Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo Secretly Talked on the Phone as Trump Weighs Endorsement in N.Y.C. Mayoral Race: Report
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President Donald Trump has reportedly been talking to New York politicians and businessmen about the field of candidates in the upcoming N.Y.C. mayoral election.
  • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
    150·
    15 days ago

    I can’t think of anything more campaign sinking than an endorsement from Trump in an NYC mayoral race (that Cuomo already lost within his own proported party).

    • criss_cross@lemmy.world
      23·
      15 days ago

      I want this to happen for this very reason.

      Just look what Trumps endorsement did for Canada’s election.

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
      17·
      14 days ago

      It wouldn’t just be a Trump endorsement. It’s putting the might of the conservative propaganda machine behind him. It’s getting Sliwa, the Republican candidate, to drop out and endorse him

      NYC is very Democrat, but the Republican base is still a significant voting block. If they can get that bloc to vote Cuomo, and rally the Adams base (likely offering him immunity/pardons, and some position of power), they represent a sognificant threat to Mamdani, even if he is the most popular candidate by far

      Trump doesn’t believe in free and fair elections. He’s shown he’s more than willing to break the law to get the election results he wants

      • growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
        3·
        14 days ago

        I think you’re correct, if Trump orchestrates all of that (Sliwa and Adams both dropping out) without explicitly endorsing, that could be a threat. But Trump is toxic waste in NYC. Of course everywhere has their share of assholes, but NYers have a long memory for crises specifically. Trump deliberately targeted them during covid, bragged about his building height during 9/11, I could go on. They hate his guts way more than they hate Cuomo.

        • Taldan@lemmy.world
          9·
          14 days ago

          Without interference, I think he’ll win easily. I just don’t have confidence in the integrity of a local election in the current US political climate

          Not to say vote machines will be tampered with, just that there’s a lot of ways Trump and the current political machine can interfere. Especially since anti-Mamdani is something old guard Democrats and Conservatives can agree on

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      14 days ago

      To me, this just absolutely shouts “we’re gonna try to interfere in the election, up to and including fairly overt election fraud, or just declaring someone a winner by appointment and ignoring the election results”.

    • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
      13·
      14 days ago

      Doubt it would work, on the whole the left voters are far far less fucking stupid than the right

  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world
    57·
    15 days ago

    All that bullshit pandemic act of his. Don’t let him back (if you can)! Maybe Bill Maher could offer them both handjobs in these trying times.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      44·
      15 days ago

      He’s going to do the bear hug strategy, worked out great when Biden did it with Bibi.

      Just keep giving in until everyone’s starving.

      • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
        132·
        14 days ago

        When you have Democrats, and Cuomo is a Democrat, being willing to work with Trump like this then it just shows how absolutely corrupt and pathetic he and the party when they haven’t already kicked his ass five ways from Sunday for running as a “independent”.

        Also let’s not forget that the Democratic leadership refuses to endorse Zohran Mamdani.

        Vote blue no matter who right? Right? Snake? Snaaaake!

        Yeah, my ass, this party is pathetically corrupt to the bone.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 days ago

    Oh, please do. That certainly won’t make any Mamdani supporters change their minds, and probably will scare off Cuomo supporrters

  • splonglo@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    Meanwhile Booker refuses to endorse Mamdani. Billionaire class solidarity transcends party politics.