‘Stop-Mamdani’ movement may fail Cuomo despite recent Eric Adams endorsement

There was Andrew Cuomoat Madison Square Garden, enjoying a Knicks game.

What was the ousted governor happy about? He’s just returned from the last New York mayoral debate, where he took some shots at the front-runner Zahran MamdaniBut he is still on track to lose the election.

Ah, but showing up at an NBA game (a league suddenly tainted by a gambling scandal involving the mafia!) was tantamount to taking a photo with Mayor Eric Adams, who endorsed his former rival yesterday.

So what if he called Cuomo a “snake and a liar” last month?

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However, Adams, who was indicted on corruption charges, was, until the Trump era Ministry of Justice Dropped the case – it was low in the single digits. So his support may not move many votes, although it may give Cuomo some street credibility among the black community and among Orthodox Jews.

New York City politics is a nine-dimensional chess game, with shifting alliances, intense rivalries, and conflicting narratives. When you speak as a native, you have to understand the melting pot, the neighborhoods, the ethnic neighborhoods, Wall Street, Albany — it’s an asphalt jungle.

Mayors of New York They tend to become national figures — John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg — by controlling media capital.

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Mamdani, the Assemblyman who started at 1%, should have been outdone by Cuomo, who made a lazy, inaccurate effort and lost the Democratic nomination.

From left, independent mayoral candidates, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, and Democratic candidate Zahran Mamdani, participate in a mayoral debate, Thursday, October 16, 2025, in New York. (Angelina Katsanis, Pool Photo/AP)

From Harlem to Coney Island, Mamdani has proven himself a charismatic activist. He is likely to win even if Republican Curtis Sliwawho was previously in the Guardian Angels, withdraws, which he has no incentive to do.

So the race has turned into a “Stop Mamdani” movement, mainly because he is a self-described democratic socialist who in the past has taken some far-left positions, such as defunding the police. Republicans like to make him a national symbol of the party; Trump regularly denounces him as a “communist.” However, many Democrats are concerned that he will take business away from Apple.

Cuomo, as the son of a governor, seems inevitably the establishment candidate. And Andrew, who I’ve known since he was 25, before he ran HUD, carries the burden of being forced to resign over allegations of sexual harassment by 13 women — with Mamdani announcing that one of them, Charlotte Bennett, was in the debate audience.

Unbalanced, Cuomo said no charges were ever brought. Incidentally, Trump took the same step in a debate with… Hillary Clinton.

Andrew Cuomo has also been blamed for deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic.

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the New York Times He has seven “takeaways,” such as Cuomo having “more energy” and taking “more punches” against Mamdani: “He never ran anything, never ran anything, never had a real job.”

In a classic New York swipe, the former governor said Trump would roll over Mamdani: “He thinks he’s a baby and he’ll knock him on his stomach.” (You can look it up. One time, Mayor Koch called someone an “idiot,” and there was a whole debate among the editors about whether I could print that.)

Mamdani responded that Cuomo would just be a “Trump puppet.”

If you get the impression that the president is deeply unpopular in his hometown, the now-abandoned Palm Beach, you’re right.

Both opponents attacked Mamdani over Israel, with Saliwa saying his two young sons, who are Jewish, felt unsafe.

This is one of the main points in The Washington Postwhich operates in five “fast food”.

“He does not believe the country should be a Jewish-majority state, and should instead focus on equal rights for both Palestinians and Jews. In this discussion, the attacks on Mamdani, a Muslim, appeared to be more difficult, even as Mamdani insisted that he would fight anti-Semitism.”

Democratic candidate Zahran Mamdani (right), Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa (left), and independent candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo participate in the second New York City mayoral debate at the LaGuardia Center for the Performing Arts at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Hiroko Masuiki/Pool/AFP)

Which brings us to a much more personal attack from a Times columnist Brett StevensUnder the title “Why Mamdani scares Jews like me.”

It evokes some lesser-known situations from the past.

First, when Mamdani founded the Bowdoin College branch Students for Justice in PalestineHe stopped cooperating with the left-wing Jewish group J Street, which supports the establishment of a Palestinian state and opposes Israeli settlements.

“Why? Because J Street supports Israel as a ‘democratic homeland for the Jewish people.’ This was too much for Mamdani… who to this day does not support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”

Second, Mamdani wrote a rap song in 2017 declaring his love for the “Holy Land Five… The Holy Land Foundation was an ostensible charity that was convicted in 2008 of funneling $12 million to Hamas,” and those accused of terrorism and other crimes were convicted.

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Three, a few months ago October 7 massacre by HamasMamdani introduced a bill that “would have jeopardized the tax-exempt status of almost every pro-Israel charity.” Stephens accuses the front runner of “monomania.”

This is no small feat in a city with the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel. But Mamdani has met with rabbis and some young Jewish voters who support him, either because they are focused on his election campaign or oppose the damage and death toll Israel has inflicted on Gaza.

And get this: Cuomo just pulled an AI ad that casts Mamdani supporters as thieves, and drunk drivers as human traffickers. “Just disgusting,” Zahran said.

So that wraps up this piece, right?

Sit! There’s always more drama in the city that never sleeps.

Curtis Sliwa suddenly resigned from his job at the most important talks in New York Radio station, WABC (rock station in my day).

Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa participates in the second debate for mayor of New York City with Democratic candidate Zahran Mamdani and independent candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at the LaGuardia Center for the Performing Arts at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, New York, on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Hiroko Maswick/Pool/Agence France-Presse) Press) (Photo by Hiroko MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ((Photo by Hiroko Masuek/Pool/AFP) (Photo by Hiroko Masueke/Pool/AFP via Getty Images))

“You’ll never see me in the WABC studios again!” thunder.

Saliwa said the people he employed and trained were betraying him when they urged him to resign in order to stop Mamdani.

Billionaire station owner John Catsimatidis, who ran for mayor a decade ago, has also suggested he withdraw.

Sliwa told host Sid Rosenberg that WABC is biased toward Cuomo. “You’re going to lose and you’re going to lose hard and embarrassingly,” Rosenberg said as the shouting match grew louder.

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I have no idea why Curtis Sliwa abandoned the party. But as Politicians I know New York is a place out of my way, where everyone takes turns being angry at each other.

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