Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old member of the state Assembly had a significant lead in the race Tuesday night.
Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist member of the state Assembly, started to pull ahead with more than an estimated 80% of ballots counted.
Not the mayor I want, but then again I didn’t particularly want Cuomo either. I wish there had been a viable centrist candidate who hadn’t resigned in shame from his last position.
Insisting on “Viable centrist candidates” no matter how far right the GOP moves the Overton Window is how you get fascism.
At this point, a “Centrist” in the US is far right by the standards of democracies in general.
It is probably a dog whistle for Zionist. Mamdani has been outspoken against Zionism.
checks comment history of ArbitraryValue
Yup, sure seems to be a zionist at any rate…
People can also fall for and parrot a dog whistle without understanding it.
At any rate it is ridiculous how the New York City mayor race was centered around whether the candidates “support Israel” or are “antisemites”.
There are no serious GOP candidates for mayor in New York - that’s why the Democratic primary rather than the general election is such a big deal. And the local Overton window is moving so far left that a man who supported Defund the Police back when it was cool (he says he doesn’t anymore) is probably going to be the next mayor.
If you think fence sitting is the way to pull us out of the situation we’re in, maybe just sit out the next few election cycles, champ.
Getting a liberal with ethics. Good luck.
If performative ethics were an Olympic sport…
Watching the commentary would be hilarious.
What does “viable centrist” mean in the context of a NYC mayoral election?
I’d say that Adams ran as a centrist candidate. Bloomberg too.
You’re only counting how they ran, not how they performed as mayors?
Because Adams has hardly performed as a mayor the way he campaigned. He certainly didn’t campaign on taking lots of bribes. And, for some reason, when he ran he managed to pretend he wasn’t a former cop, but when he took office his coppiness sure came back out.
Yes, and I’m certainly unhappy about Adams’ performance (as are most New Yorkers). However, I think you’re wrong about his status as a former cop - it was not something he hid or downplayed when he was campaigning, and many people voted for him because he was the law and order candidate.
Ok, you’re right that he didn’t pretend he wasn’t a cop. I guess I meant it more in the sense of he sold himself as someone who was no longer a cop, and was going hold them to account. For example:
https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1358966542747250689
This is something cops almost never do. They never go after their own. If a former cop had actually gone after bad cops, it would have been a really newsworthy thing. Cynics never believed he would do that, because they know how cops (both former and current) care much more about other cops than they do about the public. But, I think some people believed that he was telling the truth and that he’d try to clean up the police force.
So, did he crack down on bad cops? Of course not. He backed a secret police unit filled with those same bad cops. In fact, he got special live-stream feeds from their body cameras.
https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency
I’m cynical, but I’d never vote for someone who had been a cop for 20 years, and I’d certainly never believe them if they said they were going to reform the police department. Maybe I’d believe it if someone had been kicked out of the police for being a whistle blower. But, someone who worked as a cop for 20 years then stepped down to run for political office? Nah dude, that guy is always going to side with the cops. If he’s not a bad apple himself, he’s definitely spoiled along with the rest of the bunch.