NEW YORK (WABC) -- Election Day is less than a month away and the candidates are working hard to get their message out to voters as the clock ticks closer to November 4.
In New York City, all eyes are on the race for mayor as frontrunner and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa are making campaign appearances and headlines regularly.
Meanwhile, the race for the governor of New Jersey is heating up after a recent poll put Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli in a tie.
Check back for daily live updates on the candidates and headlines leading up to election day.
Back from Albania, Mayor Eric Adams declined to say on Friday whether he will endorse a successor.
"When I make the determination, I will," he said. "This race is going to continue to move forward and we are going to be excited. I just want the best for my city, the city that I love in a real way."
"There is a lot of love in the city for what I have done and what I continue to do," he added.
The Jack Ciattarelli campaign announced Thursday that it plans to sue Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill personally, because of claims she made during a fiery exchange in the middle of Wednesday night's gubernatorial debate.
One of the most contentious moments came when Sherrill, a four-term congresswoman elected during Trump's first midterm to a longtime GOP-held seat, accused Ciattarelli, running for governor for the third time, of profiting off the opioid crisis, leading to deaths.
"You're trying to divert from the fact you killed tens of thousands of people by printing your misinformation, your propaganda," she said during the debate.
A campaign strategist who works with the Ciattarelli campaign said the statement made by Sherrill was a "defamatory act" and "accusing a political opponent of mass murder in a televised debate crosses the line."
Ciattarelli's campaign said they expect the lawsuit to be formally filed early next week in court.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
A new Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday afternoon shows that Andrew Cuomo has made gains since Eric Adams dropped out of the race, but Zohran Mamdani is still up by double digits.
The poll found a three-way race shows 46% of likely voters support Mamdani, 33% support Cuomo, and 15% support Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
This compares to Quinnipiac University's New York City poll on September 10 when it was a 4-way race with Mamdani receiving 45% support, Cuomo receiving 23% support, Sliwa receiving 15% support, and Adams receiving 12% support.
Andrew Cuomo was awarded $2,329,463 in matching funds from the Campaign Finance board this morning
Sliwa is getting $1,158,547.
And Mamdani is getting $1,029,721, although he has already raised enough to reach the spending cap.
The campaign finance board once again denied matching funds to Mayor Adams, who has suspended his campaign, as it continues to investigate his fundraising in the 2021 mayor's race.
The board will award its final matching funds on Oct. 30, the last meeting before the election.
