Some political observers are saying that New York Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a sleazy, two-faced, peddler of political snake-oil whose Communist agenda would only demonstrate yet one more wearisome time the capability of Marxism to reduce a city striving toward prosperity and peace to a rubble-strewn ruin of homelessness, crime and poverty in order to create an urban hellscape that would express through the human misery of others, a leftist like Mamdani’s virulent hatred of God, America, the Jews, humanity and himself even while he continues to disguise that hatred behind a smile of chilling insincerity and the sort of vague, Obama-like bromides of deceptive political oration that anyone but an idiot or a Democrat would recognize instantaneously as the mesmeric lies of a man whose heart has been poisoned by a diabolical socialist ideology that transforms every natural human instinct toward goodness into a bubbling black tar of destructive evil.
Other political observers are saying other things. Like, “What’s on TV tonight?” or “I wonder if it’s too late to get a reservation for dinner.” Because watching Mamdani’s rise to front-runner in the New York mayoral race is so disturbing, they’d rather think about practically anything else.
Left-leaning New York politicians are uncertain whether or not they should endorse Mamdani and have been nervously tracking the opinions of a mob of naked, blood-drenched maniacs who at first seemed to be the extras who played the rage zombies in “28 Years Later” but instead turned out to be the Democrat base. As New York Senator and career corruptocrat Chuck Schumer said, “I am one hundred percent in favor of Zohran Mamdani if that shrieking mob of naked blood-drenched zombies supports him, but if they would prefer to rampage down Fifth Avenue killing and devouring anyone who gets in their way, then I’m in favor of that instead. In other words, a lifetime of ideological pandering has left me a hollow doppelganger of the man God created me to be and I’ll basically do anything for just one more term in power before delivering the husk of what was once a human being into the hands of the Satanic overlord who owns the flaming ashes of my former soul.”
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On the other hand, shapely-but-evil New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed Mamdani enthusiastically, telling her supporters, “Men have sleep-walked into self-destruction while gazing at a hot rack like mine through all of human history, I don’t see why this mayoral election should be any different.”
Some journalists have temporarily roused themselves from the sleep of reason that produces monsters to report on some of Mamdani’s little peccadillos, like the fact that he’s a Jew-hating, Islamist-appeasing, anti-American dirtbag who once gave the finger to a statue of Christopher Columbus, and wants to defund the police, seize the means of production, transform the state of Israel into a rerun of the holocaust and reduce New York to a socialist slave-city on the order of 1970s Detroit.
But Mamdani answered those accusations in a charming speech to a vast collection of matrix-like pods that contained residents of Park Slope Brooklyn, who were happily living in a dream that the world was like it is in the New York Times while their brains were being drained of electricity in order to power the Democrat machine. Mamdani said, “Sure, I’ve got some ideas that would make New York City look like it had been trampled by a Stalinist Godzilla, but, you know, Ronald Reagan used to say that a person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally, and in the same way, a person who agrees with me 80 percent of the time will soon be lying in the gutter in a pool of his own vomit wishing he’d paid closer attention to that other 20 percent.”
The Park Slope residents greeted this speech with thunderous applause and then went back to dodging bullets in slow motion because they were dreaming they were in a New York Times editorial that said yes, Mamdani’s crime-infested New York would be riddled with gunfire, but don’t worry, just take this blue pill, and you’ll be able to dodge the bullets in slow motion.
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Intifada! Communism! Cannibal Rage Mobs! It’s Just Another NYC Election Season

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A new poll shows Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani holding a commanding 10-point lead in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race this week, with incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing in fourth place.
The Slingshot Strategies <a href="https://www.slingshotstrat.com/media/slingshot-mayoral-poll-general-election-7-9">poll</a>, conducted between July 2-6, showed socialist Mamdani capturing 35% of registered voters, with former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25%, Republican Curtis Sliwa at 14%, and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams trailing with just 11%.
Adams faces an uphill battle with a dismal 28% approval rating and 62% disapproval. By contrast, Mamdani enjoys a net favorable rating of +4 (40% favorable vs. 36% unfavorable), while even the scandal-plagued Andrew Cuomo outperforms Adams, with 44% viewing him favorably and 46% unfavorably.
Other polls have found similar results, including a pro-Adams <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/new-pro-adams-poll-still-has-nyc-mayor-trailing-cuomo-by-double-digits/">poll</a> that still showed Mamdani leading with 41%, followed by Cuomo at 26%, Adams at 16%, and Sliwa at 10%.
Adams&#8217; support has collapsed even among his traditional base, with only 16% of black respondents saying they would back the mayor in the general election, compared to 35% for Mamdani and 32% for Cuomo, according to the poll.
The current contest represents a significant fracturing of Democratic power, with incumbent Mayor Adams – who campaigned as a moderate, pro-police Democrat – now being challenged from both the far-Left in Mamdani and the establishment wing in Cuomo.
While Mamdani&#8217;s 35% support is far from a majority, Slingshot founding partner Evan Roth Smith <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">emphasized</a> to the New York Post that the electoral math looks increasingly difficult for Adams.
&#8220;The problem is the ballot is set. And the strongest Mamdani alternative in this poll is Andrew Cuomo, who just lost to him decisively in the Democratic primary,&#8221; Smith noted. “And the Mamdani alternative that seems to have the most momentum as a fresh alternative is Eric Adams, who’s polling barely in the double digits and seems to have lost credibility everywhere in the election.”
Adams has faced widespread dissatisfaction with his administration, which has faced multiple federal investigations and criticism over the handling of the migrant crisis and public safety issues.
Despite being a Democrat, Adams performs best among Republican voters, receiving 26% support compared to Mamdani&#8217;s 7%, although Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa leads that demographic with 43%.
“There’s simply not enough Republican support for someone who is a sitting Democratic mayor of New York,” Smith added. “So it’s really, really difficult when someone is polling at 11% and the ballot isn’t changing to see what the path to victory is.”
Mamdani, a 33-year-old Assemblyman from Queens, has positioned himself as an unapologetic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zohran-mamdani-says-he-has-many-critiques-of-capitalism?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Zohran+Mamdani+Says+He+Has+%E2%80%98Many+Critiques+Of+Capitalism%E2%80%99">socialist</a>. He has advocated for rent control, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and reallocating police funding to social services – policies that have raised concerns among moderate Democrats and the business community.
“You have a large number of largely white, largely outer borough homeowners who are not necessarily Democrats, who are skeptical of Mamdani,” Smith explained. “The problem is getting those voters together behind either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams seems to still be a pretty tall order, and becomes even more difficult since they’re both in the race.”
Cuomo and Adams have engaged in public <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/zohran-mamdani-leads-general-election-poll-00443469">feuding</a>, with each calling for the other to drop out to consolidate opposition against Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">won</a> the Democratic primary with 56% to Cuomo&#8217;s 44% in the final round of ranked-choice voting.
Adams’ campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro dismissed the poll in a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/eric-adams-nyc-mayoral-election-chances-are-under-water-poll/">statement</a> to the New York Post, saying, “just weeks ago, Andrew Cuomo was ahead in multiple polls and then went on to lose the primary by double digits.”
“The latest Slingshot poll is just another example of how out-of-touch and unreliable political polling has become,” he said.

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Mamdani Surges To 10-Point Lead In NYC Mayoral Race, Adams Craters To Fourth Place: Poll

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Speaking to attendees at the Claremont Institute over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance took aim at New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, explaining that he embodied all the contradictions within the American Left.
Referring to Mamdani as a “33-year-old communist running an insurgent campaign,” Vance posited that Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic mayoral primary revealed “interesting threads&#8221; that were &#8220;reflective of where the broader American Left is at this moment in time.”
Vance spoke of how President Donald Trump’s victory represented a “broad working-and-middle-class coalition,” while Mamdani’s coalition was “almost the inverse of that.”
Vance pointed out that Mamdani “won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young, highly educated New Yorkers, but he was weakest among black voters and weakest among those without a college degree.” He added that Mamdani “did particularly well in the Bangladeshi areas of New York, but he did particularly poorly with non-Bangladeshi Asian immigrants, particularly Chinese-Americans.”
“His victory was the product of a lot of young people who live reasonably comfortable lives, but see that their elite degrees aren’t really delivering what they expected, and so their own prospects with all the college debt may not in fact be greater than those of their parents,” he said.
“We have to be honest about where his coalition is,” Vance opined. “It is not the downtrodden. It is not poor Americans. It is not about dispossession. It’s about elite disaffection and elite anger. The party of highly educated, but downwardly mobile elites &#8230; they comprise a highly energetic activist base, but it’s important because it’s not just the elites, the college-educated New Yorkers, that base was supplemented by carefully selected ethnic blocs carved out of the electorate using identity politics as the knife.”
Vance noted that Mamdani’s desire to appeal to ethnic blocs was reflected in his “bizarre appeals to foreign politics, intended to signal to one particular group of New Yorkers or another.”
“Let us ask ourselves why is a mayoral candidate in our nation’s biggest city whining about banning Bibi Netanyahu, a country whose population is about the same size as that of New York, and threatening to arrest a foreign leader if he tries to come to New York City?” he asked. “Why is a New York mayoral candidate attacking Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, as a war criminal? Why is he talking about ‘globalizing the intifada’?”
“But what might seem like a contradiction makes a little bit of sense if you peel back the onion,” he speculated. “Consider a movement that rails against the billionaire class, despite the fact that the billionaire class remains firmly in the corner of the modern Left; a movement that idolizes foreign religions, even as it rejects the teachings of those faiths. It rails, this new modern Left against white people, even as many of its funders and its grassroots activists are privileged whites themselves.”
“What unites Islamists, gender-studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites, and Big Pharma lobbyists &#8230; isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx; it’s hatred,” he stated. “They hate the people in this room. They hate the President of the United States, and most of all, they hate the people who voted for that President of the United States in the last election in November. This is the animating principle of the American far-Left.”
“That’s why Mamdani himself is such an appealing instrument to the Left,” Vance said. “He captures so many of the movement’s apparent contradictions in a single human being; a guy who describes the Palestinian cause as central to his identity yet holds views like abortion on demand or using taxpayer-funded money to fund transgender surgeries for minors. These views, of course, are completely incomprehensible on the streets of Gaza. This guy represents that contradiction.”
“He’s trying to tear something down and he’s very effective at articulating all of the things that the far-Left hates in modern America,” he concluded.
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UNITED BY HATRED: Vance Rips Mamdani, Exposes The American Left’s Contradictions

JD Vance

Former CNN host Chris Cuomo slammed the Democratic Party after “open socialist” Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=7&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">defeated</a> his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday.
Cuomo told viewers on his NewsNation program Wednesday night, “Thank you very much for all the kind words about my brother. I didn’t cover the mayoral election or even comment on it here at NewsNation for obvious reasons, and my feelings about my brother and what he should do now, those are personal, not professional. So, suffice it to say, I love and support my brother, and I’m not worried about him.”
Cuomo revealed that he was not stunned by the outcome.
“It was a low turnout race that people did not think could go the way it did. The enthusiasm and turnout energy were overweighted for the more extreme candidates, as is often the case, and that’s one of the problems with our binary system and with our closed primaries,&#8221; Cuomo said. “Not to mention, and contrary to what was sold by his opponents, Andrew’s no establishment guy and the party was not loving that he ran, but that’s his case to make, okay?”
Gov. Cuomo, 67, who has been elected to that role three times, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-andrew-cuomo-to-resign">resigned</a> in disgrace in 2021 following multiple allegations of sexual harassment by female employees, making him a pariah in the eyes of many primary voters and the Democratic establishment.
Throughout his campaign, Mamdani, 33, a state assemblyman, advocated for defunding the police, rent control expansion, government-sponsored grocery stores, higher taxes, and $65 million in taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” trans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-mayoral-hopeful-would-go-all-in-on-transing-the-kids-to-the-tune-of-65-million?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=New+York+Mayoral+Hopeful+Would+Go+All-In+On+Transing+The+Kids%2C+To+The+Tune+Of+%2465+Million">procedures</a> for adults and children.
Chris Cuomo <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/chris-cuomo-declares-democratic-party-dead-after-brother-loses-nyc-mayoral-primary-tacitly-supporting-extreme-islamism/">blasted</a> the Democratic Party for its “extremism,” declaring the party all but “dead” in his eyes.
“The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode. We are now, on both sides, in a period of extremism,” Cuomo said. “The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you’re seeing an identical dynamic on the Left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.”
“For the Right, it’s migrants. For the Left, it’s Jews. It’s fundamentalist Christians dominating the Right. It’s fundamentalist Islamists making headway on the Left. I know that doesn’t sound like Democrats, but that party is dead. What it will be reborn as, we’ll see,” Cuomo added.
Mamdani has stated that he doesn&#8217;t believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” and recorded a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/socialist-nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-once-rapped-about-his-love-for-hamas-teror-funding-group-holy-land-five/">rap song</a> expressing “love” to convicted Hamas financiers. His October 7 statement notably focused on “ending the occupation” without mentioning Hamas&#8217;s massacre of Israeli civilians.
“What we’re seeing now is that there are many in America who are adopting and adapting to fundamentalism. The outcome in this election wasn’t about affordability or about real change. The winner is an open socialist, and the Democratic Party is now just that: socialistic. But be clear, this is a fictional fix for very real frustrations,” Cuomo concluded.
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Andrew Cuomo declined to say if he would run in the November general election as an independent for the Fight and Deliver Party, which he formed for this race.
Should the ex-governor enter the race as an independent, that would make the race a five-person contest between Cuomo, Mamdani, incumbent Democrat Mayor Eric Adams (running as an independent this cycle), Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, a talk show host, and independent Jim Walden, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

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‘That Party Is Dead’: Chris Cuomo Blasts Democrats After Brother’s Defeat To ‘Open Socialist’

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You finally did it, you maniacs! You blew it up.
We are now living at the very end of “Planet of the Apes,” when stunned Americans wander the beaches of New York City and find the Statue of Liberty half-buried in the sand. That’s because Zohran Mamdani, a communist pro-Jihadi insane person who seems to have been bred in the laboratory at Columbia University just to be a leftist pastiche, is now the mayoral frontrunner in New York City because he won the Democratic primary last night in stunning fashion over the disgraced former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html">The New York Times</a>:
<blockquote>Zohran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York on Tuesday night, building leads so commanding that Cuomo actually conceded.</blockquote>
Cuomo said, 
<blockquote>I&#8217;m very proud of the campaign that we ran, and I&#8217;m proud of the effort that we put forth, and I&#8217;m proud of the issues that we discussed. But tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mondani’s night, and he put together a great campaign, and he touched young people and inspired them and moved them and got them to come out and vote. And he really ran a highly impactful campaign. I called him; I congratulated him. I applaud him sincerely for his effort and let&#8217;s give him a round of applause.</blockquote>
So, Sad Sack Cuomo now wants to run as an Independent. We will find out whether that is real or whether that is not real, because after he registers as an independent — and now the mayoral race becomes Eric Adams, who’s running as an independent, and Cuomo running as independent, against Mamdani, who will be the Democratic nominee — Mamdani is pretty clearly the front-runner.
The Times continued: “Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist from Queens, tapped into a current and current of anxiety around New York City&#8217;s growing affordability crisis and his joyful campaign” — it&#8217;s always joyful for The New York Times. When you are a socialist nutjob, that means that you are filled with “joy,” so much “joy,” and anybody who accurately characterizes the state of New York City as not particularly good, that person is filled with rage.
They did the same routine about Kamala Harris. You remember she was so “filled with joy” and Donald Trump was so “filled with rage.”
It turns out that Trump&#8217;s perspective on reality was significantly more linked to reality than Kamala’s perspective.
Apparently, Cuomo was filled with “rage” and “despair,” but Mamdani was filled with joy.
There&#8217;ll be so much “joy” at these state-run supermarkets. I&#8217;m not kidding when I say that. That was one of the Mamdani proposals: he wants the city to run supermarkets because he believes that the profit motive is creating bad grocery choices in New York City, which is psychotic. Socialists have never been good at the distribution of food. That&#8217;s why they have bread lines in socialist countries. And Mamdani is not just a left-leaning Norwegian type. Mamdani is someone who believes in full-scale nationalization, the government running the means of production.
When we say he&#8217;s a communist, he&#8217;s an actual, honest-to-God communist.
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I think the most important thing here to remember is that young Democrats are basically sixth-grade voters in your middle-school election.
If you ever ran for student body president in middle school, you will remember that if you ran a normal campaign pledging, for example, that you were going to clean up the gym better, and then some kid came in and said, “I pledge free ice cream and no homework for everyone,” all the kids voted for that idiot.
That&#8217;s New York City when it comes to all of the Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z voters, particularly white people.
If you look at the voting map of New York City from Tuesday night, you will notice something very funny. Everyone who actually has to live in the parts of the city that are not the richest parts of the city voted against him. 
Mamdani is simply an essential boiling down of every luxury belief that upper-class, college-educated white people hold, and those beliefs are insane.
You wonder why I&#8217;m very much in favor of President Trump effectively wrecking the universities?
This is why. They have become indoctrination centers for Zohran Mamdani and his voters.
Blame this on the upper-class, college-educated white people. That&#8217;s who did this. It shows you that college makes people stupid.
As a resident of Florida since 2020, let me say this to all the high-net-worth individuals in New York City, all the people who pay taxes, all the productive people in New York City with investment firms and financial investments: We&#8217;re here for you, down here in Florida. We&#8217;re here.
But leave your values at the border because your stupid values bought you this. So don&#8217;t come down to my state and wreck my state. We&#8217;ll be checking ID as you come down into my state. We&#8217;ll be deporting all the New York illegal immigrants who come into the state of Florida if you come down here and you bring your Democratic crap politics to my state.
But if you&#8217;re coming down here as an act of contrition and repentance, noticing that your city has completely destroyed itself, noticing that your city is now trending toward full-scale socialism, wrecking all of the things that made New York City great, all of the investment, all of the creativity, all of the innovation, in favor of redistributionist nonsense — if you&#8217;re coming down here and you are simply bringing your productivity and your innovation and yes, your wealth, down to Florida from New York, come on down. We&#8217;re here for you. We&#8217;ll be here for you in your time of need.
And yes, the real estate prices may be a little bit higher since that&#8217;s your penalty for not having seen what was coming in the city that you helped to wreck over a period of time.

Mayoral Candidate For New York Zohran Mamdani Holds Primary Election Night Party

You Finally Did It, You Maniacs

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On the surface, it might seem like &#8220;wokeness&#8221; and the extreme excesses of Left-wing ideology have been defeated, or at least neutralized. But that&#8217;s not the case. The most destructive and anti-American impulses of the Left have not been defeated. They haven&#8217;t suddenly realized the errors of their ways.
Instead, like a malignant cancer, they have mutated. They&#8217;ve identified different ways to undermine the foundations of this country. And in the process, they have become much more dangerous and ultimately much more deadly. That’s not to say that we haven’t had any real victories against wokeness, or leftism, in recent years. We have. But the battle is very, very far from over. Cut off one tentacle of this giant squid-like beast, and it grows another.
That&#8217;s the only way to understand what took place yesterday in New York&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">mayoral primary</a>. Andrew Cuomo has conceded the race — which means that, barring an upset in the general election from a candidate like Eric Adams, a 33-year-old Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zohran Mamdani is going to be the next mayor of New York City. Yes, a foreign nepo baby and failed rapper who wants to nationalize the grocery stores and the rental properties, while also destroying the police department in the name of “queer liberation,” and forcing taxpayers to fund sex-changes for children, is the man New Yorkers apparently want to put in charge.
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Every aspect of his platform is un-American and demented and totally insane, but it&#8217;s worth spending a little time specifically on his brilliant idea to create government-run grocery stores, which we touched on yesterday. We can use just this one example, this one part of his platform, to show how utterly foolish the whole thing is. So, in this country, the typical grocery store has a profit margin of roughly 2 to 3%. They&#8217;re not colluding with other stores to extract some insane profits, in violation of antitrust law. Instead, the way grocery stores work is by leveraging economies of scale to generate a lot of very small profits from a lot of individual sales, which add up over time. They&#8217;re only functional because they&#8217;re efficient, which is the opposite of how the government works. And even then, they&#8217;re barely turning a profit on every sale. If you’re some kind of greedy capitalist Gordon Gecko like figure, the grocery business is not the kind of business you’d get into.
So if you want to create government-run grocery stores, then you might as well create government-run restaurants and technology companies and car dealerships, too. You might as well nationalize the entire economy, and turn the United States into Venezuela. After all, of all the things you can nationalize, grocery stores are the most extreme. As usual, radical leftists don’t follow the slippery slope trajectory in a neat and gradual way. The start with the most extreme thing, and work backwards from there.
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If this conversation sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because Kamala Harris also ran on the idea of price controls for grocery stores. Which is just socialism, of course. It was rejected by voters in every swing state because it doesn&#8217;t work. But it just won in New York, thanks largely to well-off voters who will never need to shop in a government-run grocery store. That&#8217;s why the blue-collar workers didn&#8217;t vote for this communist. They saw what happened when San Francisco, and Chicago, and every other jurisdiction on the planet voted for people like this. It ends in widespread poverty and destruction, every single time. And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen soon in our largest city.
There are broader implications here as well, beyond the disaster that&#8217;s about to befall New Yorkers. Whatever happens in the general election, it&#8217;s safe to say that, less than 25 years after 9/11, New York has been conquered. All of the trillions of dollars we&#8217;ve spent on fighting &#8220;the war on terror,&#8221; and all of the American lives that have been lost here and abroad, have not prevented an anti-American Muslim from taking control of America&#8217;s largest city. We&#8217;ve spent the last 25 years bringing &#8220;freedom&#8221; and &#8220;democracy&#8221; to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I&#8217;m so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why. And keep in mind: this guy is a &#8220;legal immigrant.&#8221; We allowed him into this country and granted him citizenship, even though he doesn&#8217;t share any of our values. That&#8217;s how seriously we&#8217;ve &#8220;protected the homeland&#8221; after 9/11. We&#8217;ve rolled out the red carpet for foreign nationals who are going to destroy us from within.
If New York City were a country, its GDP would rank it around the 12th largest globally. And now there&#8217;s a very, very good chance it&#8217;s going to be in the hands of a man who hasn&#8217;t even been a citizen for a decade, who fakes his accents, and sees capitalism — the economic engine that has single-handedly prevented this country from becoming another Uganda — as an enemy to be vanquished. This is a man whose own mother has reportedly said: &#8220;He is not an American at all.” In that way, he has a lot of company in New York City, where 40% — 40% — of the city’s population wasn&#8217;t born in this country.
Hearing all of this, you might say — well, New York has always been a Left-wing cesspool. It&#8217;s always been a little dysfunctional. But that&#8217;s not true. A few decades ago, only around 20% of the city was born in a foreign country. Now the number is close to double that figure. And what do you know? Hot on the heels of demographic replacement, New York is poised to have a third world mayor. The slogans are true. Demographics are destiny. Import the third world, become the third world. It’s all true. And New York will learn that when they have a mayor who proudly <a href="https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1937706224302063937">tweeted:</a> &#8220;Queer liberation means defund the police.&#8221; He also called the NYPD: &#8220;racist, anti-queer and a major threat to public safety.&#8221; College-educated New Yorkers, as well as foreign nationals, are the reason he won. There&#8217;s no debate about that. Here&#8217;s one exit poll, to give you an idea:
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As you can see, New Yorkers with the lowest incomes were the ones who rejected Zohran Mamdani. You might think that the poorest voters would support the socialist, but that&#8217;s not the case. That&#8217;s probably because, unlike college-educated New Yorkers who were taught to despise his country and leech as much as possible, poorer New Yorkers didn’t undergo all of the same brainwashing.
As a result, very soon, New Yorkers will discover that &#8220;stop and frisk&#8221; wasn&#8217;t actually so bad. The alternative is lawlessness and socialism, which will trigger a death spiral in New York. Wealthy New Yorkers, who would be forced to fund all of the social experiments this new mayor wants to undertake, will simply leave. And once that happens, New York will no longer have a GDP that rivals most other countries in the world. We will witness, in real-time, the slow and managed destruction of a world-class city. Another one.
And that&#8217;s not something to celebrate, regardless of your politics, as tempting as it may be. I wish that I could just say &#8220;good riddance&#8221; to all of the major American cities that have fallen into decay and disorder thanks to their awful leaders and the suicidal idiots who elect them. But as an American, I want these cities to be great. They used to be. They could be again. That&#8217;s why I have so much contempt for the parasites who&#8217;ve destroyed them. Those are American cities. That means they&#8217;re our cities, too. And these morons ruined them.
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Suddenly the fall of &#8220;Pride month&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem quite as significant. The election of a Muslim socialist to be the next mayor of NYC is very clear evidence that &#8220;wokeness&#8221; and Left-wing ideology is still very much alive in this country. Say what you will about Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s disastrous handling of COVID, and all of his weaknesses as a candidate. There&#8217;s still no other explanation for what happened last night. This primary demonstrates, once again, that the culture war continues. It just moves to new battlefields. This is how Leftism operates. It shape shifts and rebrands and grows new tentacles. Finds new Trojan Horses. But it&#8217;s always the same enemy underneath it all.
And as New Yorkers are about to discover, the enemy is even more potent — and more capable of ruining millions of lives — than it&#8217;s ever been. New York, and the entire country, has just suffered a catastrophic blow. And if we&#8217;re going to preserve what&#8217;s left of America, we have to, as I’ve been saying, return the focus to what&#8217;s happening within our own borders.
The invaders are winning. That&#8217;s not easy to admit, but it&#8217;s true. They are a far greater threat to our sovereignty and our security than any country that&#8217;s 6,000 miles away. And unless we want the entire country to suffer the same fate as New York, we have to recognize that fact. We have to treat these foreign socialists like the mortal enemy that they are. After last night, we can either choose to fight, or we can become Uganda.
Voters in New York — many of whom aren&#8217;t even American — have just made their choice. Now the rest of us have to stop wasting our time obsessing over whatever&#8217;s happening across the globe, and make our choice as clear as we possibly can.

NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Hosts Election Night Event

New Yorkers Embrace Their Own Destruction By Voting For Socialist Muslim Mayor

Matt Walsh

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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani received overwhelming support from many of New York&#8217;s wealthiest neighborhoods in Tuesday&#8217;s primary, while working-class voters earning under $50,000 rejected him by nearly 20 points in favor of ex-governor Andrew Cuomo — a margin that could increase.
Scandal-plagued ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">called</a> Mamdani on Tuesday night to congratulate the Uganda-born immigrant on his victory.
“Tonight was not our night,” Cuomo said. “Tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night.”
Mandani emerged from the first round of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary with roughly 44% of the vote, while Cuomo came in second with 36%.
According to election results <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-map.html">published</a> by the New York Times, Mamdani won counties with a median income of more than $117,000 by an average of 13 points, while Cuomo won counties with a median income below $62,000 by 13 points.
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— Hunter📈🌈📊 (@StatisticUrban) <a href="https://twitter.com/StatisticUrban/status/1937715576312328454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cuomo trounced Mamdani by nearly 20 points among black voters, while Mamdani won white voters by 5 points, Hispanic voters by 6, and Asian-Americans by 15.
Mamdani’s margin of victory in wealthier counties is likely to increase after several rounds of ranked-choice tabulation conclude throughout the week.
Given their close relationship throughout the campaign and similar policy platforms, votes from city Comptroller Brad Lander, who received 11% of first-round votes, will likely lean in his favor.
Many of New York’s most affluent neighborhoods <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/24/us/elections/results-new-york-city-mayor-primary.html">went</a> for Mamdani, including Cobble Hill (45% Mamdani, 16% Cuomo), Park Slope (45% Mamdani, 13% Cuomo), and Brooklyn Heights (36% Mamdani, 24% Cuomo). Lander also won several wealthy precincts in wealthy counties, according to the Times’ results.
Cuomo overwhelmingly won several working-class neighborhoods in the South Bronx and Eastern Brooklyn, winning Far Rockaway by a dominant 58 points, and Longwood by 27. Cuomo beat Mamdani in some wealthy neighborhoods, particularly in the Upper East Side and Tribeca.
Mamdani, throughout his campaign, advocated for defunding the police, rent control expansion, government-sponsored grocery stores, higher taxes, and $65 million in taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” trans procedures for adults and children.
Mamdani&#8217;s proposals are projected to cost the already cash-strapped city more than $10 billion.
Mamdani’s victory follows his effective use of social media to promote his platform and strategic partnerships with other far-Left Democrats. His campaign capitalized on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) endorsement to build momentum ahead of the June 24 primary.
Andrew Cuomo declined to say if he would run in the November general election as an independent for the Fight and Deliver Party, which he formed for this race.
Should the ex-governor enter the race as an independent, that would make the race a five-person contest between Cuomo, Mamdani, incumbent Democrat Mayor Eric Adams (running as an independent), Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, a talk show host, and independent Jim Walden, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Campaigns In NYC On Primary Day

Socialist Hero Zohran Mamdani Owes His Victory To Rich New Yorkers, Not The Working Class

Andrew Cuomo’s scandal-plagued political career came to an unceremonious end Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly ranked their former governor below a 33-year-old socialist who wants to abolish the police and establish city-run grocery stores.
Zohran Mamdani, an Assemblyman from Queens, emerged from the first round of New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary with around 44% of the vote. Cuomo — who resigned as governor in 2021 amid allegations that he sexually harassed female staffers — came in second, with around 36% of votes. He called to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share">congratulate</a> Mamdani on his victory late Tuesday night, and did not say if he still plans to appear on the ballot for the Fight And Deliver Party, which he formed for this race.
“Tonight was not our night,” Cuomo said. “Tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night.”
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a progressive stalwart who recently got himself <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-nyc-mayoral-candidate-arrested-by-ice-at-immigration-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> at an anti-ICE protest, secured 11% of votes, placing third. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who sidestepped the Democratic primary entirely to run as an independent, told reporters today that he voted in the primary: for himself, all five times.
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Mayor Adams casts his vote at PS 81 in the Democratic primary.
He said he’d vote for “Eric Adams 1-5,” writing himself in instead of casting his ballot for one of the candidates (he’s opted out of the primary).
I asked if he’d vote for <a href="https://twitter.com/OsseChi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@OsseChi</a>, and he shot a v skeptical look <a href="https://t.co/Ct5csrPTna" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Ct5csrPTna</a>
— Josie Stratman (@JosieStratman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JosieStratman/status/1937534539036770450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Mamdani&#8217;s clear, early lead came as a bit of a shock following polls that put him and Cuomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mixed-polls-major-stakes-experts-decode-the-tight-nyc-mayor-battle?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=17&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Mixed+Polls%2C+Major+Stakes%3A+Experts+Decode+The+Tight+NYC+Mayor+Battle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neck-and-neck</a> in the days leading up to the election. An Emerson College poll released Monday had Cuomo leading Mamdani by a slim 35% to 32% margin in first-choice votes, but found that Mamdani pulled ahead after several rounds. But a Marist University poll conducted a week prior showed Cuomo winning both in the first round and after several rounds of ranked choice.
Tuesday’s election marks the beginning of the end of a colorful and contentious primary race between 11 candidates. New York City uses ranked choice voting, in which voters select up to five candidates and rank them in order of preference. Election officials <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/24/new-york-city-mayoral-results-timeline-00420347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won’t declare a winner</a> until one candidate wins more than 50% of first choice votes.
If no candidate receives a majority of votes on the first ballot, each voter’s last-ranked candidate is eliminated, and the votes are recalculated. It took two weeks and eight rounds of counting for Adams to clinch the nomination, though Mamdani will likely clinch the nomination sooner, given his lead. The New York City Board of Elections is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor/72784e32-1220-58bc-81a7-3417e2191df3?smid=url-share">expected</a> to deliver a final result in a week.
Regardless of who ultimately wins the Democratic nomination, Cuomo, Mamdani, and Adams are set to be on the ballot in November’s general election. They’ll face off against Republican Curtis Silwa, a talk show host, and independent Jim Walden, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Cuomo, still mired by sexual harassment allegations and his botched handling of the COVID pandemic, became an early foil for his more progressive opponents. Mamdani encouraged his supporters to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nycs-mayoral-race-takes-sharp-turn-putting-muslim-socialist-neck-and-neck-with-cuomo">donate</a> to rival progressive Adrienne Adams&#8217; campaign. Last month, Mamdani and Lander cross-endorsed each other, urging voters not to rank Cuomo.
True to his pledge, on Tuesday, Lander <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor/ea3e46b9-da7f-55b5-a471-097d6c3d382b?smid=url-share">told guests</a> at his election night party that &#8220;with our help, Zohran Mamdani will be the Democratic nominee&#8221; and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor/73bff53c-fb61-587f-b0e1-a4d68dea84a6?smid=url-share">reportedly</a> led a &#8220;goodbye Cuomo&#8221; chant at his election night party, according to the New York Times.
While none of the Democratic mayoral candidates cross-endorsed Cuomo, the former mayor racked up <a href="https://www.andrewcuomo.com/endorsements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsements</a> from big-name Democrats like Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Mamdani has the backing of progressive stalwarts like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and a slew of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/nyregion/mamdani-nyc-emily-ratajkowski-bowen-yang.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities</a> including Emily Ratajkowski and Cynthia Nixon, who <a href="https://x.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1937526396521218398" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Cuomo a “TRUMP BILLIONAIRE-FUNDED SEX PREDATOR.”
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Brad Lander #2
Adrienne Adams/Scott Stringer/Michael Blake or Zellnor Myrie #3 to #5.
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Mamdani, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/nyregion/nyc-democratic-primary-election-mayor/6e0bf3b3-ff37-5309-a4ee-79e20860243c?smid=url-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won a majority</a> of early votes, leaned into his socialism throughout the campaign. He <a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> to freeze rent, establish city-run grocery stores, and devote $65 million to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-mayoral-hopeful-would-go-all-in-on-transing-the-kids-to-the-tune-of-65-million?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=37&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=New+York+Mayoral+Hopeful+Would+Go+All-In+On+Transing+The+Kids%2C+To+The+Tune+Of+%2465+Million" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender procedures</a> for both kids and adults. Mamdani has also promised to make school lunches, city buses, and childcare free, and to establish a “Department of Community Safety” to “prevent violence before it happens” — which critics say is simply an effort to defund the police.
He was not the only candidate with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-top-five-craziest-policy-proposals-from-nyc-mayor-candidates?author=Catherine+Maxwell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=21&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Here+Are+The+Top+Five+Craziest+Policy+Proposals+From+NYC+Mayor+Candidates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">radical policy platform</a>. Lander called for New York City to become a national abortion hub, and proposed solving the city’s housing crisis by paving over — and building apartments on — municipal golf courses. Assemblyman Michael Blake called to dispatch therapists to respond to 911 calls in lieu of police. And State Senator Zellnor Myrie called for the city to impose anti-racism curricula in its kindergartens.
Also on the ballot Tuesday was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. A soft-on-crime Soros prosecutor best known for his relentless pursuit of President Donald Trump, Bragg easily defeated his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/nyregion/alvin-bragg-manhattan-district-attorney.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sole challenger</a> to secure the Democratic nomination.

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Andrew Cuomo Falls To Radical Socialist Zohran Mamdani In NYC Mayoral Primary

Former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 67,  and self-declared Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, 33, are facing off on Tuesday in the New York Democratic mayoral primary, with a final poll suggesting the Uganda-born lawmaker could topple the veteran politician through ranked-choice voting.
Steve Kornacki, a national political correspondent and election analyst for NBC News, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/steve-kornacki-breaking-state-new-yorks-mayoral-race-primary-day-rcna214579">paints</a> a nuanced picture of Tuesday’s primary vote, emphasizing that only two major public polls have been conducted in the lead-up to the primary, each showing vastly different results.
The Emerson College/PIX11/The Hill <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-city-mayoral-poll-june/">poll</a> shows Cuomo leading Mamdani by a slim 35% to 32% margin in first-choice votes, but after multiple rounds of ranked-choice tabulation, Mamdani overtakes the former governor to win 52% to 48%. There are 11 Democrats on the primary ballot.
A Marist University poll <a href="https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Marist-Poll_June-NYC-NOS-and-Tables_202506162130-2.pdf">conducted</a> a week prior has Cuomo leading 38% to 27% in the initial round and 55% to 45% after several rounds of ranked choice.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed based on voters’ next choices until someone wins a majority.
The polls diverge in two major areas, Kornacki explains: performance among black voters and the distribution of City Comptroller Brad Lander’s votes after he is eliminated in the ranked choice tabulation.
The Marist poll showed Cuomo with a 52-point advantage among black voters in the final round, while the more recent Emerson survey indicates Mamdani has closed that gap significantly, winning 38% of black voters in the final tabulation.
Lander’s projected elimination had little impact on the final round of the Marist poll, as Cuomo’s lead diminished only slightly from 13 to 10 points. In contrast, Emerson’s final round shows Lander’s votes propelling Mamdani to a 4-point lead over Cuomo after trailing in the prior round.
Brad Lander, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-nyc-mayoral-candidate-arrested-by-ice-at-immigration-court">arrested</a> at an immigration court protest, could emerge as the race&#8217;s kingmaker.
Lander and Mamdani formed a strategic alliance last week, with each candidate asking supporters to include the other in their ranked ballots while excluding Cuomo — a move that explains why Mamdani gains substantially if Lander is eliminated in the tabulation process.
Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1937185148736618695">points out</a>, “[O]ne of the nuances of RCV (ranked-choice voting) is that negative campaigning can backfire just because it puts your name more in voters&#8217; minds and therefore they&#8217;ll list you *somewhere* on their ballot.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m hearing things I don&#8217;t like about this Zohran guy, I&#8217;d better make sure to list him below [preferred choices] on my ballot’ is a lot *better* for Zohran than if voters don&#8217;t list him at all. Cuomo may benefit from this effect too,” Silver <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1937185150611357725">adds</a>.
Kornacki predicts the tallying will likely continue past Tuesday, and the primary result might not even indicate the next mayor of deep blue New York City.
But no matter who wins the Democratic primary, both Cuomo and Mamdani are expected to appear on the general election ballot. Cuomo has already created the &#8220;Fight and Deliver Party,&#8221; which will allow him to appear on the November ballot regardless of today&#8217;s outcome, while Mamdani is poised to be the candidate of the Working Families Party in the event of defeat.
Meanwhile, current Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is running as an independent in the general election, while Republicans are poised to nominate Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. The potential addition of both Cuomo and Mamdani further crowds the field for the general election in November.
Mamdani, who currently represents parts of Queens in the state assembly, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-top-five-craziest-policy-proposals-from-nyc-mayor-candidates?author=Catherine+Maxwell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Here+Are+The+Top+Five+Craziest+Policy+Proposals+From+NYC+Mayor+Candidates">advocated</a> for defunding the police, rent control expansion, government-sponsored grocery stores, higher taxes, and $65 million in taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” trans procedures for adults and children.
Betting markets have the race in a dead heat as of Tuesday morning, leaning slightly in favor of Mamdani after the new Emerson poll, which accurately predicted the <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/nyc-mayor-2021-adams-stays-ahead-but-rank-choice-voting-closes-gap-for-wiley-and-garcia">outcome</a> of the 2021 primary, showed Mamdani taking the lead.

Mamdani/Cuomo

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Ranked Choice Voting

With the Democratic primary in the New York City Mayoral election only a day away, the competition for who will likely be in charge of the largest city in the country is reaching a boiling point. The two front runners are Andrew Cuomo, former New York state Governor who resigned in disgrace after multiple scandals, and Zohran Mamdani, a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America who seems ready to burn the city to the ground to become king of the ashes.
Andrew Cuomo was a horrific governor of New York State. He pushed radical, far-Left agendas on a variety of issues, from gun control to abortion to climate change. He raised taxes, demonized and prosecuted his political opponents. He also oversaw a mass exodus from the state. And yet, he is the best chance New York Democrats have of avoiding complete ruin.
Zohran Mamdani, on the other hand, is the epitome of an ignorant, spoiled millennial who appears to have read the Wikipedia entry on Karl Marx and never looked back. If he were white, he would assert his identity with a half dozen facial piercings and by dying his hair blue.
Born in Uganda to Indian parents, Mamdani is a silver-spoon socialist who hates capitalism, hates the West, and is pushing policies that will destroy New York City and the surrounding areas.
Mamdani’s policy platform on his <a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/">campaign website</a> reads like a 6th grader running for class president who promises free pizza for lunch and unlimited recess for all. He wants to freeze rent and build affordable housing, which is a mutually exclusive proposition. If landlords cannot make money on their properties, then investment in new properties dries up. If new properties, like Class 2 apartment buildings, dry up, then a significant portion of tax revenue to the city disappears, leaving no money for the city to invest in “affordable” housing. Rent control has failed everywhere it’s been tried because people don’t leave their apartments. The prices on all other apartments then skyrocket to make up for the shortfalls as a result. 
Mamdani wants to build a “Department of Community Safety,” which is socialist lingo for defunding the police. He wants to pull money from the police budget and give it to social workers who will be ill-equipped to deal with the myriad problems. So the issues that arise from this are two-fold. First, you have fewer police officers. The policemen who are left will then need to use more aggressive tactics to ensure order, leading to more confrontations with the community, leading to more unrest and crime. Second, New Yorkers are then left with unqualified, unarmed civilians dealing with severe issues in the worst parts of the city. When they find themselves in over their heads — and they will — they will slow their work down to focus on the few cases they can handle and ignore the rest, leaving mentally unstable people on the streets for the general public to worry about.
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Mamdani also proposes a network of city-owned grocery stores. This plan is straight out of the communist playbook. In his TikTok video promoting the idea, Mamdani says that grocery stores are too expensive. His proposal will simultaneously increase the overhead costs of grocery stores via property costs, congestion pricing, adding to delivery costs, and green new deal policies that increase the costs of electricity and maintenance. He will undercut pricing until other, independent stores can’t compete and will be forced to close, leaving only city-owned grocery stores. Then the stores themselves will either have to skyrocket the prices, have little to no inventory, or be massively subsidized by taxpayer dollars, creating another redistribution scheme.
His proposal on childcare? Free childcare, of course. Get the kids early and keep them forever, that’s the socialist motto. Once again, no plans on how to pay for this.
Mamdani also wants free bussing around the city, which brings in approximately $1.2 billion in revenue for the <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2024/03/MTA.pdf">MTA</a>. Other, saner people would actually talk about prosecuting <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/05/cracking-down-fare-evasion-new-yorks-subways-and-buses/396821/">fare evasion</a>, which costs $350-700 million per year and forces the rest of the public to pick up the monetary slack, but Mamdani actually wants to reward the criminals and say that everyone gets free bussing. Of course, he also claims that this means that buses will be safer and cleaner to ride and everyone will love them, when in reality, this means that they will become mobile homeless shelters or overcrowded nightmares.
The gaslighting by Mamdani is shockingly brazen. Recently, he touted his free bussing proposal while riding the Staten Island Ferry. He claimed on social media that since the ferry is free, why can’t bussing be free? Either he doesn’t know that the ferry costs well over <a href="https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2024/03/MTA.pdf">$100 million</a> per year to operate while the bus system costs over $4 billion per year, or is assuming that his audience is too dumb to put that together. Either way, it doesn’t matter to Mamdani, because to a socialist, everything can be paid for just because they say it can.
How will Mamdani pay for all of his proposals? You guessed it, he will raise taxes.
All of these proposals come directly from Mamdani’s campaign website and should concern every responsible New Yorker. It’s his opinions and views on Israel and the Jews, however, that should concern them even more.
His defenders will, of course, claim that he doesn’t hate Jews — and anti-Zionist Leftist Jews from “IfNotNow” and “Jewish Voice For Peace” will line up around the block to take pictures with him to prove that he’s not anti-Semitic. But that’s all a sham.
Mamdani was the sponsor of the ‘<a href="https://www.notonourdime.com/">Not On Our Dime</a>’ act in Albany, one of the first bills he proposed. It would empower the Attorney General to shut down any non-profit (which includes any synagogue) that gave charity to any entity in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories.” Now, he would claim that he means Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, but everyone knows that the pro-Hamasniks believe that all of Israel is truly the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” They literally wear t-shirts that say exactly that.
Mamdani also does not believe Israel should exist as a Jewish state. So the standard that applies to the 27 Muslim, 13 Christian, or two Buddhist countries does not apply to the only Jewish state?
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During the recent Democratic mayoral debate, when asked specifically if Israel should exist as a Jewish state, Mamdani replied, “I believe Israel can exist as a state with equal rights.” His statement ignores the fact that Israel offers equal rights for all its citizens, that Arabs serve in the Israeli government, on courts, and any other setting they wish to. In fact, Israel has far more equality than Mamdani’s birth country of Uganda.
So, Mamdani wants to shut down every Jewish non-profit or synagogue, thinks the Jewish state should be eradicated, and we’re supposed to believe he doesn&#8217;t hate the Jews?
This couldn’t come at a more important time. Recently, Molotov cocktails were thrown at Jews in Boulder, Colorado, for the crime of wanting to free Jewish hostages. Several weeks ago, two young people were shot in Washington, D.C., for the crime of attending an Israeli event. Students in New York City can’t get to classes, the streets have been blocked, and lives have been ruined. Will this mayoral hopeful have an interest in directing what remains of his police force to protect the Jews who live in his city, or will he publish a trite statement on social media and turn a blind eye?
Now we’re seeing riots in Los Angeles and around the country as deranged Leftists take on ICE agents. The president activated the National Guard to prevent a return to the summer of 2020. Will Mamdani stoke the same fires as Democrats in California have, calling them a “mostly peaceful protests” while the fires burn? Will he throw fuel on those fires?
This election could be a breaking point for New York City. Everything that can be done to prevent Mamdani from winning must be done right now. The future of New York is in the hands of the voters. If they sit this one out, they only have themselves to blame.
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Moshe Hill is a political analyst, columnist for the Queens Jewish Link, and is currently running for the County Legislature in Nassau County, New York.
A version of this article was originally published in the Queens Jewish Link.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Comrade Mamdani: Meet NYC’s Mayoral Candidate Who Hates Cops And Capitalism

Democrats have been wondering what has happened to their party. 
Why is it that Donald Trump has been elected twice in a three-election span? Why is it that the Democrats are currently riding in the 20% range with regard to their popularity in American life? Where did Democrats go wrong?
When you look at the public figures who are being put forward by the Left as the most salient, the most important, the most brilliant thinkers, the people who need to lead the country, they are all from Manbun McSoy Boy’s neck of the woods.
All of them.
The AOC self-congratulatory Democratic Socialists of America wing of the Democratic Party — people who have barely held a job, with a huge percentage of them getting a college education on the dime of their parents, the vast majority of whom are white — are taking over the Democratic Party.
The luxury beliefs that are held by white, college educated liberals are at complete odds with reality. For them, it’s all about values signaling. &#8220;Do you need to even work, bro? Who cares about your work, bro? Your job? Your community? Your safety?&#8221;
What really matters is that you&#8217;re holding the right lawn sign.
For the Democratic Party, it has become all about sounding off. It&#8217;s all about the performative. It&#8217;s all about the “resistance.”
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One of the things that has truly broken the country is the primary process in both parties, but largely in the Democratic Party. That primary process, which says that the most motivated Left wingers are going to decide who the nominees are, has completely skewed the nature of American politics.
Thus, there is a brand new poll showing that the new frontrunner in the New York Democratic mayoral primary is not Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor who&#8217;s now running for mayor in New York; it’s a person named Zohran Mamdani, according to a new poll by Public Policy Polling. (Mayor Eric Adams, who was a Democrat, is now running as an Independent.)
Who exactly is Zohran Mamdani? A state lawmaker from Queens, an open democratic socialist, one of these privileged, highly educated people who is completely disconnected from real life. He is the son of a Hollywood director and a college professor at Columbia University. He’s 33 and never held a real job.
He believes there should be city-run <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zohran_k_mamdani/video/7447528235836902686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grocery stores</a>, because the problem with grocery stores is that they operate at a profit motive. He’s a full-scale Bernie Sanders nut case. He said, “We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent, and we&#8217;ll pass on those savings to you.”
That&#8217;s not how things work. The Soviet Union tried to operate “stores without profit motive.” You know what ended up happening? Misallocation of resources. What ends up happening is shortages, because the profit motive is what determines how to control supply, what to bring into the grocery store and what not to.
“We have to make it very clear that people cannot eat words,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7HDuoJ0MQ">declared</a>. “People need to have actual food. People need to have actual houses to live in, people need to have actual schools that they can go to. And I think it&#8217;s so critical that this journey into understanding the way in which we should relate to power, this journey and understanding that it is socialism that we are fighting for, is a journey that should begin as soon as possible for every single person in this country and this world.”
How radical is Mamdani? He said in 2020 that the New York Police Department — this was in 2020, while the riots were going on — should be removed from high-crime areas.
These are luxury beliefs. These are beliefs that nobody who actually lives on the ground in New York City holds, except for white libs and their allies. Mamdani isn&#8217;t white, but his voting base is predominantly white.
The New York Times even asked him about his voting base and the fact that they&#8217;re predominantly white, saying, “The polls show you&#8217;re doing really well with younger, whiter, more progressive voters. Why do you think you&#8217;re having a harder time with voters of color, who seem to be supporting former Governor Cuomo?” 
Mamdani suggested it was because the vast majority of New Yorkers had yet to tune in to the race. He said the polling obscured Asian New Yorkers, who were not listed as a category.
That’s not why. The answer is, as I’ve said, because the luxury beliefs that are held by white, college educated liberals are at complete odds with reality.
In 2020, Mamdani called for defunding the police. In February 2024, he was screaming about Israeli genocide while wearing a keffiyeh.
This is the guy who&#8217;s on the verge of becoming mayor of New York City, the most populous city in the United States. This is how off the rails the Democratic Party is.
Mamdani is a representation in human form of the Omnicause, the leftist agglomeration of grievances in one giant cause.
The question is not why people like Mamdani exist. We know why: They&#8217;ve been turned out by the university system, by a far-Left in this country that is taking control of the commanding heights of American popular culture and education and the media.
Name one political difference between the obnoxious Swedish woman child Greta Thunberg and this obnoxious American manchild now running for mayor in New York.
You can’t.

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Days after being endorsed by fellow democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Zohran Mamdani is leading former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor for the first time, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-6195-da2a-a9bf-6fbd7abe0000">poll</a>, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan&#8217;s city comptroller campaign, showed Mamdani leading the primary 35% to Cuomo&#8217;s 31%, within a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points. The survey of 573 likely Democratic voters was conducted on June 6-7, one day after AOC endorsed Mamdani.
The results indicate that the primary has effectively narrowed to a two-person contest between Mamdani and Cuomo, with no other candidates breaking double digits, despite endorsements from a plethora of top New York Democratic officials.
Mamdani, 33, elected to the State Assembly in 2020, has positioned himself as a leftist alternative to Cuomo&#8217;s more moderate brand of Democratic politics, campaigning on free public bus fares, free child care, and city-run grocery stores. The self-described democratic socialist has yet to present any realistic plan to pay for these programs, which would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/zohran-mamdani-policy-pitches-new-york-00369756">require</a> roughly $10 billion in funding for an already cash-strapped city.
Mamdani&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nycs-mayoral-race-takes-sharp-turn-putting-muslim-socialist-neck-and-neck-with-cuomo?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=NYC%E2%80%99s+Mayoral+Race+Takes+Sharp+Turn%2C+Putting+Muslim+Socialist+Neck-And-Neck+With+Cuomo">rise</a> in the polls follows his effective use of social media to promote his platform and strategic partnerships with other far-Left Democrats. His campaign has capitalized on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611">endorsement</a> to build momentum ahead of the June 24 primary.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a once-in-a-generation leader who has led the fight for working people in Congress. 
In 2018, she shocked the world and transformed our politics. 
On June 24, with <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s support and this movement behind us, we will do the same. <a href="https://t.co/cRJI1dUTzG">pic.twitter.com/cRJI1dUTzG</a>
&mdash; Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When you run a disciplined, grassroots campaign relentlessly focused on an agenda to address the crises in working people&#8217;s lives, these are the results,&#8221; Mamdani spokesperson Andrew Epstein said. &#8220;New York City is so close to turning the page on the corrupt politics of the past and winning a future we can afford.&#8221;
Cuomo&#8217;s campaign has disputed the poll results, with spokesperson Rich Azzopardi <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/zohran-mamdani-climbs-to-top-of-poll-leading-andrew-cuomo-00401594">telling</a> POLITICO that their internal polling shows the former governor maintaining &#8220;a consistent double-digit lead for more than three months.&#8221; The Cuomo spokesman complained that &#8220;the only polls showing this trend line are paid for by Zohran Mamdani Inc,&#8221; and, &#8220;It&#8217;s not lost on us that Politico is the only NYC media outlet that continues to take these outlier polls.&#8221;
According to POLITICO, the poll methodology might have slightly favored Mamdani, as 61% of responses came from text messages rather than landlines.
The former governor has recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-says-hell-spend-eight-years-in-washington-fighting-trump-if-he-wins-nyc-mayors-race?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Cuomo+Says+He%E2%80%99ll+Spend+%E2%80%98Eight+Years+In+Washington%E2%80%99+Fighting+Trump+If+He+Wins+NYC+Mayor%E2%80%99s+Race">sharpened</a> his attacks against Mamdani, questioning his &#8220;thin resume&#8221; and ability to lead New York City&#8217;s complex government. Cuomo maintains 42% support among black voters, while Mamdani showed the strongest appeal with white and Asian voters.
Ranked choice voting, which will be used in the Democratic primary in two weeks, was not simulated in the survey. However, a recent Emerson <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/">poll</a> showed Mamdani performing better in later rounds of ranked choice voting than in early rounds by picking up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated, which could indicate an even larger lead than the PPP poll suggests.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed based on voters&#8217; next choices until someone wins a majority.
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, running as an independent this cycle, has been far behind both Mamdani and Cuomo in general election polling, and is reportedly <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/us-news/eric-adams-quietly-tries-to-rally-nyc-republicans-to-run-on-gop-line-or-back-his-independent-mayoral-bid-as-politicos-grew-fearful-of-socialist-zohran-mamdani/">courting</a> Big Apple Republicans for support. Adams, who made an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/adams-and-homan-deepen-partnership-law-enforcement-ice-00305221">alliance</a> with Trump border czar Tom Homan earlier this year, moved to open an ICE office on Rikers Island and cooperated to indict 27 alleged Tren de Aragua members.
Cuomo and Mamdani will face each other again in a debate Thursday night, where Cuomo is expected to continue highlighting Mamdani&#8217;s limited government experience and the fiscal impact of his policy proposals.
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All gas, no breaks. <a href="https://t.co/gCR7pYU9uT">pic.twitter.com/gCR7pYU9uT</a>
&mdash; Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1932958549715378177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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