Andrew Cuomo isn’t going to let a little thing like losing the Democratic mayoral primary by more than 124,000 votes stop him from running for mayor. You see, the lifelong Democrat is — presto-change-o – an independent now.

“Only 13 percent of New Yorkers voted in the June primary,” Cuomo whines in a new video. Hey, whose job was it to persuade New Yorkers to come out and vote for Cuomo in the primary? Oh, that’s right, Andrew Cuomo, it was yours. You did a terrible job. Why does that mean you should stay in a race all the way through November?

Sure, Zohran Mamdani is a walking disaster waiting to happen; but Cuomo is a proven disaster that already happened. I would say that Cuomo’s campaign is on life support, but the former governor would just send it to a nursing home while infected with Covid. He’s groping for answers, much like he used to grope state troopers. It’s time to close the book on Cuomo’s mayoral dreams, and he shouldn’t get paid $5.1 million for this one.

“For the next few months, it’s my responsibility to earn your vote,” Cuomo bellows. But you already had that responsibility, and you blew it. You lost to the pro-intifada Communist, by a lot. If the mission for sane New Yorkers is to find a way to beat Zohran Mamdani, why should they entrust all their hopes in the one guy who just lost to Mamdani?

Mamdani has some major advantages heading into November, and one of them is that Cuomo, incumbent independent Eric Adams, and Republican Curtis Sliwa are the three men least likely to ever voluntarily withdraw from the race to help one of the other two.