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9 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

Would it work like the jungle primary system? One universal primary for every candidate, and then top two move to the general.

I have no clue and without an explanation of what an open primary would look like I’m not voting yes on it. Why would I want republicans to get together and vote on the democratic candidate that THEY would prefer? Because republicans in nyc largely have to put up with democrats in high positions?  Republicans definitely would cry foul if democrats did that.  I’m assuming you can only vote in one primary. Why would anyone give up a chance to vote for their preferred party candidate? I know republicans would have loved to vote in this Dem mayoral primary and that would have sucked but still I would only be for it for independents. They too would get to participate which is the only plus from what I can tell 

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NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo is scrambling to shore up backing for a general election run, even as pillars of support for his New York City mayoral campaign crumble.

The former governor and his advisers have courted Democratic elected officials, business leaders and labor chiefs who endorsed his failed primary bid in an attempt to keep them in his fold for November, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations.

In phone calls since his double-digit loss to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, Cuomo has insisted there’s a path forward in a five-candidate general election field and referenced public polling that showed him neck-and-neck with the state lawmaker.

So far, the argument doesn’t seem to be working. Two key components of Cuomo’s base — Black leaders and unions — are abandoning his campaign. The developments call into question whether Cuomo, whose institutional support was unmatched in the primary, would have any establishment backing in a general election.

A November victory would be extraordinarily difficult against a Democratic nominee in a deep-blue city — and even harder without significant outside support.

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Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi in a statement said general election voters won’t embrace Adams’ Trump alliance or Mamdani’s hard-left politics.

“Everyone is entitled to their own political opinion — we understand President Trump supports Eric Adams, and do not believe socialism is the answer,” Azzopardi said. “Most New Yorkers are not Trumpers, and most New Yorkers are not socialists — the majority lies in the middle. We will continue to assess the current situation in the best interest of the people of the city of New York.”

Cuomo’s general election pitch, in part, is that a November electorate will be different than a closed party primary. A general election will turn out independents and Republicans who could be persuaded to vote for the moderate former governor over Mamdani and Adams, Cuomo’s team has asserted. Ranked-choice voting, which Cuomo did not utilize as a strategy after being endorsed by fellow mayoral candidate Jessica Ramos, will not be used in the general election.

Adams and Cuomo share a base that includes Black New Yorkers, Jewish voters and blue-collar people who live outside Manhattan. In one phone call with a state lawmaker, Cuomo acknowledged Adams’ presence in the race would make a November victory harder to achieve.

The former governor, though, insists he would be able to win in a race that includes an untested Mamdani.

“He believes there is a path forward and wants to take it,” one Democratic state lawmaker, who was granted anonymity to relay the private conversation with the former governor, told POLITICO.

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The wealthy donors who backed Cuomo’s primary bid are also not guaranteed to follow him into November.

A Cuomo-allied super PAC raised $25 million to support his primary bid, though the money did little to blunt the momentum of Mamdani’s volunteer-powered campaign. The group, which received $8.3 million from billionaire former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as cash from real estate and financial industry titans, has not determined its next steps in the general election.

Adams, meanwhile, met last week with business leaders — including those who supported Cuomo’s super PAC.

“After Andrew Cuomo’s loss, the phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” Adams campaign spokesperson Todd Shapiro said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/andrew-cuomo-new-york-sharpton-00437927

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Sharpton was on NY1 and he thinks Cuomo should drop out for the good of the City. I agree.  He would just take away votes from Mamdani, giving us a second Adams term. Ofc that might happen anyway because I’m sure there are plenty of people unwilling to vote for Mamdani. They’d rather hold their nose and vote for the Trump puppet instead. I shudder to imagine what a second Adams’ term would look like 🫠

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Game of chicken: Eric Adams, Cuomo want each other out of NYC mayoral race

The incumbent New York City mayor and Andrew Cuomo are each calling on the other to drop out, Adams said Monday.

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NEW YORK — Two independent candidates in the New York City mayoral election — incumbent Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo — have been trying to get each other to drop their campaigns in the hopes of beating Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani.

So far, neither is budging.

Adams said Monday that Cuomo is the number one obstacle standing in the way of his reelection and called for him to step aside.

“I think he really should do an analysis and say: Give Eric an opportunity to run against [Zohran],” Adams said during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

The mayor also revealed Cuomo had called him to ask the same thing.

“I’m the sitting mayor of the City of New York, and you expect for me to step aside when you just lost to Zohran by 12 points?” Adams asked in the CNBC interview, citing the nearly $30 million in outside spending on behalf of Cuomo by super PACs and the candidate’s own warchest.

“They heard your message. You lost … that’s the highest level of arrogance,” he added, accusing Cuomo of having a long history of undermining Black candidates, including former Gov. David Paterson, former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall and Charlie King. (Paterson and McCall endorsed Cuomo’s mayoral run earlier this year and King has been a key player in Cuomo’s campaign.)

The inclusion of Cuomo and Adams on independent lines on the November ballot is making the general election more competitive than any in recent memory. Attorney Jim Walden is also running on an independent line, while Curtis Sliwa is running under the Republican banner.

Last week, Walden proposed an independent survey to determine which of the four candidates would be best suited to stop Mamdani. He argued the weaker candidates should then pledge to support the strongest challenger, even though it is too late for anyone to remove their names from the ballot.

On Monday, Cuomo’s team acknowledged the tough math facing the pack of moderates and the GOP candidate: On their current trajectories, they are set to carve up the non-Mamdani vote into several inconsequential pieces. Cuomo and Adams in particular stand to split their shared base of Black voters.

Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi reiterated his team’s belief that Adams does not have a path, but said his candidate is considering Walden’s pitch.

“This is the time to put aside the usual political selfishness and agree to do what is truly best for all New Yorkers,” Azzopardi said in a statement. “While we review this proposal, we call on other candidates to do the same.”

Paterson sounded a similar alarm bell Monday.

At a press conference in midtown, he called for a single independent candidate to challenge Mamdani in the general election, but he declined to name who he thinks should drop out of the election or how they might be persuaded.

“We can do this, but it’s going to take a united effort, and it’s going to take some sacrifice that someone is going to have to make,” he said.

Mamdani’s victory in the primary has sent the city’s business and real estate circles into a panic, and the November election is unusually crowded for a city whose deep-blue electorate typically picks the next mayor during the Democratic primary.

Polls have consistently shown Cuomo out-perform Adams in a general election. Even a survey with questions that appeared to skew in favor of the incumbent still found Mamdani winning and Adams behind Cuomo by double digits — a dynamic that may make Cuomo more amenable to Walden’s proposal.

Adams laced into Mamdani on Monday as well, accusing him of peddling unrealistic plans and arguing the democratic socialist tapped into a readymade base of support from voters disaffected by President Donald Trump’s victory.

Mamdani’s campaign indeed captured a more traditional base of progressive New Yorkers. But he won over communities that typically vote more moderate, like Latino and south Asian neighborhoods in Queens, and expanded the electorate to capture younger voters.

Adams said Monday he was going to do something similar.

“We’re going to mobilize a million new voters who woke up on the day after the election, on the 25th, and said: Oh my god, let’s listen to what [Mamdani] is saying.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

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1 hour ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

THEY GON FUCK EACH OTHER IN THE ASS YEEEEAAAAAH *FFFFFFT* YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

 

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Eric Adams’ crusty boney hide pressed up in the air while Chris Cuomo 2 inch non lubed lil stubby tries to erupt inside his butt before brother Andy emerges.

 

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This thread is going off the rails 😆

see what happens when too many rich people publicly get away with crimes?  The rest of us plebs refuse to act right anymore 🫠😆🫠😆

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2 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

Game of chicken: Eric Adams, Cuomo want each other out of NYC mayoral race

The incumbent New York City mayor and Andrew Cuomo are each calling on the other to drop out, Adams said Monday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

Sliwa’s gonna win. He doesn’t even need to campaign anymore. All he’s gotta do is let this shit play out. It’s a circus 

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Most articles have the Democratic establishment and even Silwa being called on to agree on one anti-socialism candidate to put forward, rather than risk splitting the vote and allowing Mamdani to win and having dirty socialism in the mayor's office.  Of course if all else fails, they probably will ask Trump to declare the election invalid due to socialism and have Mamdani deported to the El Savador Supermax.

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18 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

a world where everyone all drops out except mamdani, and that stops mamdani from winning

Yeah this shit is confusing. They don’t mention an alternative so who is replacing Sliwa?

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4 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Yeah this shit is confusing. They don’t mention an alternative so who is replacing Sliwa?

The concept is that Sliwa, Cuomo, Adams, and Walden would all agree amongst themselves to collectively support one of the four so that it's a 1v1 race because they are splitting the anti-Mamdani vote, but they're all infighting to be the chosen one.

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The concept is that Sliwa, Cuomo, Adams, and Walden would all agree amongst themselves to collectively support one of the four so that it's a 1v1 race because they are splitting the anti-Mamdani vote, but they're all infighting to be the chosen one.

wtf is Walden, now?!? wtf did he come from? 😆😆

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Idk wth is gonna happen maybe Mamdani wins but idk, this might be a plus for Adams. 
Mamdani is already walking back some things he has said acknowledging that some things are just not likely to happen cuz politics.  While that might ease concerns for people in the center the younger and/or more left leaning voters might get turned off and just not show up to the  polls in November 

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4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

Lol republicans want to 14th amendment Mamdani. People do stupid shit when they’re ascared 

Stupid young republicans 😆

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5412579-insurrection-clause-mamdani-mayor/amp/

I'd love to see how they define 'insurrection' without saying anything in the slightest that would make it sound like they are talking about Jan 6th. 

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