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Why Wall Street isn’t celebrating after Zohran Mamdani’s thrashing in final debate
New York Post ^ | October 24, 2025 | Charles Gasparino

Posted on 10/24/2025 12:21:31 PM PDT by Angelino97

Zohran Mamdani took an unprecedented beating during Wednesday night’s mayoral debate – but Wall Street is still bracing for the worst come Nov. 4, sources told On The Money.

The socialist firebrand got roasted by rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa over everything from antisemitism to his pie-in-the-sky ideas about buses and the rent. The rivals also capitalized on Mamdani’s bizarre failure to take a position on key ballot initiatives – provoking groans from a TV audience.

Nevertheless, many of the city’s big business leaders skipped watching the debate altogether – fretting that it may be too little, too late to save the city from a Mamdani mayoralty.

“It helps Cuomo, but it doesn’t close a 10-point gap,” one well-placed Wall Streeter told The Post. “Unfortunately, we’re going to have a f–king Jew-hating socialist running this city barring a miracle.”

Assessing Cuomo’s manifold failures, the source added: “He’s just not likable; Sliwa is actually more likeable, but can’t win. It’s really sad.”

The CEOs of the city’s major financial companies have resigned themselves to “Maoist Mamdani.” Some say a self-proclaimed Marxist mayor won’t change the overall direction of the city beyond the socialism that rules it today.

New York City, once the financial capital of the world, is a shell of its former self: Endless tax increases, waves of migrants, lax policing and homelessness has been the rule, rather than the exception since the mayoralty of Bill di Blasio, who served two terms starting in 2013.

Eric Adams did little to change that descent into madness. As a result, Florida, Texas and even Utah have become new meccas for NYC’s once proud banking community, a massive out-migration of jobs and tax dollars.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 0classonfr; 0iqkeywordkaren; andrewcuomo; curtissliwa; defundthepolice; ericadams; frdegenerates; frpottymouths; kathyhochul; newyork; newyorkcity; zohranmamdani

1 posted on 10/24/2025 12:21:31 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Because the debates don’t matter. Momdani is the shoo-in and that’s all there is to it.


2 posted on 10/24/2025 12:35:04 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Angelino97

Trump couldn’t win either. He only had a 5% chance against Hillary. And today we live in the world she made. 🙄


3 posted on 10/24/2025 12:37:32 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Angelino97

NYC deserves this guy


4 posted on 10/24/2025 12:42:10 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.l)
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To: Angelino97

WHAT % OF WALL STREET IS GOING TO FLORIDA & WHAT % IS GOING TO TEXAS????

THEY CERTAINLY WILL NOT STAY IN NYC.

HOW ABOUT THE UN????????


5 posted on 10/24/2025 12:43:49 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

6 posted on 10/24/2025 12:50:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m flabbergasted that anyone with an IQ above 12 would vote for Mamdammit.

He’s such an obvious huckster.


7 posted on 10/24/2025 12:55:31 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: Angelino97
Assessing Cuomo’s manifold failures, the source added: “He’s just not likable; Sliwa is actually more likeable, but can’t win. It’s really sad.”

Or.... maybe it's not about likeability. Maybe sometimes when the people vote for a communist it's because they want communism.

8 posted on 10/24/2025 12:57:16 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: BradyLS

I can’t believe she’s going out on tour next year. I see she’s booked in Target Center, where the Timberwolves play, in January.


9 posted on 10/24/2025 1:14:44 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Oh, Trumpy days are here again....)
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To: gnickgnack2

“Aah-rooOOoooh!”

😄


10 posted on 10/24/2025 1:23:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Yo-Yo

“Momdani is the shoo-in “

No, he is not going to be mayor. I don’t care what the polls say.


11 posted on 10/24/2025 1:26:31 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Angelino97
My guess is the Wall Streeters already have their escape plans in order and it would them no good to publicize this.

There have been contingency plans for moving since the Cold War, but that doesn't mean they can just flip a switch.

12 posted on 10/24/2025 1:39:51 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: rdcbn1

Agreed. Let it go as far down the shitter as possible.


13 posted on 10/24/2025 2:19:05 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Veto!
I’m flabbergasted that anyone with an IQ above 12 would vote for Mamdammit.

I enter President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden into evidence...

14 posted on 10/24/2025 2:24:57 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

OK.Dumbocrats are that stupid. The Obamarama was among the wrst thing that eer happened to the USA. He was intentionally awful, Slow Joe was stupid beyond help.


15 posted on 10/24/2025 6:00:01 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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To: rdcbn1
"NYC deserves this guy"


16 posted on 10/24/2025 7:37:10 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Angelino97
26% of New Yorkers are considering leaving the city if Mamdani wins. In 2021, only 24% of New Yorkers voted. Since 2005, only about 1.3 million New Yorkers have voted. If only half of the people considering leaving New York vote against Zohran Mamdani, he will lose.
17 posted on 10/24/2025 9:49:42 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: Angelino97

How is Wall Street not celebrating right now? Inflation came in elevated again, over 3% and rising, 50% higher than Fed’s supposed target. Government is still shut down, it’s dragging on longer and longer, no end in sight. And yet, what are the financial headlines saying as of today, October 24th? “Stocks fly to fresh records after tame inflation report!”. That is literally what is happening right now. Wall street was pumping every market to new fresh new highs, TODAY. How is that not celebrating??


18 posted on 10/25/2025 1:02:36 AM PDT by yesnothankyou
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