Exclusive | NYC mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer takes shot at frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, claims his specialty is defeating ex-governors

Scott Stringer says he has a very particular set of skills: taking down ex-governors.The mayoral hopeful pitched himself as the sole candidate who can dethrone powerhouse frontrunner Andrew Cuomo — since he’s defeated a former governor once before.“This is my specialty, I save people from former governors,” the former city comptroller assured The Post editorial board during a sit-down Wednesday.“You just got to let me be me,” Stringer said optimistically.The former state Assemblyman has been lagging in the polls, but he remained hopeful during the one-hour interview that his campaign would finally get off the ground in the coming weeks — with just three months to go until the heated Democratic primary.Stringer, who was the first Dem candidate to announce a challenge to Mayor Eric Adams early last year, compared the tough, crowded race to his first campaign for city comptroller.

The then-Manhattan borough president kneecapped ex-governor Eliot Spitzer’s bid to return to public life in 2013.Spitzer had resigned in disgrace five years prior amid a prostitution scandal.The June 24 Democratic mayoral primary, however, promises to be a much stiffer race, with 10 people vying for the nomination and Cuomo dominating the field even before he officially entered the race March 1.“We have a crisis of leadership, a crisis of management and it didn’t start with Eric Adams, it started with (his predecessor) Bill de Blasio and I know that because my job as comptroller was to hold him accountable,” Stringer said.He then took a shot as his successor, current City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is also running in the Democratic mayoral primary, calling him “Brad Pander.” Stringer said if he’d still been comptroller over the last three years instead of Lander, “I would argue that Eric Adams would not be in the trouble he’s in today.”Adams, Lander, Cuomo, Democratic Socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani and even state Sen.

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