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[–] 147 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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).

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah. Mamdani will easily win.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If Trump wants Cuomo to win, then Trump should try endorsing Mamdani.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And I'm sure Cuomo will claim he's better suited for fighting Trump.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Corrupt sex offenders of a feather...

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    oh wait your serious. let me roll my eyes even harder

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They're friends?

    Im shocked.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why would trump endorse a loser?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Oh, please do. That certainly won't make any Mamdani supporters change their minds, and probably will scare off Cuomo supporrters

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Please please please.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Shows how absolutely corrupt the Democratic party is if this is true.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Meanwhile Booker refuses to endorse Mamdani. Billionaire class solidarity transcends party politics.

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