Meanwhile Booker refuses to endorse Mamdani. Billionaire class solidarity transcends party politics.
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I can't think of anything more campaign sinking than an endorsement from Trump in an NYC mayoral race (that Cuomo already lost within his own proported party).
Bets on Cuomo (or Adams) takes the endorsement, loses, then Trump says some shit like 'Rigged. Fake news.' ?
It would be both "rigged, fake news" and "I don't know Cuomo/Adams".
To me, this just absolutely shouts “we’re gonna try to interfere in the election, up to and including fairly overt election fraud, or just declaring someone a winner by appointment and ignoring the election results”.
It wouldn't just be a Trump endorsement. It's putting the might of the conservative propaganda machine behind him. It's getting Sliwa, the Republican candidate, to drop out and endorse him
NYC is very Democrat, but the Republican base is still a significant voting block. If they can get that bloc to vote Cuomo, and rally the Adams base (likely offering him immunity/pardons, and some position of power), they represent a sognificant threat to Mamdani, even if he is the most popular candidate by far
Trump doesn't believe in free and fair elections. He's shown he's more than willing to break the law to get the election results he wants
I think you're correct, if Trump orchestrates all of that (Sliwa and Adams both dropping out) without explicitly endorsing, that could be a threat. But Trump is toxic waste in NYC. Of course everywhere has their share of assholes, but NYers have a long memory for crises specifically. Trump deliberately targeted them during covid, bragged about his building height during 9/11, I could go on. They hate his guts way more than they hate Cuomo.
Nah. Mamdani will easily win.
Without interference, I think he'll win easily. I just don't have confidence in the integrity of a local election in the current US political climate
Not to say vote machines will be tampered with, just that there's a lot of ways Trump and the current political machine can interfere. Especially since anti-Mamdani is something old guard Democrats and Conservatives can agree on
I want this to happen for this very reason.
Just look what Trumps endorsement did for Canada’s election.
If Trump wants Cuomo to win, then Trump should try endorsing Mamdani.
Doubt it would work, on the whole the left voters are far far less fucking stupid than the right
The Streishand Effect would be incredible.
There's no downside for Mamdani either way.
All that bullshit pandemic act of his. Don't let him back (if you can)! Maybe Bill Maher could offer them both handjobs in these trying times.
I cannot conceive of a more abrasive handjob.
They'd very much deserve that.
Charts!
-Kyle Dunnigan
And I'm sure Cuomo will claim he's better suited for fighting Trump.
That was the whole idea of his primary campaign.
He's going to do the bear hug strategy, worked out great when Biden did it with Bibi.
Just keep giving in until everyone's starving.
Corrupt sex offenders of a feather...
oh wait your serious. let me roll my eyes even harder
Oh, please do. That certainly won't make any Mamdani supporters change their minds, and probably will scare off Cuomo supporrters
They're friends?
Im shocked.
Yeah must be proof Cuomo isnt a real new Yorker, they've hated Trump for decades
Shows how absolutely corrupt the Democratic party is if this is true.
How?
When you have Democrats, and Cuomo is a Democrat, being willing to work with Trump like this then it just shows how absolutely corrupt and pathetic he and the party when they haven't already kicked his ass five ways from Sunday for running as a "independent".
Also let's not forget that the Democratic leadership refuses to endorse Zohran Mamdani.
Vote blue no matter who right? Right? Snake? Snaaaake!
Yeah, my ass, this party is pathetically corrupt to the bone.
Release the Epstein files
Why would trump endorse a loser?
To distract from the Epstein files
Please please please.