‘Stop-Mamdani’ movement may fail Cuomo despite recent Eric Adams endorsement

Andrew Cuomo was turning up the heat at the Knicks game at Madison Square Garden.

Why was the deposed governor so happy? He was fresh off the last mayoral debate in New York, where he landed some blows on frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, but is still on track to lose the election.

Ah, but the appearance at an NBA game (the league was suddenly tainted by a gambling scandal involving the Mafia!) – yesterday was a photo op with Mayor Eric Adams, who once supported his rival.

So what if he called Cuomo a “snake and a liar” last month?

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But until the Trump Justice Department dropped the case, the number of Adams indicted on corruption charges was in the single digits. So while her endorsement might not get a lot of votes, it could give Cuomo some credibility among the Black community and Orthodox Jews.

New York City politics is a nine-dimensional chess game filled with shifting alliances, heated rivalries, and conflicting narratives. Speaking as a native, you have to understand the melting pot, the townships, the ethnic neighborhoods, Wall Street, Albany; This is an asphalt forest.

New York mayors tend to dominate the media capital, becoming national figures like John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg.

Think it’s a coincidence that Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo, Hakeem Jeffries, and Chuck Schumer are from New York? Come on! What’s crazier about you?

Mamdani, a 1 percent council member, should have been defeated by Cuomo, who made a lazy, entitled effort and lost the Democratic nomination.

From Harlem to Coney Island, Mamdani has proven to be a charismatic campaigner. Former Guardian Angels Republican Curtis Sliwa would probably win even if he left, which he has no incentive to do.

So the race turned into the Stop Mamdani movement; This is mainly because he describes himself as a democratic socialist and has taken some far-left stances in the past, such as defunding the police. Republicans would love to make him the party’s national symbol; Trump regularly accuses him of being a “communist.” But even many Democrats worry that he will drag things out of Apple.

As the son of a governor, Cuomo inevitably seems like the establishment candidate. And Andrew, whom I have known since he was 25 before he ran HUD, has the burden of being forced to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment by 13 women; Mamdani announced that one of them, Charlotte Bennett, was among the discussion audience.

Cuomo said no charges were filed. Meanwhile, Trump made the same move in his debate with Hillary Clinton.

Andrew Cuomo was also held responsible for nursing home deaths during the epidemic.

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New York Times Cuomo has seven “takeaways” for having “more energy” and “dealing more blows” against Mamdani: “He hasn’t run anything, he hasn’t run anything; he’s never had a real job.”

In a classic New York put-down, the former governor said Trump would take on Mamdani: “He thinks he’s a kid and he’s going to hit her with his fist.” (You can look it up. Mayor Koch once called someone an “idiot” and there was a whole debate among the editors about whether I could print it.)

Mamdani countered that Cuomo would merely be “Trump’s puppet.”

If you’re getting the impression that the president is very unpopular in his own city, which has been abandoned to Palm Beach, you’d be right.

While both rivals hit Mamdani over Israel, Sliwa said her two young sons, who are Jewish, do not feel safe.

This is one of the most important points of the job. Washington Postthis results in five “subtractions”.

“He does not think the country should exist as a majority-Jewish state and instead thinks it should focus on equal rights for both Palestinians and Jews. In this debate, attacks on Mamdani, who is Muslim, appeared to become harsher, even though Mamdani insisted he would fight anti-Semitism.”

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani (R) Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa (L) and Independent candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo attend the second New York City mayoral debate held at LaGuardia Community College LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on October 22, 2025 in Long Island City, Queens, New York. (Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP)

Which brings us to a much more personal attack from the Times columnist Bret Stephens“Why Does Mamdani Scare Jews Like Me?” under the title.

It reminds me of some lesser-known stances from the past.

First, when Mamdani founded the Bowdoin College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, he abandoned his collaboration with J Street, a left-wing Jewish group that supports Palestinian statehood and opposes Israeli settlements.

“Why? Because J Street supports Israel as a ‘democratic homeland for the Jewish people.’ This was too much for Mamdani, who to date has not supported Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.”

Second, Mamdani wrote a rap song declaring his love for the “Holy Soil Five” in 2017. The Holy Soil Foundation was an ostensibly charitable organization that was convicted of funneling $12 million to Hamas in 2008, and the defendants were convicted of terrorism and other crimes.

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Three months before the Hamas massacre on October 7, Mamdani introduced a bill that “could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of almost all pro-Israel charities.” Stephens accuses the front-runner of “monomania”.

In a city with the world’s largest Jewish population outside Israel, this is no small matter. But Mamdani has met with rabbis, and some young Jewish voters support her, either because they are focused on her affordability campaign or because they oppose the damage and death toll Israel is causing in Gaza.

And get this: Cuomo removed an AI ad that portrayed Mamdani supporters as looters and drunk drivers as traffickers. “Disgusting,” Zohran said.

That wraps up this piece, right?

To sit! There’s always more drama in the city that never sleeps.

Curtis Sliwa suddenly quit his job at New York’s top radio station, WABC (the rock station of my time).

Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa participates in the second New York City mayoral debate with Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani and Independent candidate and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at LaGuardia Community College LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on October 22, 2025 in Long Island City, Queens, New York. (Photo: Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP) (Photo: HIROKO) MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) ((Photo: Hiroko MASUIKE / POOL / AFP) (Photo: HIROKO MASUIKE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images))

“You’ll never see me in the WABC studios again!” thundered.

Sliwa said the people he hired and trained betrayed him by urging him to quit to stop Mamdani.

Station owner billionaire John Catsimatidis, who ran for mayor a decade ago, also suggested he resign.

Sliwa told host Sid Rosenberg that WABC was biased against Cuomo. As his shouts got louder, Rosenberg said, “You’re going to lose, and you’re going to lose badly, shamefully.”

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I have no idea why Curtis Sliwa quit. But as politicians know, New York is a honking, remote place where everyone takes turns getting angry at each other.

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