Andrew Cuomo believes Monday’s mass shooting in Midtown Manhattan will bring public safety to the forefront of this year’s mayoral race — and is already citing the tragedy in painting Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani as someone who would be ill-equipped to oversee the NYPD.

Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist leading the race for New York mayor, tried to distance himself from past criticism of the NYPD, two days after a mass shooting at a midtown office building left five people dead,