Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told his campaign donors he's not going anywhere, the New York Post reported.
"The campaign may be over, but our work is not. I'm not going anywhere," Cuomo said in a letter to people who donated to his failed New York City mayoral bid.
"I will continue to stand up against hate in all its forms, to speak out against antisemitism, to fight for public safety and opportunity, and to champion unity when division seems easier. That's who I am. And that's who we are together."
Cuomo lost to Democrat Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and 34-year-old state Assembly member, by 9 points.
Cuomo ran as an independent after losing the primary to Mamdani despite being heavily favored to win.
Earlier this week he blamed his loss on Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, telling fellow former Gov. David Paterson on a WABC radio show that he "would have won" if Sliwa had dropped out.
He said Sliwa's "7 points were an embarrassment and really diminished the Republican Party" and that he "would have gotten that 7 and had been about a point from Zohran Mamdani and it would have changed the dynamics" of the race.
Cuomo also called Sliwa's campaign "a clown show."
An open letter released by Cuomo's team Monday to Democrats fueled speculation about Cuomo's national ambitions.
"Democrats must redefine themselves with conviction and action. Americans will not elect a socialist, anti-police, divisive party," Cuomo wrote in a letter titled, "Democrats' Dilemma: A Philosophical Schizophrenia."
"It is still the economy, stupid, but how do you improve it — not with rhetoric, but with results?" he wrote.
He also said the Democratic Socialists of America platform "only deepens the problem, offering aspiration, not realism."
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