins in the nation’s most populous city.

Public filings show former mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $3.5 million this week to a super PAC opposing Mamdani, and $1.5 million to another PAC supporting Cuomo. Meanwhile, Cuomo continued to post pictures and AI-generated videos that claimed a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani, aiming to sway conservative voters to his campaign.

Despite the big spending, Mamdani remains a clear frontrunner in the polls, as the Democratic nominee maintains his double-digit lead over the former Governor in most polls leading up to the election—even as the polls have narrowed slightly.

Unlike the primaries, the general election does not use ranked-choice voting, so the candidate with the most votes after election day will become mayor.

Here is a breakdown of the latest polls as we head into the final days of the campaign.

AtlasIntel (Oct 25-30)

Zohran Mamdani 41%    Andrew Cuomo 34%    Curtis Sliwa 24%

Poll details: 1,587 likely voters.

Beacon Research/Shaw & Company Research (Oct 24-28)

Zohran Mamdani 47% Andrew Cuomo 31% Curtis Sliwa 15%

Poll details: 971 likely voters.

Marist University (Oct 24-28)

Zohran Mamdani 48%    Andrew Cuomo 32%    Curtis Sliwa 16%

Poll details: 792 likely voters.

Quinnipiac University (Oct 23-27)

Zohran Mamdani 43%  Andrew Cuomo 33%    Curtis Sliwa 14%

Poll details: 911 likely voters.

Emerson College (Oct 25-27)

Zohran Mamdani 51%   Andrew Cuomo 26%    Curtis Sliwa 21%

Poll details: 640 likely voters.

Manhattan Institute (Oct 22-26)

Zohran Mamdani 43%   Andrew Cuomo 28%    Curtis Sliwa 15%

Poll details: 600 likely voters.

J.L. Partners (Oct 23-26)

Zohran Mamdani 43%    Andrew Cuomo 29%    Curtis Sliwa 19%

Poll details: 500 likely voters.

Suffolk University (Oct 23-26)

Zohran Mamdani 44%   Andrew Cuomo 34%    Curtis Sliwa 11%

Poll details: 500 likely voters.

Victory Insights (Oct 22-23)

Zohran Mamdani 47%   Andrew Cuomo 29%    Curtis Sliwa 16%

Poll details: 500 likely voters.

Zenith Research (Oct 14-20)

Zohran Mamdani 45%   Andrew Cuomo 29%    Curtis Sliwa 15%

Poll details: 837 likely voters.

Patriot Polling (Oct 18-19)

Zohran Mamdani 43%   Andrew Cuomo 32%    Curtis Sliwa 19%

Poll details: 715 likely voters.

Gotham Polling & Analytics Oct (22-26)

Zohran Mamdani 43%.    Andrew Cuomo 29%    Curtis Sliwa 19%

Poll details: 1,040 likely voters.

• Warren Buffett just published the details of his penultimate quarter as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.
• Berkshire’s operating profits soared and its cash pile hit a new high.
• But Buffett once again struggled to find bargains.

Warren Buffett‘s penultimate quarter as Berkshire Hathaway CEO saw the company’s operating earnings soar and its cash pile grow to a fresh record of over $350 billion, but the legendary investor once again struggled to find bargains.

Berkshire’s third-quarter earnings report on Saturday showed a 34% year-on-year surge in operating income to $13.5 billion, as insurance underwriting income nearly tripled to $2.4 billion.

Profits also climbed at the BNSF Railway and in the manufacturing, service, and retailing division. The Berkshire Hathaway Energy and the insurance investment segment saw a drop in operating earnings.

Buffett, 95, and his team spent $6.4 billion on stocks but sold $12.5 billion worth, making them net sellers for the 12th quarter in a row. Berkshire will disclose which US stocks it bought and sold in a regulatory filing later this month.

The legendary stock picker didn’t buy back any Berkshire shares for a fifth consecutive quarter, signaling that even his own company’s stock didn’t strike him as a bargain. The stock sales and lack of buybacks contributed to Berkshire’s cash pile swelling to $358 billion, or $382 billion if payables for Treasury purchases are excluded.

Buffett rocked the business world in May when he broke the news to an arena full of Berkshire shareholders that he would step down as CEO at the end of this year after 55 years in the role.

Greg Abel, who leads Berkshire’s non-insurance businesses, is set to succeed him, with Buffett staying on as chairman.

It hasn’t been a total deal drought for Buffett as he prepares to hand over the reins, however.

On October 2, Berkshire announced it had agreed to pay nearly $10 billion to acquire OxyChem, a chemicals business, from Occidental Petroleum, which counts Berkshire as one of its largest shareholders.