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Zohran Mamdani routinely plays the tough guy — threatening to be President Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare,” snarling at ICE big Tom Homan like a leashed labradoodle — yet for all his bluster he somehow doesn’t have the stones to sit down with The Post. We invited all the mayoral candidates to sit down with the Editorial Board this year to share their vision for New York City and answer some questions; nearly all accepted, but Mamdani’s campaign blanked us. We called them; we emailed. After the primary, one flack suggested it might happen . . . but his team never...

There’s a peculiar phenomenon in nature where lemmings supposedly march off cliffs in mass suicide. While that myth has been debunked, something eerily similar is happening in New York City, where voters appear ready to elect their own economic executioner.Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, commands a commanding 15-point lead in the mayoral race, polling at 46 percent to Andrew Cuomo’s 31 percent. His platform reads like a Bernie Sanders fever dream: rent freezes, free bus services, fully-funded daycare, city-owned grocery stores, and a $30 minimum wage. Young voters under 30 give him an astronomical 35-point advantage.The Uganda-born assemblyman, who...

We cannot win a war we aren’t even willing to acknowledge is being waged against us. It’s high time we do.Americans across the country usually have little reason to pay close attention to the politics of New York City — despite its size and status as the world’s financial capital — because it rarely affects them. However, as New Yorkers head to the ballot box next week to vote in the most significant mayoral race in decades, the eyes of the nation are fixated on the rise of a Marxist-Islamist as their likely choice in a city the nation rallied...

Is Mamdani not a product of America? Everything about him I recognize as part of our society. I don’t celebrate it, but I don’t deny it. He grew up and mastered a system created by our brahmin class. He was nurtured in a family that was ensconced in the elite university system that holds sway in our country. He went to Bowdoin College, an exclusive, expensive retreat for the children of the well-off. He majored in African studies, as his father had, but he was not destined for the confines of a university library his whole life. He knew that...

The Big Apple’s hotly contested mayoral race sparked a massive first-day voter turnout Saturday, with about five times more voters hitting the polls compared to 2021 as early voting kicked off, according to the Board of Elections. The increase comes as a high-stakes showdown to replace Mayor Eric Adams pits former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an Independent, against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party nominee and beret-wearing Republican Curtis Sliwa. The New York City BOE reported a total of 79,409 early voter check-ins as the polls closed Saturday night – a sharp jump from the 15,418 who showed up when...

Anyone who has spent time around New York City has probably run into Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. A tall, tough hombre with his trademark red beret, he probably knows every crack, crevice, and crack house in the city. Heck, he's probably on a first-name basis with half the city's cats, given the dozens of adoptees he has in his apartment. From his career slinging hamburgers in an all-night fast food restaurant in the bad old days of the Bronx-is-burning to his 24/7 radio career, he is the man who never sleeps in the city that never sleeps. His knowledge...

The tides are turning. Get on Board! They are scared and rightfully so. Curtis can win… move over Cuomo, we’ve got a city to save!!!!

A new poll shows Zohran Mamdani holds a significant lead over Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in the New York City mayor's race. The Fox News poll was taken before Thursday's debate, the first opportunity voters had to directly compare the candidates. Poll indicates Mamdani has support from Jewish New Yorkers In the debate, Cuomo spent a lot of time attacking Mamdani's positions on Israel, but the Fox News poll indicates Mamdani has support among Jewish New Yorkers The poll of Jewish voters gave Cuomo 42%, Mamdani 38% and Republican Curtis Sliwa 13%. On Friday, CBS News New York asked...

Evocative of that infamous 2019 Washington Post article that described the recently-deceased ISIS killer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an “austere religious scholar” who displayed “canny pragmatism” during his reign of terror, candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani recently posted a photo to social media showing him cheerily embracing a man by the name of Siraj Wahhaj (real name Jeffrey Kearse), a Muslim imam who has a long history of raising funds for convicted killers with terrorist ideologies, calling the experience “pleasure” and referring to Wahhaj as a “leader” and “pillar” of the community:Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had...

Did anyone watch the New York City mayor's debate? I saw the rerun later, and it's clear to me that Mamdani is one step closer to winning the election. Let's check this from Newsweek: On Thursday before the debate, Betfair gave Mamdani a 90 percent chance of victory, but this dropped to an 88 percent chance once it was complete. Over the same period, Cuomo saw his chances of victory improve from 11 percent to 12 percent. However, prior to the debate, bookmaker Star Sports gave Mamdani an 80 percent chance of victory, which improved in the immediate aftermath of...

A newly elected German mayor is fighting for her life today after being repeatedly stabbed at her home - with police taking her teenage adopted son and daughter away for questioning. The attack on Iris Stalzer, 57, mayor-elect of Herdecke near the western city of Dortmund, took place at around noon, said public broadcaster WDR. The politician sustained as many as 13 stab wounds, according to Westfalenpost. She was discovered inside her apartment by her 15-year-old adopted son, according to German outlet Bild, with life-threatening injuries and several stabbing wounds on her stomach and back. Police have reportedly arrested the...

Seattle Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell said during a mayoral debate Thursday night he has “no desire” to put repeat criminal offenders in jail, and he doesn’t know how to answer the question on whether the city is “too lax” on repeat offenders. “So, let me make something very clear. I was the one that sponsored the ‘Ban the Box’ legislation when everyone opposed it because the criminal system has had a disparate impact on Black and Brown communities, let me lead with that,” Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said in a mayoral debate Thursday night when asked a follow-up question about...

A savage satire taking aim at London Mayor Sadiq Khan. This parody track exposes the lies, failures, and clownish behaviour behind the man in charge of the capital. From ULEZ lies and virtue signalling to globalist fanboying, this song pulls no punches. Think political comedy meets musical mockery — if you’re tired of censorship, weak leadership, and London’s decline, this one’s for you. 🔥 LYRICS HIGHLIGHTS: “I’m Sadiq Khan, snivel-snivel-snivel-um, I’m a horrible man, snivel-snivel-um…”

If the pundits and politicians are right, New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s agonized and belated departure from the November 4 general election is unlikely to realign the now three-way contest that favors the avowed socialist and Islamic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Adams’s farewell message was “I urge New Yorkers to choose our leaders not by what they promise but by what they have delivered.” When Adams finally acceded to political reality on Sunday, polls showed him at 7-10%, Mamdani at 40-45%, former Governor Andrew Cuomo at 25-30% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa at 15-18%. It’s apparent to most that, no...

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced on Sunday that he would abandon his foundering campaign for a second term, upending the race to lead the nation’s largest city just five weeks before Election Day.

Sometimes I wish we could use emojis in headlines, because I would have used the "laughing guy" one for this story.Some news just makes me laugh out loud, you see, especially ones that involve Democrat infighting. Especially during a dark time like this, when so many are acting like soulless ghouls in the wake of the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk.Whenever I read about a Dem internal spat, I smile because I think, “You guys deserve each other. And all your toxicity.”In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul took the risk of endorsing democrat socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor, even though...

Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed lefty Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani for mayor in a bombshell Sunday guest essay — after her camp tried to keep the candidate at arm’s length through the campaign. “The question of who will be the next mayor is one I take extremely seriously and to which I have devoted a great deal of thought,” Hochul wrote in a New York Times Opinion piece published Sunday night. “Tonight I am endorsing Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani,” she said. Hochul’s likely endorsement of Mamdani was first reported by The Post earlier Sunday evening. Before her official endorsement was announced, the...

These are the latest polls of the New York City mayoral election. Use the dropdown below to see polls about hypothetical matchups in the race. Polls from “select pollsters” meet certain criteria for reliability and are shown with a diamond.

Well, this would be an interesting development... According to POLITICO, the Mayor of New York, Eric Adams, has been offered a job in the Trump administration as a reward for dropping out of the New York City race. It would make a lot of sense, as Adams is the lowest-performing candidate in a crowded race in which it sure looks likely that Zohran Mamdani has the inside track. Trump, as we all know, is both emotionally and financially invested in the well-being of New York, and a Mamdani mayoralty could make a Bill de Blasio term look as if the...

Jim Walden has suspended his campaign for New York City mayor, his camp announced Tuesday. “For months I have been steadfast in my view that, unless there is a one-on-one race in November, a Trojan Horse will take control of City Hall. I cannot spend more public money in the futile hope I am the one called to battle,” the beyond-long-shot independent tweeted. A rep for the former federal prosecutor’s campaign did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Post, but a source close to the situation blamed the suspension on “personal problems. A recent poll showed Walden garnering...