Posted on 07/23/2025 9:17:08 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The winner of the New York City Democratic primary for mayor is traditionally considered the overwhelming frontrunner in the general election.
That's because Democrats outnumber Republicans roughly six-to-one in the nation's most populous city.
However, that's not the case this year, one month after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born, state assemblyman from Queens, stunned the political world by topping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates in a come-from-behind primary victory to capture the nomination.
President Donald Trump believes that Cuomo, who last week officially announced he would continue his mayoral bid as an independent candidate, has a solid chance of defeating Mamdani, whom the president has repeatedly claimed is a "communist."
"I would think that he would have a good shot at winning," the president told reporters at the White House last week, a day after Cuomo's announcement.
A handful of polls conducted this month in New York City suggest that Mamdani is the frontrunner, but that he is far from running away with the race. The surveys indicate Mamdani ahead of Cuomo anywhere from around 15 points to as few as three points.
Trailing Mamdani and Cuomo in the surveys are Mayor Eric Adams, the embattled incumbent who announced earlier this year that he would seek re-election as an independent candidate, and Guardian Angels co-founder Curtis Sliwa, who for a second straight election is the Republican mayoral nominee.
Also on the ballot in the general election is Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor running as an independent.
Walden has proposed that an independent survey be conducted in September to determine which candidate would have the best shot of defeating Mamdani, with the other candidates agreeing to drop out.
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Mamdani will win in a divided field with 36% of the vote. New Yorkers deserve what is happening.
The NY liberal women are going to put this punk in and they are going to get it good and hard.
It appears that the same thing may happen in Minneapolis.
This guy will try to destroy NYC from within, just like the Obozo and his band of communist criminals did to country. Hopefully the people of NYC aren’t so stupid to actually put a Islamic jihadist in the Mayor’s office.
They will do that.
Despite everyone warning them not to do it.
If you own real estate in NYC, how's the time to sell.
I agree- and as someone who has lived in a suburb of NY all my life- i hope it happens...
It will be the final nail in the third world craphole known as NYChitty- it will be worse than they could ever imagine...and
1) property values in the counties that surround NYChitty will explode
2) Staten Island will move full force to try and leave NYChitty..
3) potentially the state moves to the right, as it did after dinkins destroyed NYChitty in the early 90’s and we got Rudy and Pataki....
NYChitty voted for deblasio not once, but twice...NYChitty was solely responsible for hochul becoming governor and voted her in despitean 18 month trial run where she proved to be a complete buffoon...Sandy from the Suburb’s district continues to turn into a third world craphole yet she keeps getting re-elected...
So yes- they are that stupid...the fact the GOP in most of NY is nothing but spineless cowards doesn’t help the cause...
Take a look at Londonistan. They are likely to do the same thing in NYC.
A million people will end up leaving NYC. Cops and firefighters will quit their jobs (and move to Florida).
Zohran Mamdani will consolidate his power by appointing his buddies to key positions.
Ya know, Zoltar’s is an Islamic Marxist exactly like Obama. Both were born in Africa. Both are anti colonialist. Both have communist fathers. Both are filled with anti white venom. Zoltar’s campaign is promising free stuff exactly like Obama. Zoltar aspires to be Obama who hates Jews and empowered Iran and Hamas to destroy Israel. The only thing not clear yet is if Zoltar is a CCP puppet too.
They're living in Florida.
Remember Florida used to be a "purple" state and they voted for Obama twice.
Living in Upstate, I would like to see a real movement to simply split NY State in two.
What was once the "Empire State" is now simply NY City financialization and welfare skim, and everyone else.
Not all all...the NY GOP has been feckless, spineless, cowards the past quarter century- this is not a new phenomena..
i agree- and there is a movement to split the state in two- but it will never happen...
Eastern Washington has been trying to join Idaho for decades...
Rudy Giuliani...
you can’t compare NYChitty to London...NYChitty is made up of 5 boroughs...one is deep red, Staten Island...the eastern part of Queens is turning redder by the minute and the wave is moving east.....
The Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan are the holdouts...
- H.L. Menkin
You're about Queens, Trump has shown some improvement in the Bronx. He held a rally there last summer. Hispanics and Black men are big fans of Trump now. Especially compared to 2020 when Trump was crushed.
Some of them own bodegas so they're not going to like Zohran Mamdani's new management.
LOL- i was at the rally...the Bronx still votes overwhelmingly rat...i’m about the numbers and facts; the only one of the 5 boroughs that cast a smaller % of votes for President Trump than the Bronx last November was Manhattan...
True enough, but NYC is so ungodly BIG and developed and (did I mention) BIG that its fate can and will drag down the whole shootin match.
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