With primary day approaching, Rep. Jerry Nadler tried to maintain his momentum Saturday in the hard-fought contest for Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District — while his opponents tried to turn the tide.

Nadler is pitted against Rep. Carolyn Maloney, including attorney Suraj Patel, in the newly redrawn district, which blends together their former districts on Manhattan’s West and East sides.

Nadler has emerged as the perceived frontrunner in recent days, thanks largely to endorsements from the New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

On Saturday, Nadler rallied on the Upper West Side alongside supporters and two female elected officials, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal and Councilwoman Gale Brewer.

The female presence served as a counterpoint to Maloney, who’s framed herself as a champion of women’s rights going up against an old boy’s network.

Maloney has also frequently touted her work securing funding for the Second Avenue subway.

“Jerry’s our feminist,” Rosenthal said. “Jerry’s our transportation specialist.”

Campaigning on the Upper East Side, Maloney told NY1 she believed the election would have a focus on the Supreme Court, thanks to recent decisions on abortion rights, gun safety laws and the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions.

Maloney said a “dangerous and extreme” Supreme Court “has bulldozed women’s rights to the ground. I am absolutely horrified that my two daughters have fewer protections for themselves than what I had at their age.”

“During this critical time when we’re fighting for women’s rights, I feel that it would be most appropriate that women be in the room. Not boxed out of the room,” she continued.

Meanwhile, third candidate Patel appeared to win the vote of a very prominent New Yorker, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A Patel staffer recently took video of Bloomberg as he emerged from a polling place. While Bloomberg is almost entirely off-camera in the video, he can be heard telling the staffer he voted for Patel.

A spokesman wouldn’t confirm or deny Bloomberg’s vote.

Patel and a pair of staffers jogged about three miles through the district and stopped at three early voting sites and talked to voters along the way.

“Today we are running to the polls. We want people to vote with the same urgency that this city and this country needs,” Patel said.

It aligns with Patel’s central campaign theme, that he’ll bring to the job a youthful energy that’s lacking in his two leading opponents, each of whom has spent 30 years in Congress.

“We’re just showing that I’m doing what regular New Yorkers do every day,” he said. “I haven’t been in office for 30 years or 40 years. I don’t have a staff that surrounds me and puts me in a bubble.”