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    “Let’s put it this way: I knew the president very well,” Cuomo said. “I believe there’s a big piece of him that actually wants redemption in New York. He feels that he was rejected by New York. We voted for Hillary Clinton. Bill de Blasio took his name off things. So I believe there will be opportunities to actually cooperate with him. I also believe that he’s not going to want to fight with me in New York if he can avoid it.”

    Pretty much just handed Mamdani the election…

    All he has to do is run that sound bite in the week or two running up to the election.

    New Yorkers don’t want someone that will work with trump. They want someone who will fight for them against trump.

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    With his corruption and sexual harassment, joining the Trump camp makes total sense for him.

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    “Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani… and you’ll be wasting your vote on Sliwa. So I feel good about that,” Cuomo said in a leaked recording.

    Liberals are in bed with MAGA. Just different kool-aid flavors.

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        Libs and neolibs are the same thing in US politics.

        People who want to make the rich make concessions are leftists.

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      Liberals are in bed with MAGA

      What an absurd and reductive take, have you considered including a drop of nuance with your hyperbole?

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        Liberals are not socialists. If people vote for a socialist that means they’re not voting for a liberal like Cuomo. Actually Mamdani is a “democratic socialist” and some socialists would distinguish that from socialism proper. But his policies are definitely working for the people, which is great to see. Liberals generally work for corporations before the people.

        If you search the web for “Mamdani socialist” you find various flavors of right-wingers and evangelicals in full panic about how he’ll end the world. If you look at his own website you find he proposes affordable buses, rent and childcare, and taxing corporations. Apocalyptic stuff.

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          Honestly, the term liberal, socialist, neo-liberal, etc. are such loaded terms and change constantly. They also are defined on who is hating on me at that moment. I don’t have a term I call myself, but I like Bernie’s ideas 99% of the time.

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            Honestly? They may change constantly for you, which is why you seem confused by them.

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            Those terms have clear, defined meanings and they only change because Americans have no idea what they’re talking about

            Bernie is a social democrat, or maybe a democratic socialist, depending on the day

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            The european VOLT party for that exact reason has done away with these labels for themselfs and their ideas. One word means something different to so many people, despite the ideas being the things you should vote for and not some lable throwing

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    this NY election is the staging grounds for the next presidential election.

    Will there be election interference? national guard show up during the mayoral election day, hitting locations where Zohran is polling well? would the government declare the vote fraudulent and appoint whoever they want? Will the government just arrest/deport/disappear the leading candidate and fabricate a smear campaign?

    keep an eye open and if anyone can, they should resist

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    If NY elects Cuomo, one of America’s most powerful blue states will be in Trump’s pocket.

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      There’s no chance of that happening without some kind of election interference. New Yorkers hate Cuomo. He resigned in disgrace because he’s a sexual predator and because he spent COVID killing everyone’s grandparents and lying about it. By the time he resigned in disgrace, he was a full mask-off villain.

      He’s a nepo-baby politician that got to play King of New York for a very short time because of his daddy’s connections. Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. He’s only doing this at all because, even though he resigned in disgrace, he thinks he’s owed a shot at the White House, and mayor of New York is a first step back into the field.

      I genuinely believe Alan Chartok would have a better shot at being mayor at this point.

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        Trump was found liable for rape, was responsible for fumbling America’s response to COVID killing a lot more than just people’s grandparents, and incited a violent insurrection against the Nation’s capitol and despite all that America handed him back the keys to the Whitehouse.

        The majority of Americans seem to have short memories. Hopefully New Yorkers are better than that.

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    Cuomo is such an embarrassment and a liar to boot. He lied and said he didn’t remember talking to Trump, then tells donors he and Trump have a plan. He tells the public he is Trump’s worst nightmare and then tells donors he has a plan to appease Trump.

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      no you see it’s different this time because Mamdani’s the dem candidate and Cuomo the independent… Pay no attention to how dnc leadership or party leaders refuse to get involved in helping the dem candidate

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    lol didn’t he say in the debate that the thing about him was that he was the only one who could stand up to the orange guy? these cuomos are really the slimiest, most disgustingly unprincipled people… i never understand people who have literally zero shame.