Posted on 08/05/2024 12:02:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ex-Gov. George Pataki says a fellow Republican could win the New York City mayor’s race next year if Big Apple Dems skew any more to the left.
Pataki, the last Republican statewide office-holder when he left Albany in 2007, suggested Sunday that a GOPer’s chances would considerably improve if a lefty progressive such as city Comptroller Brad Lander defeats moderate incumbent Mayor Eric Adams in the Democratic Party’s primary next June.
“We know that Mayor Adams is going to be challenged. [Comptroller] Brad Lander … has already announced that he’s running for mayor,” Pataki said on 770 WABC’s “The Cats Roundtable” radio program.
“He is way left … like de Blasio was,” the three-term former governor said of Lander and ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Pataki noted that there were the two decades when Republican Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg ruled City Hall, from 1994 through 2013 — winning five consecutive elections combined.
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They’ll need someone to start early so they can get a jump on Curtis Sliwa’s campaign
He WILL run again and he has a built-in following from the radio, if not from his Guardian Angels appearances. His no nonsense talk resonates with a lot of people — but nowhere near enough for a city wide election
NO. Its would be like trying to run a libertarian in the former East Germany
As Stalin said - it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.
+1, as in no way in hell.
“As Stalin said - it doesn’t matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes.”
Being proven in Venezuela right now.
Republican, win? NYC? Now? No way...NYC is a bunch of Communist “wanna-bees”.
NYC is a Democrat toilet. Let them clean it up. The days of Giuliani are over.
I like Pataki, but what does he mean if they move farther left? NYC has become another San Francisco just about.
I think that city is beyond help.
I don’t believe it.
The population has changed since the Giuliani/Bloomberg days. The people who voted for those two - most of them - have left the city.
He is nuts. Used to like him somewhat but the thing about having all those CATS! WEIRD.
Do the republicans even want that obama-hole?
When your politics is really your religion you tend to move to more extreme over time.
A Republican would have to be retarded to even want that job.
I wonder if Andrew Giuliani would run for mayor.
How could the Dems possibly move further left? Bring back Pol Pot?
Eric Adams is a class-A fool. He’s all party and no issues. He is not up to the job, that’s clear. And, he’s an evil racist commie. Let’s not forget his saying he only trusts black security guys around him, and hires his own brother. He crowed about having “the most blacks in office”. That’s something to be proud of? Even if they have no ability for the job? No wonder NYC is circling the bowl.
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