The mayoral candidates faced off Sunday against not just their rivals, but the elements.

With the start of early voting looming on June 12 — and more and more voters paying attention — some renewed their promises to reverse the rise of hate crimes in the city.

“As a Jewish person in New York, I know what it feels like when my community is targeted by hate," City Comptroller Scott Stringer said. "And that’s why I’ve stood with all communities all my life to combat hate in every way.”

What You Need To Know

  • Stringer unveiled plan to reduce role of police in tackling hate crimes

  • Adams gathered Asian-American supporters at large Queens rally

  • Andrew Yang visited Sikh houses of worship in Queens
  • Candidates also used their Sunday mornings to speak to large church congregations

Stringer was in lower Manhattan to unveil a plan that included shifting resources from the NYPD to community groups in hate crimes hotspots.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was in Flushing to rally a large and enthusiastic crowd of Asian-American backers who repeatedly chanted: “Mayor, mayor, mayor!”

Adams told them, “We will stamp out anti-Asian violence. We will not allow that in our city. As a Black man, I know firsthand what it is to live under bigotry and racism and violence.”

He was joined by endorsers Rep. Tom Suozzi, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and City Council Member Peter Koo.

Andrew Yang, backed by Council Member Margaret Chin as well as Rep. Grace Meng and State Sen. John Liu, has spoken in deeply personal terms about anti-Asian bias.

He visited Sunday with Sikh New Yorkers in Richmond Hill.

“Asian Americans are 15% of the New York City population," Yang said at one gurdwara. "Our community organizations receive only 1.5% of the city budge dedicated to those organizations, which I don’t think is right.”

Yang and others also made stops at churches to campaign from the pulpit.

Former Citigroup executive Ray McGuire told Bethel Gospel Tabernacle in Jamaica, “I’m not interested in the crumbs. Matter of fact, I’m not interested in the cake. I’m interested in us owning the bakeries.”

Former U.S. Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan spoke in Spanish at Iglesia Aliento de Vida in Corona, in part about his father, who was raised in Peru: “He created a good life for my family. In New York, every immigrant deserves this opportunity.”

Former MSNBC legal analyst Maya Wiley was at St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

“We have to keep public housing public," she said. "It is one of the things that called me into this race is that — COVID’s a crisis, but we had an affordability crisis before COVID.”

Like Adams, Wiley stumped later Sunday with surrogates in government, door-knocking in Flatbush with Rep. Yvette Clarke and doling out margaritas in Astoria with State Sen. Mike Gianaris.