Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee, shot back at rival Andrew Cuomo during an interview with NY1 Thursday, questioning the former governor's interest to "help working people."

“What we see from the governor in this moment is the fact that he’s repulsed by an agenda to actually help working people,” Mamdani told political anchor Errol Louis on "Inside City Hall." “He said time and again he was going to win, and he couldn’t get that done.”

Cuomo on Monday told NY1 that he was “repulsed” by Mamdani’s “three-word solutions.”

The Queens assemblyman, who bested Cuomo by 12 points in the June Democratic primary, said he only proposes ideas he believes could actually work.

“I’m making promises that I intend to keep, and I make them because I believe in our ability to deliver on them,” he said.

Mamdani has proposed a rent freeze for rent-stabilized units, free buses and universal childcare.

Cuomo is running as an independent in the general election, along with incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and attorney Jim Walden, with Curtis Sliwa filling the Republican nomination.

When asked where he stands on the phrase “globalize the intifada,” Mamdani said the distance between what some intend and what others hear is “a bridge that is too far,” and it is why he now discourages its use.

“I’ve thought about this quite a lot. For some New Yorkers, it’s a phrase that refers to civil disobedience and protest and calls to end the occupation of Palestinian land,” he said. “I was sitting with a rabbi not too long ago who told me the same phrase is heard very differently by her and it’s heard as a reference to bus bombings in Haifa, restaurant attacks in Jerusalem and it engenders a fear in her and in others of the possibility of those very attacks coming home here in New York City.”

Mamdani said his movement is one for justice and equality and would bridge the gap between all New Yorkers by focusing on what has caused so much anguish in this moment.

“What offends so many in our city — this horror is one that is subsidized by our country,” he said. “I heard not just about a desire for cheaper groceries and a cost-of-living that was easier to navigate, but also for an end to our tax dollars going to the killing of children,” Mamdani said of concerns shared with him over the Israel-Hamas War.

Mamdani said President Donald Trump has exploited that despair and heightened it through his policies. He also discussed his recent visit to the nation’s capital and how his campaign has started a discourse on a potential strategy shift for the Democrats. He said much of it has to do with engaging young people.

“We managed to register 30,000 new voters in the last 10 days,” he said. “So much of the work of protecting our democracy is not just fighting back against authoritarianism, it’s increasing our faith in its ability to deliver on the needs of working people.”

Mamdani also shared his stance on city-specific issues, such as mayoral control of schools and the NYPD, saying he would continue to appoint the schools chancellor and sustain the current head count of the police department.

“What I have heard from rank-and-file police officers, as well as police officers higher up, is a frustration with how we have asked the police department to respond to nearly every failure of the social safety net. We have tasked officers who signed up to take on serious crimes to instead respond to 200,000 mental health calls per year,” he said.

Mamdani said he is considering retaining Commissioner Jessica Tisch since crime is dropping, and for her role in helping uproot corruption, which he says is a result of Mayor Eric Adams’ leadership.

Looking ahead to November’s general election, Mamdani says he hopes to build on what his campaign has achieved.

“We’re going to see a door-knocking operation that doesn’t just rival what we did but surpass it.”