Rita explores the high-stakes New York City mayoral race, warning that the clock is ticking before the crucial debate, which may be the last chance to prevent Zorhan Mamdani from becoming mayor of the Big Apple. Mamdani is labeled by critics as a "radical politician" and a "terrorist sympathizer" who poses a "clear and present danger" to New York and America. Rita covers the alarm bells being raised over his stance on Israel—using "code words" like "genocide" and "apartheid"—and concerns that he supports defunding, disarming, and disbanding the police, and abolishing jails. With Mamdani ahead in the polls, Rita and her callers discuss whether rivals Curtis Sliwa and Andrew Cuomo can put aside their egos, consolidate the anti-Mamdani vote, and deliver a "verbal knockout" in the debate.

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