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There was Andrew Cuomo, at Madison Sq. Backyard, yukking it up at a Knicks recreation.
What was the ousted governor so completely satisfied about? He’d simply come from the ultimate New York mayoral debate, the place he landed some blows towards front-runner Zohran Mamdani, however he’s nonetheless on observe to lose the election.
Ah, however the look at an NBA recreation (the league out of the blue tainted by a playing scandal that features the Mafia!) – was a photograph op, with Mayor Eric Adams, who endorsed his onetime rival yesterday.
So what if he referred to as Cuomo “a snake and a liar” final month?
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But Adams, who had been indicted on corruption costs–till the Trump Justice Department dropped the case–was down within the single digits. So his backing might not transfer many votes, although it might give Cuomo some avenue cred within the Black group and amongst Orthodox Jews.
New York Metropolis politics is a recreation of nine-dimensional chess, with shifting alliances, red-hot rivalries and clashing narratives. Talking as a local, you’ve acquired to know the melting pot, the boroughs, the ethnic neighborhoods, Wall Road, Albany–it’s an asphalt jungle.
New York mayors are likely to develop into nationwide figures–John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg–by reigning within the media capital.
You assume it’s a coincidence that Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are all from New York? C’mon! Whatsa madder wid you?
Mamdani, an assemblyman who began out at 1 p.c, ought to have been clobbered by Cuomo, who ran a lazy, entitled effort and misplaced the Democratic nomination.
From left, Mayoral candidates Impartial candidate former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani take part in a mayoral debate, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in New York. (Angelina Katsanis, Pool/AP Picture)
From Harlem to Coney Island, Mamdani proved to be a charismatic campaigner. He’ll possible win even when the Republican, Curtis Sliwa, previously of the Guardian Angels, drops out, which he has no incentive to do.
So the race has morphed right into a Cease-Mamdani motion, primarily as a result of he’s a self-described democratic socialist who previously has taken some far-left stances, equivalent to defunding the police. Republicans would like to make him a nationwide image of the celebration; Trump usually denounces him as a “communist.” But even many Democrats fear about him driving enterprise out of the Apple.
Cuomo, because the son of a governor, inevitably appears the institution candidate. And Andrew, who I’ve identified since he was 25, earlier than he ran HUD, has the luggage of being pressured to resign over allegations of sexual harassment by 13 ladies–with Mamdani saying that one in every of them, Charlotte Bennett, was within the debate viewers.
Cuomo, off stability, stated no costs had ever been filed. Trump, by the way in which, pulled the identical transfer in a debate with Hillary Clinton.
Andrew Cuomo was additionally blamed for nursing residence deaths in the course of the pandemic.
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The New York Times has seven “takeaways,” equivalent to Cuomo having “extra power” and touchdown “extra blows” towards Mamdani: “He’s by no means run something, managed something; he’s by no means had an actual job.”
In a basic New York putdown, the ex-governor stated Trump would roll proper over Mamdani: “He thinks he’s a child and he’s going to knock him on his tuchus.” (You may look it up. Mayor Koch as soon as referred to as somebody a “schmuck” and there was an entire editors’ debate over whether or not I might print that.)
Mamdani countered that Cuomo would merely be “Trump’s puppet.”
In case you’re getting the impression that the president is fairly unpopular in his residence metropolis, now deserted for Palm Seaside, you’re proper.
Each rivals hit Mamdani on Israel, with Sliwa saying his two younger sons, who’re Jewish, really feel unsafe.
That is likely one of the key factors within the Washington Post, which clocks in at 5 “takeaways.”
“He doesn’t assume the nation ought to exist as a majority-Jewish state and will as a substitute concentrate on equal rights for each Palestinians and Jews. On this debate, the assaults on Mamdani, who’s Muslim, appeared to land more durable, at the same time as Mamdani insisted he would battle anti-Semitism.”
Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani (R) Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa (L) and Impartial candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo take part within the second New York Metropolis mayoral debate at LaGuardia Performing Arts Middle at LaGuardia Neighborhood Faculty in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP)
Which brings us to a much more private assault from Occasions columnist Bret Stephens, below the headline “Why Mamdani Scares Jews Like Me.”
He invokes some lesser-known stances from the previous.
One, when Mamdani based the Bowdoin Faculty chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, he stopped cooperating with the left-wing Jewish group J Road, which backs Palestinian statehood and opposes Israeli settlements
“Why? As a result of J Road helps Israel as ‘a democratic homeland for the Jewish individuals.’ This was an excessive amount of for Mamdani…who to today doesn’t assist Israel’s proper to exist as a Jewish state.”
Two, Mamdani wrote a rap track in 2017 declaring love for “the Holy Land 5…The Holy Land Basis was an ostensible charity convicted in 2008 of funneling $12 million to Hamas,” with the defendants convicted of terrorism and different crimes.
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Three, just a few months earlier than the Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas, Mamdani launched a invoice “that would have jeopardized the tax-exempt standing of just about each pro-Israel charity.” Stephens accuses the front-runner of “monomania.”
That is no small matter in a metropolis with the world’s largest Jewish inhabitants outdoors Israel. However Mamdani has met with rabbis and a few youthful Jewish voters are backing him, both as a result of they’re centered on his affordability marketing campaign or oppose the harm and loss of life toll that Israel has inflicted on Gaza.
And get this: Cuomo simply pulled down an AI advert exhibiting Mamdani supporters as looters, drunk drivers as human traffickers. “Simply disgusting,” stated Zohran.
In order that about wraps this piece up, proper?
Sit down! There’s all the time extra drama within the metropolis that by no means sleeps.
Curtis Sliwa out of the blue stop his job at New York’s high speak radio station, WABC (a rock station again in my day).
Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa participates within the second New York Metropolis mayoral debate with Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani and Impartial candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at LaGuardia Performing Arts Middle at LaGuardia Neighborhood Faculty in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Picture by Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP) (Picture by HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs) ((Picture by Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP) (Picture by HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs))
“You’ll by no means see me on the studios of WABC once more!” he thundered.
Sliwa stated those that he employed and educated have been betraying him by urging him to stop with a purpose to cease Mamdani.
Billionaire John Catsimatidis, the station proprietor, who ran for mayor himself a decade in the past, has additionally instructed he bow out.
Sliwa informed host Sid Rosenberg that WABC is biased towards Cuomo. “You’re gonna lose and also you’re gonna lose badly, embarrassingly,” Rosenberg stated as their shouting match grew louder.
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I don’t know why Curtis Sliwa would quit the gig. However because the politicians know, New York is an outta-my-way, horn-honking place the place everybody takes turns being mad at one another.
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