Posted on 10/17/2025 4:26:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Socialist Zohran Mamdani skirted tough questions and offered few specifics as he smoothly swatted off a barrage of attacks from ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a heated first general mayoral election debate Thursday.
The rat-a-tat verbal brawl between the three contenders – including a zinger-lobbing Curtis Sliwa – from a 30 Rockefeller Center stage made for good TV, but arguably left New Yorkers without an idea how their next mayor would handle the nitty-gritty while governing the nation’s largest city.
The front-runner Democratic candidate Mamdani stayed on his “affordability” message, but could offer few details of how he’d actually put his platform into practice — and dodged straight answers when pressed on some contentious issues.
“Well, Zohran, boy, you have fantasies,” Sliwa, the Republican candidate, said at one point during the two-hour slugfest hosted by NBC 4 New York, Telemundo and POLITICO.
“Never going to come about in terms of funding everything you want. It’s going to be free, free, free. It’s a fantasy. Let’s deal with reality.”
Cuomo, the former governor who’s running as an independent, spared no opportunity to hit Mamdani over his Democratic Socialists of America-backed policies on prostitution and misdemeanors, stance on Israel, past tweets calling the NYPD “racist” and lack of experience.
“He has literally never had a job,” Cuomo charged, adding, “God forbid — a 9/11, a health pandemic” should happen while he’s in office.
But Mamdani, a Queens state assemblyman, appeared at ease on the stage, interlacing his dreamy, ambiguous promises of free buses, universal childcare and freezing the rent with put-downs tying Cuomo to President Trump and billionaires.
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The ONLY answer is:Who really wants a communist for a mayor !
Interesting situation if Ciatarelli wins the governor’s race in NJ, which could then become a sanctuary for capitalism.
FOX is running the Martha MacCallum interview with Mamdani every 15 minutes. Absolutely disgusting, this is how they pretend to be a right wing network BUT still get the liberals message across. In the interview he is doing nothing but showing his big white teeth while he lies.
I don't think it helps reminding New Yorkers about Cuomo's performance during COVID plandemic...
NYC Democrats are too stupid to let that affect their reflexive RAT vote.
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