As of right now, Zohran Mamdani is the overwhelming favorite to be elected mayor of New York. Beyond his appeal to many New Yorkers on a variety of issues—most notably his extremely left-leaning policies intended to deal with the issue of affordability—in a race where three other candidates are poised to split the anti-Mamdani vote, his victory is all but assured.
Many major interest groups in New York believe a Mamdani victory would be disastrous. It is almost impossible to find a business leader who thinks Mamdani would not be highly destructive to the interests of the city. Similarly, many Jewish leaders think that a city with the biggest Jewish population outside of Tel Aviv shouldn’t have a mayor who still cannot disassociate himself completely from slogans supporting a “global intifada,” especially during a time of rising antisemitic incidents.
Moreover, hardly anyone who has expertise in law enforcement and crime reduction believes Mamdani is the best candidate to protect public safety—and for a large proportion of New Yorkers, that issue is right up there with affordability as a top concern.
. . . Tom Rogers is executive chairman of Claigrid, Inc. (the cloud AI grid company), an editor-at-large for Newsweek, the founder of CNBC and a CNBC contributor. He also established MSNBC, is the former CEO of TiVo, a member of Keep Our Republic (an organization dedicated to preserving the nation’s democracy). He is also a member of the American Bar Association Task Force on Democracy.
Jesus Fuck. Whatever the fuck NY passes as Democratic is losing its fucking mind. Lol. Cuomo’s money pimps should pay off Adams to not run. Insanity.
What if I told you I don’t want to stop Mamdani? 🤔
I think, even in a 3 way race, either:
Mamdani/Adams/Republican or:
Mamdani/Cuomo/Republican
He’s going to be hard to stop. Adams and Cuomo both have too much baggage to be viable candidates, and the Republican is… well… Republican.
The Corporate Democrats will split their vote, the minority Republicans will vote Republican and that’s it.
The only way Mamdani loses here is either by cheating, or for the corporate Democrats to pull BOTH Adams and Cuomo and back a new popular candidate without the scumbag history.
But I don’t know who could do that, whoever it is would have to do it secure in the knowledge that the only reason they are being elevated is to block Mamdani. Someone like Jon Stewart would get the vote, but doing it to take out Mamdani would make him feel filthy, he’d never do it.
Or Trump grabs control of NYC and installs one of his idiot stooges in Mamdani’s place.