Posted on 09/06/2025 3:20:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York —
As President Donald Trump tried to push candidates out of the New York City’s mayoral race, a longtime state senator called on other Democrats to put aside differences with Zohran Mamdani, who has roiled the party since his stunning win in June’s mayoral primary.
“Whether you agree with every one of his policy proposals or not,” wrote state Sen. Liz Krueger in her Friday statement endorsing Mamdani, “there is simply no question that he is committed to serving the interests of regular New Yorkers, not his own interests and especially not the interests of Donald Trump, who has made it clear this week that his preferred candidate is Andrew Cuomo.”
Still, many top Democrats in New York are still declining to endorse Mamdani, bucking the tradition of backing a party primary winner even as holdouts face growing pressure from key voices.
Among those holding out still are House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Both are from Brooklyn, the borough where Mamdani will rally Saturday with independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a native Brooklynite.
Trump’s declaration that two candidates should drop out of the race came as his aides negotiated with Mayor Eric Adams over an ambassadorship or other potential role in his administration. Adams dropping out could help Cuomo, running as an independent after he was upset by Mamdani in the June primary, to consolidate opposition against the democratic socialist. Any real or implied association with Trump could also hurt the former governor in deeply blue New York City.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a longtime Sanders ally who endorsed Mamdani during the primary, suggested Democratic Party elders were setting a bad example.
“Are we a party who rallies behind our nominee or not?” Ocasio-Cortez...
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It just HAS to be about Trump with these people. It’s absurd.
The article was actually pretty good even if it came from CNN.
The Democrats are in a lose/lose situation no matter what happens.
Chances are Cuomo would be a more effective mayor that the DeBlasio and Adams, but that is not saying much.
I think Trump is trying to intervene because he knows what effect this will have on an already bad business environment in NYC.
It also gives him some foundation from which to put the hammer down if this Commie wins which is highly likely.
Well, AOC, you are clearly now a party that rallies around its COMMIE-ne!
Mamdani’s father is a professor who wishes to dismantle the US.
I read the article about it but can’t find it now.
He'll probably send the National Guard to NYC. I doubt he'll allow NYC to become the next Londonistan.
Going full commie.
“The Democrats are in a lose/lose situation no matter what”
I agree - and the thing is, they have a pretty clear way out of their dilemma, but they are too stupid or too stubborn to grab it.
Trump’s weird gift to back 80/20 issues, and to have the Democrats overcome by their TDS to embrace the 20% side is exceptional.
The collapsing “heathcare system” is beckoning to the Democrats to finish the job they began in 1965, while the best the administration can do is Dr. Oz - but they are so consumed with their Orange Man Bad delusion they can’t see it.
oh I hope he wins and enacts every commie policy there is in NY!!!
Says the woman who wants to primary members of her own party.
“..State Sen Liz Krueger...”
An AWFUL: Affluent White Female Urban Leftist (Lunatic, for short)
On top of that, she’s about the size of a full-gown, communist-style ghettopotomus.....
Should be home baking cookies for the local neighborhood bazaar, NOT anywhere near the levers of power of anything...well, except the kitchen oven...maybe, with supervision. Spit.
If this idiot gets elected, Trump has over 3 years to ruin the Dems over his actions.
“As President Donald Trump tried to push candidates out of the New York City’s mayoral race”
CNN has now outdone themselves: by pretending that a rumor that NBC fabricated from SUPPOSED anonymous sources is something that is actually REAL ...
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