Catherine Connolly has still failed to answer the question of who organised her 2018 trip to Syria. She rehashed the same lines about it being a "fact-finding" mission. But she has still not said who put her in touch with Fares Shehabi - someone who was named on EU sanctions as funding the Assad regime, who she did not simply bump into but sat in meeting rooms and was shown around Aleppo by.
Since Mayor Eric Adams ended his reelection campaign in September, due to his lack of popularity and growing list of scandals, the remaining candidates are: Zohran Mamdani (D), Curtis Sliwa (R), and Andrew Cuomo (I), who notably lost to Mamdani in the Democratic primary but unfortunately refuses to take no for an answer. Something Sliwa hilariously pointed out during the debate.