Report: Cuomo to Remain in NYC Mayoral Race as Democrat Panic About Mamdani Rises
“[Cuomo’s] camp also believes Mamdani and his policy ideas, from a rent freeze to city-operated grocery stores, will receive increased scrutiny now that Mamdani is positioned to secure a Democratic primary win…’
New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s apparent Democratic mayoral primary victory in New York City has sent shockwaves through the party’s establishment wing in the Empire State, with some prominent Democratic officials already distancing themselves from him ahead of the allocation of ranked-choice votes in the coming days.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is among them, saying in a radio interview Thursday on the issue of the “Globalize the intifada” chants from the pro-Hamas mobs who back his candidacy that the AOC/Bernie Sanders-backed Democratic Socialist should unequivocally denounce them.
“As a leader of a city as diverse as New York City, with 8 million people, as the largest Jewish population in the country, he should denounce it,” Gillibrand stated. “And that’s it. Period.”
“It is a serious word. It is a word that has deep meaning. It has been used for wars across time and violence and destruction and slaughter and murder against the Jews,” she also said.
It is perhaps with the growing Democrat panic in mind, not to mention the GOP already turning Mamdani into the face of the Democratic Party, that disgraced former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reportedly decided to stay in the race even after conceding the primary to Mamdani:
Andrew Cuomo will not drop out of the New York City mayoral race by the Friday deadline to remove himself from the general election ballot, sources tell CNN. That leaves in place contingency plans he had established before the Democratic primary to challenge Zohran Mamdani and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in November.
The former New York governor, who quickly conceded the Democratic primary race on Tuesday night to Mamdani, has not fully committed to running an active campaign through the summer and fall. But Cuomo will keep the place he already secured on the “Fight & Deliver” ballot line for the November election, three sources say.
Cuomo is calculating that the full city’s electorate would be significantly different from Democratic primary voters who were energized by Mamdani’s focus on affordability and his campaign’s online videos. His camp also believes Mamdani and his policy ideas, from a rent freeze to city-operated grocery stores, will receive increased scrutiny now that Mamdani is positioned to secure a Democratic primary win once ranked-choice votes are allocated next week.
Critics have concerns that Cuomo staying on the ballot might take votes away from Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent:
“Cuomo’s name in the race is fantastic for Mamdani,” said Sal Albanese, a former Brooklyn city councilman. “A thousand percent Cuomo is playing the spoiler. It makes Mamdani’s task of getting elected mayor much easier.”
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“If Cuomo stays in the race he splits the anti-Mamdani vote and helps Mamdani,” said state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a Dyker Heights resident.
“He’s playing the spoiler — 100 percent. He has no chance of winning and only takes votes from Adams and Curtis,” Kassar said, referring to GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.
Former state assemblyman Dov Hikind called on Cuomo *and* Adams to drop out, apparently believing Sliwa has a chance to defeat Mamdani:
For the future of NYC
I call on Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams to drop out of the General Election.
NYC must unite to defeat the Dangerous Anti Semite Mamdani. pic.twitter.com/Id3BwApJEO— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) June 25, 2025
I’m honored to have the support of renowned activist and former New York State Assemblyman, the great Dov Hikind! I’m proud to have his guidance and support in combatting antisemitism in this city, as we’ve seen a horrific rise in hate crimes towards Jewish families over the past… pic.twitter.com/QY3bxuTviq
— Curtis Sliwa (@CurtisSliwa) June 27, 2025
Meanwhile, Eric Adams isn’t wasting any time letting voters know what’s at stake in this race:
Eric Adams hits the nail on its head:
“This is a city NOT of socialism. I have been to socialist countries. There is no dignity in someone giving you everything for free. There is dignity in giving you a job so you can provide for your family.”
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 27, 2025
It’s hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that NYC has gone from a terrorist attack like 9/11 to possibly being on the verge of electing an anti-American, pro-Hamas, antisemitic candidate like Mamdani, and yet here we are.
While it’s hard to predict with any degree of certainty how this ultimately will play out, the first post-mayoral primary poll is out and shows Cuomo and Mamdani both with equal levels of support, and Adams trailing badly:
As speculation swirls over whether former [governor] Cuomo will continue his campaign as an independent after conceding the Democratic primary to Mamdani, a new poll shows the two candidates in a statistical tie heading into November’s general election.
The polling, conducted independently by the Honan Strategy Group 48 hours after Mamdani’s stunning victory, showed both Mamdani and Cuomo garnering 39% support among likely general election voters in a five-way race between them, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, independent candidate Jim Walden and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who trailed at 13%.
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In the scenario that Cuomo does not appear on the ballot, pollsters found that Mamdani would lead Adams by 15 points.
But if Adams were to drop out, Cuomo appears to pick up the support of likely Adams voters and gains a slight edge, leading Mamdani by 4 points — just outside the poll’s margin of error of ±3.4%.
Adams officially kicked off his general election campaign Thursday.
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so the guy who sent people to their nazishowers
vs
the pos who will end up dong the same
So let’s split the vote like in the primary so the commie can win? Idiots.
In the primary there was no split vote. It was preferential voting, so it’s impossible to “split the vote”. People vote for what they truly prefer, and for the people who voted in the primary that turned out to be Mamdani.
Headline:
DEMS TERRIFIED BY STUPID VOTERS THEY BRED. TRAINED, AND COURTED
It doesn’t matter if Cuomo, or anyone else stays in the race. The Democratic nominee will be the next mayor, ergo, Zohran Mamdani.
That is very far from a given. If, by the time voting starts all the other candidates but one withdraw, the remaining candidate stands a good chance of winning.
What happens if six independent mayoral candidates end up on the ballot?
If the general election, like the primary, were run by preferential voting (“ranked choice”) then it wouldn’t matter. They could all run their best campaign, and also all endorse a separate campaign with the slogan “No matter whom you put first, put Mamdani last”, and so long as they had a majority between all of them and their voters complied with this call, one of them would win.
But since the general election is not by preferential voting, having multiple candidates in the race will split the anti-Mamdani vote, and is likely to give him the victory even if his support is well short of a majority.
That’s why all but one needs to drop out. They don’t have to decide it immediately, but they do have to decide before early voting starts, and preferably before the ballots are printed.
“put Mamdani last”
In NY’s version of RCV, do you HAVE to rank every candidate on the ballot, or can you just leave some of them a blank “hell, no”?
In NYC’s version you only get five choices, regardless of how many candidates are on the ballot. And they are optional, so you could leave him off altogether. But “put him last” makes for a better campaign slogan and gets the message across.
In any case, the general election is first-past-the-post, so vote splitting is a real concern.
Not at all obvious. The party games played by NYC candidates are notorious.
Remember: Little Mikey Bloomberg, a Democrat, ran as a Republican when he got frozen out on the Democrat ticket… and won.
I’m not sure what you mean by “frozen out”. He could have run in the Dem primary, but there were already four strong candidates so it would have been a tough and expensive fight, and he might well have lost it. Whereas on the Rep side the only person in his way was poor little Herman Badillo with a budget of about $500, so he filed as a Republican and ran right over him.
So it’s Kamala Harris 2.0
Have a primary, but then when the voters ‘choose wrong’, just replace the candidate.
And they wonder why their approval rating is so low.
What the hell are you talking about? Assuming Mamdani ends up winning the primary as expected, he will be the Dem candidate. No one is talking about removing him. We’re now talking about the real election in November, and how best to defeat him then.
It’s hard for me to wrap my brain around the fact that NYC has gone from a terrorist attack like 9/11 to possibly being on the verge of electing an anti-American, pro-Hamas, antisemitic candidate like Mamdani, and yet here we are.
Yeah, no one saw that coming…. flood “sanctuary cities” with illegals looking for handouts and drive away normal, hardworking people with policies that result in sky high rent, taxes, and cost of living in general….
And they still deny that “replacement theory” is an actual thing….
IMO, if Mamdani wins the general election, that would help Elise Stefanik beat Hochul in 2026 for Governor. The governor has some authority to remove the NY City mayor and I suspect that could be a good campaign issue for Stefanik.
So how will New York City Jews vote? NYC has approximately 960,000 Jewish residents. I’ll guess that about 700,00 are eligible to vote. Many of them will like voting for a socialist (really a communist), but some unknown number won’t vote for a Muslim. I’m originally from NYC having spent about the first 40% of my life there, although I moved away a long time ago. My grandparents came to the US in the 19th Century from the Pale of Settlement, and spoke only Yiddish. I know NYC Jews, and how they think and act very well. They have a romantic attachment to socialism. In my opinion, secular and Reform Jews have replaced G_d by the state and worship government. Not the case for Chabad and Hasidim, and some “modern” Orthodox. This attitude goes way back. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, in the 1920 presidential election, the socialist Eugene Debs (running from prison) got 38% of the Jewish vote as compared to 3% of the national vote. In my opinion, American Jews have not changed much and some could vote for Mandami. So how they vote in the upcoming mayoral election will be very interesting. I remember a conversation I had with a Jewish neighbor as a teenager. He was in his 50’s, and he was very impressed with the novel “Looking Backward” by Bellamy published in 1888. A fictional future history about a man who wakes up in 2000 to a US transformed into a socialist paradise. How naive. Of course the theoretical ideal always does better than the actual reality. This what I mean by “romantic attachment to socialism.” I have come to the realization that my fellow Jews are the most gullible of all the ethnic groups.
Red diaper babies is the term coined for NY Jews that were refugees for communist countries. Loved socialism but hated the implementation. Big trade union types too no surprise.
Rather, it was coined for the kids of commie refugees.
WIkipedia: “A red diaper baby is a child of parents who were members of the Communist Party USA or the Communist Party of Canada, or were close to the party or sympathetic to its aims”
In other words the child of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia/SU who loved the system but not the implementation. NYC was filled with them. Of course anyone else could qualify too.
My only point was that “red diaper babies” weren’t simply any old commies, they were kids raised in commie households. Like Kamala, for example..
Data is that Jews voted Cuomo and mostly other whites voted for the Islamist.
Its too late for cuomo. Its not his time. He reminds dems of older generation establishment straight white male in suit, sitting behind a desk, from the 90s, line clinton and biden. The party has fault line. Cuomo can’t bridge that fault line. Very few older dems can, like bernie because he has always claimed to be socialist, and runs around with AOC as side kick.
Zohran wants to legalize drugs and prostitution. NYC going to become san fran shitshow 10x. Quality of life issues resulting in lost decade.
40% of NYC are foreign-born, Mamdani reminds them of home
Cuomo I believe will take votes away from Adams. Both will take votes from Sliwa. The Marxist Muslim will win since most people always vote for Dems and NYC will turn into a third world city. This will cause values of property to decline. Business will move or die and people will leave as the Mayor and City Council will add taxes while they cut services and city workers (such as NYPD and NYFD).
Financial institutions are a cornerstone of NY City’s economy. With modern communications they can operate from anywhere in the world. If they leave and take their very highly paid employees and tax base with them, the city (and state) may be in very difficult position.
You can’t fix stupid.
True. But if you’re dumb, you CAN become dumber.
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
What happens if no one gets a majority in the general?
Gillibrand again proves what an empty pant suit she is. The democratic socialist embrace antisemitism. There is no way they denounce it. They love the new guy. Look at Bernie.
Every single dramacrat Jew in congress should stand up and repudiate this guy. They should say he doesn’t speak for dramacrats and they should kick him out if he is a member of their party. They should urge New Yorkers to vote for someone else. they won’t though.
Of all the crazy things to come from Mamdami, it’s a tie between city-run grocery stores and abolition of the police department. Either one of those will be a disaster, and both together … hoo wee.
With both together the city-run grocery stores will routinely be robbed as soon as they get any stock in, so their shelves will constantly be empty. And the private grocery stores will also be robbed and forced out of business, so there will be no groceries to be had.
About grocery stores, in the spring of ’24 when Senile Joe accused the grocers of profiteering from covid, I drew on my business school education and investment management experience and actually looked at the numbers. Wow, imagine that.
I compiled a list of the five largest publicly-traded sellers of groceries, and the five largest publicly-traded food processors. I found the annual reports for the prior six years, and looked at what matters: Their gross margins and their operating margins.
Biden (not him, but his handlers) was wrong. The margins change over time, as margins always do (except for Costco, which has the most stable margins of just about any of the hundreds of companies whose financials I looked at before retirement), but there hadn’t been any material changes other than Tyson Foods, whose margins actually plummeted during the period. Everyone else’s margins were steady.
Grocery margins are paper thin. They make it up on the volume. So New York City is going to open and operate its own grocery stores? It is impossible to overstate what a flaming disaster that will be. It’s even dumber, by an order or three of magnitude, than Trump’s announcement that he would sell gold-plated cellphones made in America.
At least Trump’s cellphone flop will be a private flop. Grocery stores owned and operated by the city of New York will like those staged train crashes that were popular a hundred years ago, except the only entertainment will for people in flyover country who will laugh their asses off at the idiotic spectacle of it all.
Never forget, government conservators couldn’t even manage to profitably maintain a whorehouse and a black-web child-porn website, both of which were handed over to them fully operational and with a healthy client list.
“He’s playing the spoiler — 100 percent. He has no chance of winning and only takes votes from Adams and Curtis,” Kassar said, referring to GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.”
I don’t think any Democrat candidates will be taking many votes from Sliwa. In fact, Cuomo might make it possible for Sliwa to win.
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