Candidates came out swinging at New York City’s final mayoral debate Wednesday night, with all three candidates launching personal attacks and spotlighting each other’s hottest controversies.

When a radio host suggested that Zohran Mamdani would celebrate another Sept. 11-style attack, Andrew Cuomo chuckled.

Cuomo’s successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, also piled on, calling the comment “fear-mongering, hate speech, and islamophobia,” in a post to X.

Polling places open Saturday for the start of in-person voting for two of the year’s most closely watched elections: The New York City mayor’s race and the contest to pick New Jersey’s next governor.

New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) leads Republican Jack Ciattarelli by 5 points in the state’s gubernatorial race, according to a Rutgers University-Eagleton poll released Thursday.