AOC endorses Mamdani for NYC Mayor

Kiss of death.

Mamdani stood out at last night's mayoral debate which probably will get him lots of name recognition. Nobody didn't know him last month.

[quote]Nobody didn't know him last month.

I'm not not oh dearing you, r2.

He will destroy this city. A thousand Cuomos before Mamdani

Is it wrong to want Mamdani inside you, quite deeply?

I was surprised to hear that Ramos was endorsing Cuomo. Was anyone expecting that?

[quote]this guy who has nothing but contempt for Israel?

How has he demonstrated that contempt? Or is that an assumption you're making because he's muslim?

Her endorsement should be about as helpful to him as it was to Jamaal Bowman.

Enough of the "Democratic" Socialists using our party as a skin suit to sell their awful ideas and their malignant, anti-Western ideology.

Mamdani is not a good fit for NYC. Trump would wipe his ass and pass it on to JD to sniff

Socialism was invented in Germany, dear

Why do people think an AOC endorsement is a good thing?

No DSA candidate who has literally endorsed "Socializing businesses" and "dismantling the police" is going to be winning shit. I'm NOT including him in my ranked voting.

I find the DSA crowd to be completely jejune and not living in the reality of a two-party system, plus they're all a bunch of proud anti-Semites.

He's NOT a Democrat!

He thinks he's quite clever like his idol Bernie "Do Nothing" Sanders!

What did he say that was anti-Semitic? Right, nothing.

He is openly against Israel while declaring he is against religious states, while supporting Muslim autocracies like the one he had his wedding in weeks ago.

Yawn.

Endorsements sadly do not seem to do much anymore for anyone, unless they come from Trump.

I'll never vote for a muslim or a socialist.

[quote] He is openly against Israel

Any link R15, let’s see what he actually said about it.

Also I didn’t realize going to Dubai is anti semitic. Thank god for DL, I wouldn’t have known that otherwise.

NYC's stance on Israel is the most pressing matter facing the city today. I'm sure that will determine the election's outcome.

AOC is not a city-wide political rainmaker.

Asking mayoral candidates about Israel in a city where many demonstrations have taken place as well as home to a large Jewish population is more than reasonable. I found it refreshing that there were candid and varied replies, which is good for everyone, good for civics, and good for Democracy in general.

Commercials are running in NYC with Mamdani's own words talking about raising taxes and defunding the police. Catnip to AOC, no wonder she endorsed him. Defunding the police has proven to be a thumbs down for the voting public. I hope US Rep Ritchie Torres is more of a kingmaker than AOC; he endorsed Cuomo early on.

I'd ask Mamdani, "What does your desire to 'defund the police' look like on day one of your mayoralty? How are you planning on implementing this and dealing with crime? What about the union contracts?"

I'm sure the DSA gibberish out of his mouth would be priceless. I understand how upper middle class white people get starry-eyed with their DSA attraction, but what's everyone else's on ramp?

Mamdani is a Muslim. Please, no more of these Muslims. They are gravitating towards Democratic socialists because that is a ticket to power. Sheeple whites who are desperate to show that they are all for DEI want to vote for such Muslims, but it will be the downfall for America, the West, and democracies. These Muslims do not want to call out the treatment of minorities in Muslim majority countries, no gay rights, etc, but pretend that they are for all those in America. I am hoping Sheeple whites have enough sense to see through this rather than feel good that they are part of the resistance. Already lot of sheeple white judges think they are part of the resistance and feel very good about themselves.

[quote]Mamdani is a Muslim. Please, no more of these Muslims.

Not that you're prejudiced, or anything.

Yes, r26, your purity is refreshing of course, but do look the fuck around you and around the planet and describe to us all the evidence of the multicultural benefits of Muslim led societies fueled this "Religion of Peace".

I'll wait.

R26 I am prejudiced. Why should I not be? I fear for our rights under Muslims. Show me which Muslim country is free and accepting of gay people? I recently had a ride share guy who is a Muslim and he said a lot of Muslims hate gay people. So don't try to guilt me into saying I am not prejudiced. The vast majority of Muslim mean to harm gays. I

[quote] I recently had a ride share guy who is a Muslim and he said a lot of Muslims hate gay people

Girl get a grip.

That CUNT AOC also endorsed scaring off Amazon from bringing 25,000 high paying jobs to NYC.

You know what. Find another moderate/old school white republican adjacent man. That's what everyone in NYC wants, but won't say out loud. Or just bring back Bloomberg. All the New Yorkers who bitched about the Disneyfication and Billionarization of NYC were just talking nonsense. They want Disney. They want one percenters. They want stop and frisk.

It doesn't make you a bad person to want the homeless rounded up and shipped off to Jersey.

Would you be in favor of an evangelical Christian running NYC R26?

Are you one of those people who shrieks about the US becoming the Handmaid’s Tale under Trump, and then rolls out the red carpet for a religion that forces women to cover themselves from head to toe under threat of beatings or worse?

R31, no, NYC doesn't want a Republican

Ask the average person in NYC how they feel about Trump. They loath him

Why the fuck do his Israel views even matter? A mayor isn't shaping foreign policy

R32 probably loves people like this while screaming about Muslims

R30 how many small businesses have shut down because of allowing corporations like Amazon to do whatever they want with no controls?

I’m also not ranking him due to his stance on Israel. We can split hairs over being anti-Semitic vs anti-Israel (which he clearly is—if you don’t think so, you can Google) but he’s been vocal about it. I agree with the commenter above who joked that what’s happening in Israel is a major issue facing the city right now. Exactly. I want a mayor who is going to focus on local issues—the actual job of a mayor—not use his role to inject the city into international politics or waste time and resources to have NYC divest from Israel or other performative bullshit. On top of that, NY is home to one of the largest Jewish populations in the world and there’s a huge uptick in anti-semitism. As mayor, his job is to keep all New Yorkers safe and I have zero confidence he will do that for Jewish New Yorkers.

R32, I don't want anyone who bases their politics on their faith in positions of power.

And I don't think brown people who base their politics on their faith are any different to white people who base their politics on their faith.

I'm old enough to remember when "progressive" Medhi Hasan was begging the Daily Mail for a job because he shared the DM's values on "family values" like gay rights and abortion.

Log Cabin Republicans will never vote for a Muslim but they love the people who wanted a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage

Ilhan Omar is a Muslim and she has voted with us, she supports gay marriage. Not all Muslims believe the same thing, just like not all Christians believe the same thing

R36, you think a guy who harasses women is going to keep New York safe? Cuomo can't even keep women safe

Medhi Hasan

Good Lord!

Zohran doesn’t just hate Jews. He hates Hindus too!

[quote]Log Cabin Republicans will never vote for a Muslim but they love the people who wanted a Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriage Ilhan Omar is a Muslim and she has voted with us, she supports gay marriage. Not all Muslims believe the same thing, just like not all Christians believe the same thing

NEITHER

I want NEITHER in positions of power

[quote] [R36], you think a guy who harasses women is going to keep New York safe? Cuomo can't even keep women safe.

I didn’t say I wanted Cuomo either.

Mamdani is the sexiest by far, but also the worst for NYC. He has the woke eating out of the palm of his hand, which is not surprising. Cuomo will probably win and there will be things he does which piss off the woke and far left, but also things which will be beneficial to all of us here waiting for serious police/judicial action against the rise in crime. Also, when Mayor Adams tells you crime is down everywhere, only believe that he has found a way to manipulate data points.

R44 what rise in crime?

Crown Jewish United tonight endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani must be so shocked it didn't go to him. So many Jewish voters will sigh in relief when Mamdani is out.

OP, we in the "flyover states" really don't care who wins the mayor's race. We do hope, however, that AOC does not become the presidential nominee.

[quote]Mamdani is the sexiest by far, but also the worst for NYC. He has the woke eating out of the palm of his hand, which is not surprising. Cuomo will probably win...

...and just like 2016 and 2024 the DSA crowd will make a lot of noise, act so high and mighty and then NOT SUPPORT the Democratic candidate! Just wait.

I mean, who the fuck are they fooling?

Wait so Muslims want to support super-lefties now? Wasn't it just less than a year ago that Trump ran away with the Muslim vote in MI because of Biden's support of Israel?

Oh and notice that Dems support of Israel cuts no ice with the Israel-loonies.

Ask him about the Muslim dog walking ban in Iran.

Mamdani is a mirror to AOC's views.

Why should a guy from Astoria have to answer questions about dogwalking in Iran? Can you hear yourself?

Maybe because that guy from Astoria is obsessed with injecting the Middle East into everything? He co-founded a pro-Palestinian group as a student, has talked about boycotting and defunding a NYC hospital that partners with an Israeli University, and about arresting Netanyahu if he sets foot in NYC. Sounds just like the type of issues that New Yorkers really need their mayor on top of.

R53 three things over 15 years? Is that really “injecting the Middle East into everything?” The other candidates are all frothing at the mouth with their Israel worship. Is that different?

Yes, because their "frothing at the mouth" is parroting talking points that are getting people shot in the head.

You do realize that Iran and Israel are different places?

Mamdani is not a good fit for NYC mayor. He would not be able to manage the vast bureaucracy with his woke ways. The NYPD, FDNY, and Sanitation would have zero respect for his policies. The only agency that would be ok would be DSS when he ups all social service give aways which will invite more people to move here and sign up for all sorts of benefits. He has said he plans to raise taxes to give away more.

AOC endorsing him is a net positive, but not a huge one.

Mamdani will not be elected Mayor of NYC.

Do people know the Mira Nair the film director is his mother? You know he grew up privileged and never had to work a day in his life. He has promised to "Freeze the rent" a thing he never had to ever deal with. Aside from that, can you see all the jews in NYC voting for a Muslim? Just saying, btw I think he's handsome too but probably homophobic.

Mamdani is a little too "Free Palestine" for me.

Hard pass.

AOC is consistently underwhelming and naive

A little too Muslim for me. He wants a nanny government. Couldn’t balance a check if his life depended on it. He was born in 1991. No life experience. NYC can’t survive another progressive administration.

Getting closer.

[quote] A survey conducted by Data for Progress on behalf of a super PAC for Mamdani found Cuomo up by just two points, while a poll from the ex-governor’s camp showed Cuomo with a 12-point lead.

If Mira Nair is his mother, he’s probably not homophobic. Or at the very least he would love lesbians.

[Quote] this guy who has nothing but contempt for Israel?

Look at how deeply OP cares about NYC — so much discussion of issues of central importance to the lives of New Yorkers.

It's funny that someone thinks having directed "Mississippi Masala" in 1991 leaves you set for life.

It’s funny that someone thinks having lied about being a brilliant businessman on a reality show leaves you set for life.

R62- She's consistently STUPID

especially with her one life's accomplishment- Making sure Amazon did not open one of it's headquarters in NYC.

A gay Jewish friend is going to vote for this clown. Yes, my friend is an old hippie progressive who really is clueless about many things, or chooses not to see them because the truth is very disruptive to his opinion and self-image.

This muslim clown also wants to create city owned supermarkets just like the ones in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela and all the other failed marxist states.

I guess it doesn't matter to R69 that Amazon reneged on its promise to Arlington, VA, who spent tons of taxpayer money to make way for jobs that never came?

What are you talking about, R71?

[quote] A survey conducted by Data for Progress

Which means a bullshit far-Left poll.

Yes, r70, Jews can be their own worst enemies. They pushed that progressive claptrap in universities for decades only to have it blow up in their faces by their students who deem them white and the oppressor. I warned my Jewish family members about this years ago but they thought I was crazy. Guess who’s all shocked and outraged now. It ain’t me. Voting for someone who hates you has consequences. Who knew?

Anyone remember when AOC announced that Democrats who voted moderate were going on a list? lol. How McCarthy.

Bloomberg endorsed Cuomo.

R69 and the neighborhood is better for it. More housing. The area is thriving.

Cuomo is a poor choice.

Through no help from her, R77.

Then which is—she hurt the area by her actions or she didn’t hurt the area. Pick a lane

[quote]Anyone remember when AOC announced that Democrats who voted moderate were going on a list?

Remember who her first target was? Hakeem Jeffries! You know that guy who is going to be the next Speaker of the House who got 1.75 votes in his nearby district for every 1 vote AOC got in hers that year!

I have zero idea what AOC thinks a moderate is. She has voted against her own caucus (is she even a Democrat these days?) and with the GOP surprisingly often. People who don't vote and voters who don't live in her district (digital Yasss Queens) are enamored with her.

Bloomberg just endorsed Andrew Cuomo. Bloomberg knows all about Cuomo and his prior wrongdoings but still thinks he is best to lead NYC. Mandani and AOC can try to spin this one, but it is a strong endorsement from a 3-time mayor who did a great job and left NYC much better off than DeBlasio (woke) and Eric Adams (incompetent).

AOC has endorsed guy who doesn't believe Israel should be a country. How's that vote gonna work for a city with 2 million Jews?

AOC is why the Dems will continue to lose nationally when it matters. The Dems will take back the House but in spite of themselves, not because they offer a vision that people want.

Cuomo abuses female employees. I would never vote for him. He's a disgusting creep but not only that, he will kowtow to Trump just like Adams. Wasn't Adams bad enough?

[quote]Is it wrong to want Mamdani inside you, quite deeply? —I Still Wouldn't Vote For Him, Though

Then why on earth would I fuck you?

It's hilarious to see some moderates falling over Mamdani for his alleged YIMBY. Come on--he wants to freeze rents. He is NOT a yimby despite what he is claiming.

*alleged YIMBY plans.

Will Mamdani's the new "socialized" grocery stores be paying the check-out employees union wages or will we all get assigned shifts kibbutz style (no extra credit for any Ziono-fascist employees)?

Whats so wrong with publicly owned grocery stores? As an additional option to privately owned ones. He’s not saying he would replace existing stores right?

This

R91 nothing in that article is very persuasive tbh. It’s very clearly opinion based. Comparing running grocery stores to apartments is a stupid comparison.

I mean look at the other articles he’s published….”New York could soon regret legalizing marijuana” lol, and a bunch of articles fawning over or defending Trump, or downplaying Trump’s problems. Sorry if I don’t take him seriously R91. You probably shouldn’t either.

Mamdani will be a big upset if he wins. I just don't see it happening. AOC is not a kingmaker; she is more of an out of touch woke liberal trying to grab attention. Not sure if she has ever gotten any signature legislation passed in Congress, but she has been there for some time, and it feels like she is just there for the headlines and soundbites.

Mamdani is ahead of Cuomo in the most recent polling. WOW. AOC is a genius and kingmaker.

Now I know who not to vote for.

R95: The only polls showing him in the lead are paid for by Zohran Mamdani Inc.

[quote]Whats so wrong with publicly owned grocery stores?

Why should supermarkets who pay high rents and employ many local workers be for ed to compete with the city who won't be paying high rent or maybe none at all? Will the gub'mint run grocery stores be getting special deals by the companies selling the stores their products? Will the stores take SNAP and WIC? It is a highly infeasible idea in the short run.

More DSA fantasyland. Does Mamdani even have any experience achieving any of this?

[quote] Why should supermarkets who pay high rents and employ many local workers be for ed to compete with the city who won't be paying high rent or maybe none at all?

How would they not be paying rent R98? Who are they leasing space from for free? The city already leases property from commercial landlords, link below.

[quote] Will the gub'mint run grocery stores be getting special deals by the companies selling the stores their products?

Thats how wholesale works? All larger stores. I mean so do all retailers who sell products that they don’t make themselves. This is a crazy question lol.

[quote] Will the stores take SNAP and WIC?

I mean I would think so right?

[quote] It is a highly infeasible idea in the short run.

Forgive me if I don’t take you seriously because of (see above).

[quote] Does Mamdani even have any experience achieving any of this?

Are you asking if he has previously achieved his mayoral proposals for the city of New York before he has been mayor of New York?

[quote] AOC has endorsed guy who doesn't believe Israel should be a country. How's that vote gonna work for a city with 2 million Jews?

Nice antisemitic trope that all Jews pledge allegiance to Israel.

The more left Democrats go, the more Republicans win.

Like Cuomo, Mamdani is a nepo baby!

The poll showing Mamdani ahead is crap, R95.

It was conducted by Mamdani’s ally Justin Brennan for his campaign, it’s not ranked choice, has a small sample size, and 60% of the responses were by text message.

Another poll from yesterday (which was ranked choice with more than double the number of respondents) shows Cuomo coming out 12 points ahead in the final round, which is in line with other recent polling. The race hasn’t shifted that much, despite the astroturfed “momentum” that Mamdani and his DSA operatives are trying to conjure up.

I don’t think that Mamdani will win, but throwing a scare in Cuomo is good. Make that jackass work for it.

R103 that same group in mid May had Cuomo up 22 points. So to say the race hasn’t shifted “that much” isn’t true. I guess it will come down to the debate :) the momentum is going one way, fingers crossed there’s time for it to get over the line.

While I like many of the things Mamdani believes in / would like to accomplish, and he is undeniably charismatic, I have zero faith that he is a skillful enough politician or manager to actually achieve any of them - he’s basically sexy Bill de Blasio.

Cuomo is a loathsome narcissist but he does know how to get shit accomplished & built. I don’t want to fuck the mayor, I just want a reasonably well run city.

Everyone I know is voting for Cuomo. At least that's what they told me! who knows what they will do when they are in the polling booth.

I don't believe Andy abused any female employee...

The poll showing Mamdani ahead didn't include Staten Island.

I want Zohran to slap me with his thick meat

I saw the debate and got the impression that Mamdani is not for the State of Israel to exist. I am not Jewish and don't feel Mamdani is an advocate for the Jewish state. This will be his Achilles heel. For many others, commercials with his own voice stating he will raise taxes is not a winning slogan.

[quote]He's a disgusting creep but not only that, he will kowtow to Trump just like Adams. Wasn't Adams bad enough?

For that reason, I don't know why anyone would entertain the idea of bringing this guy back into the spotlight and in power in any way, shape or form.

It doesn't matter if you want to rank Mamdani or any other candidate, Cuomo is absolutely not it.

I have never heard of this Mamdani, what does he do? At least Cuomo is experienced and previously handled the State so managing the city should be OK for him...

[quote] I saw the debate and got the impression that Mamdani is not for the State of Israel to exist. I am not Jewish and don't feel Mamdani is an advocate for the Jewish state.

lol why does this even matter? Totally bizarre. Why would the mayor of NYC have to advocate for a foreign ethnostate? Especially considering how it’s behaving currently.

R113, he's a New York State Assemblyman, he represents a district in Queens. A NYC mayor does have to have to be able to deal with foreign politicians. Yes, traditionally the mayor is strongly pro-Israel, but the whole Columbia saga (the mass arrests of protesters, the caving to Trump) have cast a pall over the whole issue. Cuomo strength and liability is that he's just business as usual. That is likely to prevail this time, but the income inequality and housing issues that Mamdini is raising are not going to go away.

[quote]At least Cuomo is experienced and previously handled the State

Yeah, shittily. He's Republican-lite and killed a bunch of people's grandmothers during COVID. Plus he tried to fingerbang every broad within a ten meter radius. I'm so fucking tired of New York politicians being the same batch of corporate sellout shit stains who worship at the altar of Israel. WE NEED CHANGE

100% agree with R114.

People on DL, presumably gays, defending Muslims and calling people racist for calling out their human rights record and intolerance toward western culture is some real crazy work.

R118 all major religions have inherent problems with gays. Wtf does “defending Muslims” mean in this context? Nobody here is saying Islam based homophobia is a good thing. Agreeing with the political policies of a person who happens to be Muslim does not mean anyone is agreeing with homophobia. You’re so fucking stupid lol. I have friends that are Christian, Jewish, Muslim etc. hardly any of them are practicing, and zero of them are homophobic. This is the real world not some right wing tabloid hallucination you live in.

This race feels like Di Blasio 2.0. Back then, every young progressive was telling me how Bill was the second coming. How his vision was going to change the city. How Chris Quinn was a secret Republican. Which letter to his election and probably the worst mayor in the past 50 years.

I’m not a Cuomo fan. Can’t even believe he’s a leading candidate. But I’ve seen this movie before.

ZM is extremely pro gay, fuck off with that Islamophobic bullshit

[quote]the worst mayor in the past 50 years.

Eric Adams would like a word

[quote]Do people know the Mira Nair the film director is his mother?

OMG his mother made that movie with Hilary Swanks as the lady with the plane!

But how can Mamdani run for mayor when he is a coloniser? His mother is Indian and his father was an Indian coloniser in Uganda.

No argument from me, R122. Adams is just as bad, but for me it’s Di Blasio who put this city on a path toward decline. I can’t think of one area that is better than it was a decade ago.

Bloomberg was the most effective mayor of NYC, but it's his vision of the city as a playground of the rich that we are living in now.

Zohran doesn't have DiBlasio's limp dick syndrome though. Look at this video of him confronting one of Trump's goons - he's a fighter

R123: Double nepo.

Mamdani has been quoted in the past, quite often, to defund the police. This is political poison to most NYers who still have issues with public safety. it was dumb then and really scary now

Abolish the police. Scum fuckers and any gay person defending them is an Uncle Tom

The debate tonight is not going well for Cuomo. All of the other candidates are happy to point out that THEY were not forced to resign over multiple sexual assault claims, nor have they killed senior citizens by mismanaging a health crisis.

Cuomo is the Dem version of Trump. The scandals won't be enough. Somebody not too woke with real experience to lead the biggest city in the world needs to step forward. Cuomo has it and will probably win.

Is there any way on earth that Adams wins re-election?

The soon to start war between Israel and Iran will put pressure on Mamdani to say something supportive for Israel or risk losing even the most liberal Jewish voters who might have voted for him.

R129 sets people on the subway on fire.

[quote] Somebody not too woke with real experience to lead the biggest city in the world

Tokyo is the biggest city in the world. TF?

NYC is the 52nd largest city in the world.

greatest* city in the world.

The total private wealth held by NYC residents is estimated at nearly $3 trillion, surpassing the GDP of major countries like Canada and Italy. As of 2025, no city in the world has more overall private wealth than New York City. Mamdani is not qualified to lead a city of such financial importance.

And Cuomo is?

soon to be Mayor elect Cuomo to the world!

The fear the real estate men have is this:

1. Zohran actually wins the primary. Then the general will be Zohran vs. Adams (who will run as an independent) vs. Cuomo (who will also run as an independent) vs. whatever ghoul the Repubs come up with. Adams, Cuomo and Ghoul split the not-liberal vote and Zohran wins.

2. Cuomo wins the primary. Then the general will be Cuomo vs. Adams vs. Republican vs. Zohran on the Working Families Party line.

They are scared.

Mamdani winning the primary would provide the surest path to reelection for the independent-running Eric Adams.

Adams isn't getting re-elected. If Zohran wins the primary, Cuomo has said he's running as an independent.

Let's have Cuomo, Mamdani, and Adams all go on NY1 and drop trou and whoever has the nicest pinga gets the vote. Rank choice of course is allowed. Mamdani will have it in the bag so to speak.

R142, I don't think even Adams thinks that he has a chance of being re-elected.

Who has endorsed Adams? Nobody!

[quote] I don't think even Adams thinks that he has a chance of being re-elected.

The Times has an article about how, in an otherwise very quiet reelection campaign, Adams has made overtures with the Orthodox Jewish community in an effort to stop Cuomo from winning, hoping Mamdani comes out on top.

I just got Cuomo's anti-Zohran mailer and it is not subtle.

Will NYC ever have a First Lady again? Chirlaine I miss you gurl.

R149, sorry, we’re committed to post-heteronormative government.

You all love Mamdani cause you think he's hot and you all want to fuck him. He hates gays and will have you all strung up and stoned by women in Burkas.

[quote]He hates gays and will have you all strung up and stoned by women in Burkas.

Honey it's too early to be that drunk.

Are you a Muslim R52?. Don't get me wrong I've nothing against the guy. But he has no chance of winning in mostly Jewish NYC.

Cuomo just signed the pledge to keep traditional Medicare for city retirees. . That is something Mamdani has refused to do. Not a sexy issue but one that affects thousands of retired city workers.

[quote] AOC endorses Mamdani for NYC Mayor

I was confused, because I read this as, "AOC endorses [bold]Madame[/bold]for NYC Mayor."

R149 .....lesbian drama from Chirlane's ex.

R153, and let us not forget in a city in which 2,977 people were massacred in an islamic terror attack, including 343 fireman. A lot of people lost loved ones, have long memories, see what is really going on and will not go along with it.

[quote] I just got Cuomo's anti-Zohran mailer and it is not subtle.

Because it points out the truth.

[Quote] This muslim clown also wants to create city owned supermarkets just like the ones in the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela and all the other failed marxist states.

There’s so much retardation in this one sentence. Bravo, Matt!

What has Mamdani said about 9/11?

Mamdani and Lander have teamed up. Reminding voters the only way to beat Cuomo is to vote for both of them.

City owned and run supermarkets in NYC?! Are you fucking mad? Have you seen the state of NYC public housing? NYC public schools? NYC infrastructure? Elected officials and bureaucrats are profoundly incompetent. The less power and influence they have over our lives the better. And they usually suffer no consequences for their stupid decisions, we always do.

[quote]mostly Jewish NYC[quote]

NYC has 900,000 Jews in a city of 8.8 million.

Isn't it one supermarket per borough? So five markets? It probably wouldn't be able to compete well at that scale.

^^^^There is no such thing as competition in a socialist state. Everyone is kind, generous, responsible, sharing, benevolent and good.

I wish the moderate front runner were not Cuomo, but I’m also fucking sick of this repetitive movie of young progressives turning whoever the centrist Democrat is into a Republican. Cuomo might be a lot of things, but one of them is a Democrat. As was Chris Quinn. As was Hillary. As was/is Pete Buttigieg. Every cycle we have holier than thou progressive re-labeling good, electable Democrats just because they are not on the far left. Which helped give us Trump

R166 maybe the democrats should run more left leaning candidates. You’re pointing out a consistent desire of a large group democrat voters that isn’t being addressed by the party. You want to win you make your voters passionate. And these centrist politicians aren’t making people passionate about voting.

My counter to that, R167, is that this mindset has convinced younger voters that good Democrats with common sense ideas are much more “conservative” than they really are. For ease, let’s just take Hillary 2016. Until that election, a tiny fraction of young voters even knew Bernie Sanders’ name. Hillary was a historic candidate with a fifty year commitment to the Democratic Party. But the Sanders campaign worked day and night to portray Hillary as a secret Republican in a pantsuit. That was the crux of the campaign, and it did untold damage. It’s been the playbook in lots of recent elections.

R168 Hillary’s problem was herself.

you say the word "woke" and some people go nuts. sorry, but the woke wing of the Dem party caused some big losses over the years. if the woke get so touchy with the word why don't they rebrand? if the Dems, far left woke and moderates, cannot stop sniping, there is no big wins that will happen soon. Mamdani is woke and he needs to convince moderate Dems he can work with everyone within the party. If he is like AOC, it will be a challenge.

R168 It’s likely that because you’re relatively well off, that you’re underestimating the economic stress faced by the working class and overestimating the appeal of weak centrist policy offerings like child tax credits. Kamala’s tax credit and entrepreneurial loan proposal felt to me like she personally spat right in my face. Still voted for her.

The thing about running boring, steady, normal, middle-of-the-road Democrats is that the electorate as a whole sees them as agents of the status quo, which everyone seems to hate.

Kamala was seen as that. So was Hilary.

Espousing new ideas, and since they're Democrats, they have be be lefty ideas, is a way to excite voters.

If the center of the party wants to win so bad, come up with an idea that grabs people. The thing is that all they can ever come up with is "targeted tax cuts over 10 years to reduce drug prices by an average of 8%"

Have you all forgotten what a disaster de Blasio was? Another progressive major, really? Just because you hate Trump and Adams so much. De Blasio was the reason why Adams got elected in the first place although he was clearly a corrupt crook.

Adama was elected because too many people failed to place Garcia somewhere on their ranked choice ballot. There were several thousand ballots that were not counted all the way through the final round because they had fewer than five choices listed. If less than 10 percent of them had listed Garcia in some position, then she would have ultimately finished first.

[quote]Have you all forgotten what a disaster de Blasio was?

How was he a disaster? Please give us all details about what happened in NYC that was so very awful.

Oh! And before you start - he supported the Amazon HQ deal.

Kamala may have actually won, time will tell if massive voter fraud occurred. If it did, it will eventually come out. It would make sense because she ran a middle of the road campaign and probably has more in common with most Americans than the MAGA madman, even in the flyover areas. I don't buy the far-left version that Kamala wasn't far left enough.

[quote] Kamala may have actually won, time will tell if massive voter fraud occurred

Don’t hold your breath.

[quote] I don't buy the far-left version that Kamala wasn't far left enough.

Yea the Dick Cheney endorsement and subsequent welcome to the fold rly screamed far left.

[quote]Why would the mayor of NYC have to advocate for a foreign ethnostate?

"Ethnostate"! Oh, dear.

You're tipping your hand, dear. I imagine it took all of your will not to type "Zionofascist" right?

So long, farewell…

Zohran Mamdani has barely ever had a job, with just 3 years in the workforce — including his ‘rap career’ and a gig for his mom

New York City Mayor candidate Mamdani – who has lived most of his life in subsidized housing – failed in his attempts to be a rapper, musician and managing previous political campaigns.

An analysis of the 33-year-old’s work history shows he has been employed for only approximately three years in the time between graduating college in 2014 and being elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020.

But he went to a little Ivy: Bowdoin.

R182 isn’t being a member of an assembly a job? They get a salary right? When’s the last time Cuomo had a non governmental job? I don’t understand your point.

It’s an elective office. Not a job.

Cuomo is an attorney.

R186 Went to law school in Albany. Licensed in 1984. Has never practiced.

He ‘s had many jobs. Not just one session of the NYA.

R185 he gets paid a salary. It’s a job.

Mamdani could never have qualified to live in public housing with a mother who is a well know film director and a father who is a Columbia professor ($300K salary minimum).

Just voted-Mamdani, Lander, Stringer, Ramos and Adams were my rankings.

R190, yeah, that "public housing" claim is strange. Almost all of the Columbia professors have nice apartments on the Upper West Side.

A correction: that’s not !how much a Columbia professor makes outside of the medical / professional schools / a higher level admin. role.

Bernie Sanders has announced endorsement for Mamdani.

The subsidized housing he lived in was Columbia faculty housing…duh. Some here have no capacity for checking basic fzcts.

R194 Bernie Sanders has zero impact on a mayoral election.

R195, many, many professionals have their housing partially or completely paid for by their employers, because NYC is expensive. It's part of their compensation package. It's not something sinister.

Rank Choice Voting was designed to confuse and Primary day at end of school year guarantees fewer voters. The General Election is by party, by then Rank Choice has done its harm.

This makes no sense: Primary day at end of school year guarantees fewer voters

Mamdani will lead New York into the same ultra-progressive mess that San Francisco has become. He will be unable to deliver the city into some misguided utopia.

R199, private schools are already out and many of those families have scattered about. Sleepaway camps start this weekend or next. Public schools end right after primary day, but there is a lot of activity at the end of the year. It is a near certainty that many would-be voters among this cohort will miss casting a ballot for one of these reasons.

R201, a lot of people do early voting by mail. I live a few blocks from a polling place and still vote by mail.

Keep forgetting just how many of you bitches are lace-curtain log cabinettes and rabid Islamophobes.

Children don’t vote. A man extremely small portion of the city leaves for the entire summer. There’s no historical trend that supports your theory. Too funny.

An* ^

[quote]An analysis of the 33-year-old’s work history shows he has been employed for only approximately three years in the time between graduating college in 2014 and being elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020.

By the time I was seventeen I had a longer work history, with no rap career, or jobs provided by family members.

I was a short order cook at a diner while in high school longer than three years.

I worked as a waiter at Ernie's on 76th + Broadway in the 80s-90s longer than three years.

Should I run for mayor?

Bernie just endorsed Mamdani! Oh, noes! I already voted and did NOT rank that dilettante Mamdani! If only I'd known of that anarchist mountebank's endorsement I could have laughed in glee feeding my ballot into the scanner!

[quote] or jobs provided by family members.

And let me guess you voted for Cuomo R206? Whose father is…..former governor of NY Mario Cuomo? lol

No, r207, I did not!

Also, Mario Cuomo did not hire Andrew to be governor, we actually had an election!

With the DSA swooners, you see "The altered mind alters all"

R208 right it’s pure coincidence they were both governor of NY. He didn’t get any help at all from daddy.

Problem with Mamdani is he promises everything "Free" and has no clue who's going to pay for it. Taxing the rich doesn't work. Much of what he wants to change has to be done by state legislators who he can't control.

[quote]I recently had a ride share guy who is a Muslim and he said a lot of Muslims hate gay people

I saw Mrs. Crabapple in the closet with a Muslim Uber driver and they were making babies and the baby looked at me.

Bernie the anarchist. What delusion. Why are you even a Democrat if you’re so right wing that you interpret what is a centrist liberal in every other rich democracy as some kind of radical? When did Bernie say we should dismantle the state, or the workers should seize the means of production, or that we need to slaughter landlords? Medicare expansion and a higher minimum wage = anarchism?

After I got over my fevered hatred of Bernie in 2016 and actually started listening to what he had to say, I discovered that I mostly agreed with him and liked him very much.

The picture of him sitting at Trump's first inauguration is one of my favorites.

And yet he’s famous only for that, and not winning delegates to the DNC. Name a single bill he carried through passage in Congress.

The Bernie hatred is hilarious and very telling.

It’s not hatred. Sunlight is the best disinfectant—he has done very little.

"Best disinfectant?" Really? Sounds anti-semitic!

What are you "disinfecting," exactly?

It means to shine a light on the fact that his legislative record is non-existent. Don’t be a dolt.

Sure it does, troll.

Bernie is a one note, communist AHLIGAK!

R21 never learned anything about the US Constitution—it’s a direct quote from Louis Brandeis. The first Jewish justice on the USSC.

Go troll your hatred somewhere else, moron.

R217^^

So do you all just want the most corrupt, venal, entrenched politician to be mayor of NY?

Someone who can actually get shit done will suffice. Thank you in advance.

R223, Schumer is running for mayor?

R223, NO. It's Brad Lander for me.

Say what you will about Chuck, but he’s neither corrupt nor venal.

According to the NYCVotes voter guide, zohran's top 3 issues are:

1. Build housing and freeze the rent (yeah, like NYCHA is such a resounding success)

2. Make buses fast and free (um, yeah, ok. this is a BIG issue)

3. Free, universal childcare (one out of three is not good enough)

Only a fool would vote for this clown.

I just came from voting. There were quite a lot of people for a Tuesday afternoon, probably 20 or so.

20? Where did they all fit?

Oddly enough, r229, this is Wednesday in Miami.

Different twilight zones. ;)

LOL, R231, it's Wednesday here, too, in the NYC twilight time zone. I've had weird work schedule the past week and have been very confused, obviously. At least I remembered to vote.

Should we be even letting you vote in such condition?

Hey, listen, R234, every idiot has the right to vote, especially in a presidential election as important as this one!

- R229, or is it 230?

It’s a MAYORAL election numbnut.

If she gave a shit, Susan Collins would be very concerned.

R236, how long have things been going completely over your little head?

And actually, R236, it is a mayoral PRIMARY, along with several other offices.

LOL, nothing funnier than an idiot proudly showing off their stupidity.

A primary is an election. In NYC, this primary will decide the general election.

LOL …lol yourself.

^^^^Nice try. I feel for you, life is hard but much harder for the dumb.

flyers are in the mail (got mine today) on how scary Mamdani would be for most NYers and how he doesn't even belong on the ballot. It was a powerful flyer, and it will make people stop and think before voting for someone who wants to defund police and raise taxes, fees, etc. Probably has no real chance of winning, but if he does, I will hope for his success. Right now, I hope he loses to Cuomo.

Flyers? There’s a tv ad every three minutes

Honestly, what percentage of the Mamdani voters will not vote at all if Cuomo wins the primary?

I'd say north of 80% of the "Don't you dare accuse me of purity" crowd won't show up at all in November due to their...purity. This aligns with the Bernie Sanders effect in everything he goes near. Yes, the horseshoe principle is complete and true. The far left fauxgressives do nothing but amplify Republicans in the end, but oh how good and pious they feel about "Not holding my nose to vote for the lesser of two evils!"

In case you're ever wondering how Trump succeeds!

NYC electorate isn't just Manhattan, and some outer borough, liberals.

If the candidate is wholly unqualified and a person votes for a different candidate, it doesn't mean the voter is Islamophobic. Even Mamdani himself would not vote for a Muslim who is wholly unqualified I imagine.

He is not qualified.

R224 couldn’t the same be said of the “HE ISNT QUALIFIED 😡🥴” crowd? Seems unlikely they would show up if Zohran wins the primary. Is that why trump won?

Cuomo and Mamdani have both stated they will run in November on other lines if they aren’t the Dem nominee.

[quote]Commercials are running in NYC with Mamdani's own words talking about raising taxes and defunding the police.

Well to be honest, NYC has the most over funded police force in America. In 2025 budget of 5.8 BILLION USD. That's 5 times more than most other major cities.

Its police force is 4x larger than the LAPD.

R246, he would. Really, it is important that you educate yourself about islam.

He sounds downright antisemitic to me, not just anti-Israel. I'm normally an AOC supporter but I'm disgusted she endorsed him.

I wouldn't vote for Cuomo either. Equally disgusting. Why does NYC keep coming up with these awful candidates??

R253, he said he is mvslim. This should tell you everything you need to know.

R253 what did he say that was antisemitic?

R250, NYC and NYS is the bastion of democratic party corruption. We have a GDP about equal to Canada and Russia (not combined) and the state completely sucks.

Mandami wouldn't sign a resolution condemning the Holocaust.

The other day he got into it with the U.S. Holocaust Museum of all things. He refused to condemn the “globalize the intifada” term which many Jews find antisemitic.

Seems like two pretty basic things for any politician to do if they don't want to be considered antisemitic.

Eh R257, neither of those sound antisemitic, rather than some people searching for any hint of antisemitism are latching on to these things to project antisemitism onto him. If u read any more into both, there’s of course a lot more nuance to the situation but that’s more complicated than a clean “he’s antisemitic” than what you’re looking for I get it.

For instance below.

[quote] Andrew Epstein, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s campaign, shared the lawmaker’s social media posts commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 and said Mamdani has supported more funding for Holocaust survivors, including by signing onto Assemblymember Nily Rozic’s budget letter advocating to allocate more to a state program for survivors.

That is not antisemitic R257. Refusing to sign something or repeat some phrase some group wants you to say is just common sense if you want to avoid taking sides or escalating a conflict.

Is Israel anti-gay because the only authorized marriage institutions within Israel (religious courts) do not perform same-sex marriage?

That's your silly logic, if you are not 100% onboard with Israel you MUST BE antisemitic. Well then if you are not 100% onboard with gay marriage you must be anti-gay. See how that works?

Trying to paint Mamdani as a scary Muslim is, by itself, racist and divisive; it sounds like something from the 1940s. That Cuomo would stoop to such divisive tactics speaks very poorly of him.

R251, LA could benefit from a bigger police force. One of the reasons that it relies on paramilitary tactics is that it has to police a larger area than NYC with significantly fewer officers. Having a lot of cops is not, by itself, a bad idea, but there are corruption and discipline issues in the NYPD and it's worth examining its budget.

The city of LA does not have more area than NYC. You don’t know your facts. Nor does it rely on “paramilitary” action.

Well................

[quote]In terms of scale, New York City covers a land area of approximately 789 square kilometers (305 square miles), while Los Angeles sprawls over a larger territory, spanning about 1,302 square kilometers (502 square miles). Despite its larger land area, Los Angeles is less densely populated than New York City, with a population density of around 3,249 people per square kilometer (8,433 per square mile), compared to New York City’s density of approximately 10,636 people per square kilometer (27,546 per square mile).

Mine is bigger than yours.

Their effective jurisdictions are quite similar -470 sq miles….NYC, naturally, includes more water than LA.

Defund the police is a losing slogan, no matter what the NYPD budget is.

I don't know why anyone is even bringing that up. The police never got defended, no Democrat elected leader actually said that out loud and many denounced it at the time. It was a stupid Black Lives Matter march slogan. I though this topic was hashed out 5 years ago.

I’ve seen enough and AFAIC he is antisemitic. Or wants people to think he is which is the same thing. And I’ve never said anything about him being Muslim because I certainly don’t think they are all scary antisemitic, or scary.

I also never mentioned or defended Israel which I wouldn’t. You’re trying to spin what I said to make him not look so bad.

I am old and I know an antisemite when I see one and he behaves like one so that makes him one to me.

Since you’re all so concerned about antisemitism, let’s discuss the Islamophobia that cuomo’s campaign has employed. Surely, if one form of religious or ethnic discrimination (or whatever word you would use here) is bad, then all forms are equally bad right? Right?

So here’s an example of a pro Cuomo pac altering an image of Zohran in a way that’s intended to make him look like a “scary Muslim”, we all know there are historical versions done of this for Jewish people. Are our commenters that are so bothered by Zohran’s “antisemitism” (which all seems to be implicit / latent in terms of their examples) upset by this explicit example of Islamophobia against Zohran? Or does religious discrimination only matter when it’s against one certain group?

Speak up! R253, R257, R267 any of you can go first.

[quote] Trying to paint Mamdani as a scary Muslim is, by itself, racist and divisive

Islam isn’t a race. Next.

[quote] let’s discuss the Islamophobia

Which isn’t a real thing.

New Yorkers will elect a center-right male blowhard (in this case, Cuomo) like they do every time.

Islam wants to stone and hang gays, so a bit of fear is healthy. Mamdani is the last person who should be nyc mayor.

Difficult to take the supposed antisemitism accusations on this thread seriously when we have commenters like R272, R269 and R270 go uncriticized.

[quote]Why does NYC keep coming up with these awful candidates??

There are about eight other people running, and if you wanted to run, you could.

You sound like a non-voter.

Complaining about who people vote for can be mostly fixed by getting everyone to turn out and vote, but many don't! That's the issue, imo.

[quote]New Yorkers will elect a center-right male blowhard (in this case, Cuomo) like they do every time.

Nope. Bill DeBlasio was anything but that and was a total disaster. We have plenty of receipts all around.

[quote] Free, universal childcare

[quote] Only a fool would vote for this clown.

I'm sure Ronald Reagan would have agreed with you that free universal health care is a terrible idea. And so would Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell.

R273, Islam IS NOT A RACE. Are you fucking retarded?

Ignore doesn’t just show that r273 is an antisemetic pos, he’s not even American. Everyone FF is moron.

His platform sounds more like he's running for student body president:

1. More dances

2. Better cafeteria food

3. Fewer tests

4. More free days

Cuomo seems to be legitimately worried about numbers. The number of pro-Cuomo, anti-Zohran mailers I'm getting has risen dramatically in the past week, and I noticed a billboard on the Midtown Expressway where the exit to the BQE is.

I can't imagine they'd be spending that if they didn't think there was an actual potential challenge.

R274, the only one of those DeBlasio qualifiers that you could counter-argue is “center-right.” Definitely a male blowhard, though.

You imagined wrong.

That’s the separate Bloomberg PAC.

I wonder if Ben and his father are speaking?

1. There is a concerted effort across this nation to strip sexual minorities of all kinds of their rights. It is not being lead by Muslims, but by Christians.

2. Accusations of Mamdani being a nepo baby are a little rich considering his main opponent got himself nationally know by being Mario Cuomo's son.

3. The idea that Mamdani's mother is some kind of Speilberg-level rich lady is hilarious. She hasn't done a movie since 2016 and her big-time movies (which were never more than art house hits) were in the 90s. I'm not saying they're poor, but come on.

4. Cuomo is a corrupt groper who fucked up the MTA, did pretty bad at Covid and hasn't lived in NYC since the 80s.

5. Mamdani is almost painfully earnest. The idea that he's a secret Muslim radial bent on murdering Jews and homosexuals is completely insane.

You are boring us. Anything else?—6, 7, 8

Imagine the thrill, the rush of social media approval experienced by loud and vocal the Jews for Mamdani!

How truly special they are!

Has Cynthia Nixon said who Cynthia Nixon's Jewish trans child is voting for?

Those earrings don't scream redneck fundamentalist to me? Moreover, and I know this may be down voted by some (so be it), Cuomo's support among black voters could be xenophobia.

R277 what did I say that was antisemitic? Funny you didn’t quote anything, because it’s not there. I can’t believe we’re still doing this but criticizing Israel is not antisemitic.

Secondly, dual citizenship as of this year baby 😝

And finally…

[quote] Everyone FF is moron.

Oh, dear.

You are soooo wrong, Cuomo lives in midtown east, close to his mom.

R288, your stupid ass will be deported in no time. Keep your bags packed.

Well it seems the head of ICE is on the thread!

Has DeBlasio endorsed Mamdani yet? That would be the sweet kiss of death for the poor guy.

The New York Times Editorial Board did publish an editorial on June 16, 2025, explicitly stating that they "do not believe that Mr. Mamdani deserves a spot on New Yorkers’ ballots," arguing his experience is "too thin" and likening his agenda to “a turbocharged version of Mr. de Blasio’s dismaying mayoralty.” They described him as having “less relevant experience than perhaps any mayor in New York history” due to lack of leadership roles in any sizeable public or private organization

This amounted to a clear anti-endorsement: while the Times officially abstained from backing a candidate in municipal elections, they singled out Mamdani as unfit to run.

YIKES, he must be plotzing over this

If anyone would know a too-young person with a thin resume its a Sultzberger.

I think most of us Mamdani supporters take it as a badge of honor not be have an endorsement from the piece of shit rag The New York Times, which might as well be the Post these days

Blacks support Cuomo ? Blacks like Leticia James who put her foot in his ass so completely the Governor was forced to resign?

Blacks support Cuomo due to homophobia?

There are no black gays in NYC?

R394 Newsprint and pixels do not equal living people.

R294^

Yes, R296. It's almost as if the Black population of NYC is not a monolith!

Bill Clinton endorses former top aide Andrew Cuomo for NYC mayor: ‘Never let me down’

NY Times still can make a big difference, especially with fund raising. Mamdani being called "unqualified" is a gut punch.

Communist group slams Mamdani for ‘deceiving working class,’ making ‘false promises’

I don't think Mamdani is closing the gap and is probably going to lose. He is a show pony just like AOC. Nothing would get done for the working or middle class, except higher taxes which he promised to do. Why he thinks he would be a good fit for all NYers is pure hubris on his part.

Cuomo's fundraising is from Michael Bloomberg, DoorDash and Bill Ackerman, who was a Trump Megadonor. Mamdani already maxed out how much he can raise.

I have no idea whether Mamdani is going to win or not. But it's interesting that no one on this thread makes a positive, affirmative case for Cuomo. Of course they can't because Cuomo won't do a fucking thing. Once he gets elected (if he gets elected), he's going to set up the Cuomo for President Committee and start running and NYC will be an afterthought.

I hope Cuomo wins, does well, and makes a full come back to POTUS. He has the charisma (which matters) and A dog personality to up against the Reps. Soft spoken/marble mouth Dems are not going to take us back to power.

The thing is he wan't go up against the Repubs. He kept the Repubs in power in Albany for several years. One of his biggest backers is one of Trump's biggest backers. He agrees with the Repubs on a lot of things. He's going to go full Fetterman if he gets into power.

He proposed free busses. The masses who sleep on the subway will flock to these.

R304, exactly. There's no positive case for Cuomo. He doesn't have charisma; he has an aura of malevolence. He is bitter and self-centered and his career has been one scandal after another. He is not "competent," just predictable.

[quote]I hope Cuomo wins, does well, and makes a full come back to POTUS. He has the charisma (which matters) and A dog personality to up against the Reps.

Are we talking about the same Andrew Cuomo who conspired with the NY Senate Republican caucus to keep them in control of the chamber despite the Democrats having a numerical majority?

Or is this some other Andrew Cuomo?

Aren't the buses already free. Since there seems to be no punishment for not paying. I guess Mamdani will make it official. He doesn't have to worry about cheaper groceries either. Just completely stop enforcing any shoplifting or petty theft laws. All food will then be free!

Mamdani is going to lose heavily and the terminally online people aren't going to be able to process it because everyone they know also voted for Mamdani and they don't know anyone who didn't vote for him.

Exactly, r311, and NONE of them will be voting for Mayor at all in November!

It is the DSA "Divide Dems to Conquer" 2016 Bernie Sanders playbook once more!

Make candidates WHO ARE NOT DEMOCRATS run on their own infrastructure and party.

The subsidised supermarket plan is really quite a dreadful idea. I've looked online and can't see any examples of them working effectively and efficiently.

There are examples of food banks and voucher schemes where low income people can get healthy food or discounted food that needs to be used immediately but the prospect of having city run shops providing that service will cost more than it saves.

Someone here’s pushing all the buttons to get the gays to vote for Doctor N-Word instead of the socialist.

“He’s pro-trans!”

“He’s a critic of Israel so he must be ANTISEMITIC.”

It’s amazing how interested people in Pittsburgh are in the nyc mayoral election. 🤔

I know progressives, and particularly younger ones, like to attack anyone who has any amount of money, but if NYC keeps alienating higher net worth people then it’s creating its own devastation. There is increasingly less reason why anyone needs to do their jobs, and there has been a steady bleed since COVID. A mayor should be trying to reverse this trend, but Mamdani’s plans would most likely do the opposite.

I don't like Cuomo or Mamdani. But I'd vote for the former over the latter.

Should say, “ increasingly less reason why anyone needs to be in NYC to do their jobs.”

R317 I think it should actually say “increasingly fewer reasons” tbh? Correct me if I’m wrong. If jobs is plural then reason should also be plural no?

To your actual point, why should rich people be catered to at the expense of others to such a degree. Giving poor people more financially accessible childcare shouldn’t always be framed as a “don’t scare the wealthy people” sum.

NYC is the richest city in the world. We’re practically infested with the rich and super-rich. Corporations may leave the city but the rest of us are not moving to the suburbs . . . or New Jersey. The rich, however, can’t survive in an enclave made up only of the rich. Wealthy people require a massive support system of people who live alongside them. Those people are every bit as entitled to a government that represents their interests. In a successful city, everyone’s interests are interlinked.

If Cuomo wins, Mamdani will still run on the Working Families line (a progressive state-wide party that has been on the ballot for years); Silva will on Republican line and Adams on an independent line.

If Mamdani wins, Cuomo will run on an independent line.

Either way you have four candidates. No ranked-choice voting in the general.

Silwa*

Do the socialists concede that in order to have an idyllic Scandi social safety net, taxes would have to be raised on everyone, and not just the rich?

I think the results are going to surprise people.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still expecting Cuomo to win, but I think it’ll end up being closer than expected.

R323, no, they still think that you can get to Scandinavia by just taxing millionaires and billionaires. They will never give up the fantasy.

The Clintons have endorsed Cuomo. He's going to win big.

R323, the middle class gets taxed no matter what. It’s just a question of whether the rich kick in or not.

Any tax hike must pass the NYS legislature. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Albany is inclined to give a tax rebate at this point, not a jacked-up rate. Good luck—

[quote] The Clintons have endorsed Cuomo

So did George Santos.

So, you know, that’s who you’re aligned with.

Seriously. Santos trolling is not “alignment” as to anything.

Yes he may win the primary, but let’s face it, in the general election the democratic power brokers will make sure Como is mayor or the Republicans will have their best chance yet in New York.

When you're in bed with the likes of George Santos, Laura Loomer and Fox Noise you should ask some hard questions about precisely what you're voting for.

good and hard!

Ad hominem nonsense.

Positive polling for Zohran on the eve of the election :)

How many times are you all going to quote that one poll?

R336 didn’t see it upthread?

Wow a failed rapper with socialist ideas is about to become a big city Mayor. Only in New York.

[quote]Wow a failed rapper with socialist ideas is about to become a big city Mayor. Only in New York.

Because his main challenger is a carpetbagging sexual predator with nippple rings who killed your peepaw back in 2020.

At least he’s done something!

Peepaw was overdue as it is…

Enjoy it this time next year New Yorkers when your city becomes Tehran, all law enforcement is gone, and all those freebies you were promised never come to fruition.

The Horse Shoe Principle in full effect!

It's all over for Mamdani, poison dwarf Owen Jones has written his article about him.

The ranked choice count (i.e. second round and so on) will not begin until July 1, a week after the election, because absentee, mail-in and affidavit votes, can be received and counted up until then.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[quote]“Super-clear messaging” is how Mausser sums up the Mamdani strategy. The early campaign settled on three main messages: “Fast and free buses, freeze the rents, free childcare. That’s so easy to remember. People know it, and it’s said over and over and over again.” Mamdani has other pledges, too – such as launching publicly run grocery stores – but key to his success are core, endlessly repeated commitments focused on a cost of living crisis triggered by a broken economic system.

Super clear messaging really does work.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

BUILD THE WALL

LOCK HER UP

Fast and free buses, freeze the rents, free childcare.

None of which he would succeed in getting….

They said the same thing about universal pre-K and now it's the norm. Political reality can be bent. You just have to try rather than give up before you start.

That’s not how pre-k came about.

R343, Owen really is the worst, typical twitter leftist.

If the NY Times had endorsed Mamdani instead of saying to not vote for him AT ALL, his campaign would have celebrated the endorsement.

Looks like he didn't need that endorsement after all.

[quote]I think the results are going to surprise people.

Told you so.

Well L M A O cranks

Cuomo has conceded. Crickets around here this evening funny that.

You’re in the wrong thread…🫣

Wow. Almost like trying to kneecap your most promising candidate with 24/7 attack ads painting him as the love child of Hitler and Osama bin Laden...

....

...backfired.

I love that this aged-like-milk thread was bumped. Once again DLers show their whole asses making a political prediction based on nothing but their own rabid conservatism. Never has a group been so thoroughly out of touch than the establishment worshipping GO-- I mean, DNC lovers of DL.

I don't know how he is gonna do what he says he's gonna do coz all that shit ain't happening...it's fucking ridiculous. Only the young and dumb would vote for him. I think maybe it's Curtis the guardian angel who might take it ....

Eric Adams will run as an independent. Tough choice between a corrupt former cop/Dem/Al Sharpton acolyte or an inexperienced unqualified candidate who has the backing of AOC and deemed unfit by the NY Times who is ok with defunding the police and raising taxes on billionaires which will cause them to flee NYC to greener pastures. Hmmm. NYC will quickly become a hellscape with billions marked for the poor and nobody to pay.

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has publicly condemned Zohran Mamdani’s justification of the slogan “globalize the intifada.” This will not play well for him in the general.

I think it'll be a three way tie between Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa and the House of Representatives will have to decide it. NO ONE in New York likes the muslim socialist, they all know if he's elected everyone with more than $12 in their checking account will be forced to live with illegal aliens and he'll close all the stores and replace them with transgendering clinics for 7 year olds.

With $1.1bn in overtime and approx 34,000 cops, this comes out to around $32,500 per cop annually. And you people are ok with this? They are robbing taxpayers blind.

I really had to look twice to make sure that was satire, R361.

Erm, well played.

If the Holocaust Museum is against you, there is a problem.

Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.

R365, I read about that. Who are these people who are torn between living in New York City and Florida? What’s the decision process? “New York is so culturally exciting, but I’m also drawn to the substandard medical care and poor building construction in Florida.”

And you believe that, R365.

[quote] High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.

GOOD! Isn't that the point? NYC has basically been a dumping ground for millionaires and billionaires to park their money in real estate which drives up the cost for the regular people who actually have to work for a living and work in the city?

Mamdani has no clue how to manage crime. NYPD cops will eat him alive. It will be a brutal and dangerous city for many of us. Alvin Bragg will become the Maytag repairman with nobody to prosecute.

Define "us", R369, since you're not a New Yorker.

Worthy read of how different neighborhoods end up voting similarly. The city is changing right before our eyes.

I’ll admit that I’ve not given much thought to the East River corridor that runs from Astoria all the way down to the Brooklyn waterfront. Per this piece, I live in the safety and comfort of Bloomberg world—a bubble in the new NYC.

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Whites voted for him. Blacks did not. Typical.

R360, Jews are Democrats and they overwhelmingly voted for him. NYC is overwhelmingly Democrat. He already won the election. He’s the next mayor, god help us all.

That’s not true at all. He received more Black votes than the three Black candidates combined. His strongest support was among Latinos and Asians.

What an interesting choice for a mayoral candidate for the Dems in NY.

The media will go hard on anyone who is anti establishment, & while I have yet to sit down & research credible sources regarding this guy’s stance on various issues, one thing is clear:

Young voters are absolutely sick of the status quo establishment, which allows for total disruption & chaos in all upcoming elections, since many people have abandoned critical thinking, as well evidenced by the creation now known as MAGA. The left isn’t immune to dirty tactics & deception.

We shall soon see which of these candidates has the most savvy social media campaign in order to win, & realistically, we should remember that we’re now in an age where politicians are favored due to total corruption and/or incompetence, hence, let the shit-show games carry on!

“they overwhelmingly voted for him” is factually incorrect.

R374, all Jews are NOT democrats.

I grew up in NYC, & Jews are both democrats or republicans.

It all depends on specific demographics, including, but not limited to their age, income, & what they do for a living, & what neighborhoods they live in.

NYC has plenty of conservative Jews, & Jews who are pro-Zionism, voted for Trump.

[quote] Tough choice between a corrupt former cop/Dem/Al Sharpton acolyte or an inexperienced unqualified candidate who has the backing of AOC and deemed unfit by the NY Times who is ok with defunding the police and raising taxes on billionaires which will cause them to flee NYC to greener pastures.

Don't forget, Adams did something no other mayor did--he got trash bins installed in NYC. That's worth something in a city like NYC.

[quote]The media will go hard on anyone who is anti establishment...

The opposite is true.

The media is very prone to "shiny new object" syndrome and likes to build people up quickly so as to take them down hard!

You'd never hire a plumber or bricklayer with this little experience would you? Unless you liked anti-Semites, I guess, huh?

^^^yes and Hitler made the trains run on time 🙄

R380, exactly. It did that with Bernie. It didn't criticize him nearly as much as he deserved. Same with Mamdani. He's a nepo baby who has never had a real job.

Mussolini, numbnut.

Oh I'm sorry, did I mix my fascists up, "numbnut?" Idiot.

[quote]Within minutes of Zohran Mamdani clinching the Democratic nomination Tuesday night, real estate agents like Ryan Serhant were flooded with calls from clients looking to walk away from deals to buy apartments in NYC. High-end buyers are now looking to purchase property outside of the city.

Oh no! Poor billionaires. They'll have to sell one of their 12 homes and buy a different 12th home just outside the city! The horrors!

Mamdani is so damn likable in his interviews. He also knows how to use social media better than any politician today.

Wow. I am a lifelong moderate Dem and have been in NYC for a long time and would never vote for this guy. I rather Liz Cheney for mayor of NYC over this guy. She would be tough on crime at least. Will be interesting to see how true Dem socialism plays in NYC when the super-rich and rich move out and only the people who depend on NYC taxpayers have to share a shrinking pie to slice. The fun will begin.

It’s funny how none of you will consider criticizing the “super rich” who will leave when asked to pay a fair share of tax. The kowtowing to the uber wealthy at the expense of most of the residents of a city is just accepted as standard business, because the complete excess of capitalism and its control of media has bamboozled your brains in its favour. Something needs to be done to control the excesses of capitalism. This is a start. Democratic expression of disagreement with a system that only benefits a few is a positive step, and at this point the only way to change things - but of course to our old trolls it’s “don’t scare the rich folk 🥴”

[quote]all Jews are NOT democrats.

The majority are.

[quote]Mamdani is so damn likable in his interviews. He also knows how to use social media better than any politician today.

Like Trump.

Should be interesting if this inexperienced guy can get elected. It will be heartburn for many flyover Dems to defend in their parts of the country. The party will be split in two and eventually, possibly, lead to a three-party system. The moderates Dems and Reps getting together as one party and the far left and far right the other two. This would be a silver lining of sorts.

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Is it true he wants government run grocery stores? WHAT?

R393, food prices are a huge issue in NYC. I don’t know if anyone has publicly alleged that chain stores collude on prices, but I have heard it discussed. Mamdani has proposed having five subsidized stores throughout the city to put a mild degree of pressure on the commercial stores, and provide access to underserved places. The billionaire who owns the vile Gristede’s chain has threatened to pull all of his stores from NYC if that happens.

Yes, r388 because the success of all cities especially NYC has always been the strength and influence of their collective farms!

Yea all this simpering about the tight margins of grocery stores. I worked on the house of the owner of a grocery company with not so many stores. The budget was somewhere between $30m-$40m. Cry me a river.

Communism at its finest. Bring it on!

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[quote]The billionaire who owns the vile Gristede’s chain has threatened to pull all of his stores from NYC if that happens.

Let him, his loss, he still need customers to make that money. No stores, no customers, no money.

He’s just mad because when he ran for mayor, no one voted for him. Plus, he’s an ogre and his daughter is nuts.

Anyone with contempt for Israel gets my vote

Anne Frank thanks you, r401!

Traditionally the moneyed elite in NYC generously supported the city and its cultural institutions. Now many of them act like the sociopaths of Silicon Valley, vacant people who don’t understand that they are part of a community. Cuomo was their guy and now they are panicking.

[quote]Is it true he wants government run grocery stores? WHAT?

Breathe, dear. Breathe.

You do realize that states and municipalities operate liquor stores all over the country and life goes on? Right? It's really rather modest. (I don't think it will happen but it's not *insane.)