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    Buttigieg Praises Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani, Slams Cuomo Over Past Scandals
    Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg praised New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and attacked independent mayoral candidate and former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a recent CNN interview.  Buttigieg lauded Mamdani for already taking “steps that are not just about winning but about trying to bring people together.” “I don’t live…
    Olivia Pero
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    Hey, Cuomo: Get Lost! Give Gotham a Stark Choice for Mayor 
    Political experts are right: Rather than today’s three-man muddle, New Yorkers deserve a clear, binary choice for mayor. So, Andrew Cuomo should abandon his campaign for City Hall.  Notwithstanding his energetic performance in Wednesday’s second of two mayoral debates, Cuomo is a loser. The once-obscure State Assemblyman Zohran Kwame Mamdani of Queens shocked him in the June 24 Democrat…
    Deroy Murdock
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    House Democrat Leader Jeffries Relents, Endorses Mamdani for NYC Mayor
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday endorsed Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani to be New York City’s next mayor, in so doing becoming the most senior-ranking national Democrat figure to support the self-described socialist’s bid for Gracie Mansion. “Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor…
    George Caldwell
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    6 Takeaways From Second NYC Mayoral Debate
    Three candidates entered the ring for the second time in the New York City mayoral race Wednesday night in one of the most closely watched political races in the nation. New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat, is the frontrunner in the race. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is running as an independent…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Evaluates Chances of Defeating Socialist Mamdani If GOP Candidate Quits NYC Mayoral Race
    President Donald Trump said Tuesday that independent New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo has a chance of winning against socialist Zohran Mamdani if the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, drops out. “If he dropped out, maybe Cuomo would have a little bit of a chance, but not much, because it looks like, it’s not a great…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Dangerous Alliances of NYC’s Likely Next Mayor
    It looks like New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is feeling quite confident after his first general election debate. Despite being a self-avowed socialist, the young Democrat upstart seems likely to be the next mayor of the “financial capital” of the United States. Just as remarkably, Mamdani is apparently willing to pal around with…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Gotham’s Next Mayor: A Commie, a Crook, or a Crime-Fighter
    As the battle for New York’s City Hall approaches its Nov. 4 climax, Republicans and conservatives disagree on what to order from the mayoral menu. No one on Gotham’s Right supports State Assemblyman Zohran Kwame Mamdani, D-Queens. The Democrat Party’s mayoral nominee is a self-styled democratic socialist who makes Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., look reasonable….
    Deroy Murdock
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    Trump, Crime Loom Large in New York Mayor Debate. Here Are 4 Key Moments.
    Three candidates debated for the first time Thursday night in New York’s mayoral race. The election has garnered a significant amount of attention this year given the stakes involved. Current Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the race at the end of September, leaving just three major candidates standing. The frontrunner candidate is Assemblyman Zohran…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    NYC Mayor Seeks Protections for Columbus Statues
    THE CENTER SQUARE—Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams is moving to protect a pair of Christopher Columbus statues amid threats from mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, who has called for them to be toppled.  Adams, who steps down at the end of the year after choosing not to run for reelection, told the New York…
    Chris Wade
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    Eric Adams Leaves NYC Mayor’s Race, Warns of Mamdani ‘Chaos’
    Mayor Eric Adams has dropped out of the race for New York City mayor, warning that the election of socialist Zohran Mamdani would sow “chaos.” Adams announced his decision in a video released Sunday. ”Major change is welcome and necessary. But beware of those who claim the answer [is] to destroy the very system we…
    Olivia Pero | Al Perrotta
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    Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police Has a Message for Mayor With ‘No Confidence’ Vote
    Cincinnati’s local response to an attack that occurred one month ago continues to have negative consequences for Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval, as he received a unanimous vote of “no confidence” Monday night from the local Fraternal Order of Police. This comes as the viral mob attack and Pureval’s lackluster response garnered local, state, and federal…
    Rebecca Downs
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    In NYC Mayor’s Race, Adams Asks Mamdani ‘Where in His Quran’ Prostitution Is OK
    Prostitution has taken center stage in the New York mayor’s race, as front-runner Zohran Mamdani is pushing to decriminalize it in the city.  This has prompted one of his opponents, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, this week to question the religious principles of Mamdani, a Muslim.  Mamdani, the Democrat nominee for mayor and a self-professed socialist, championed…
    Fred Lucas
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    Mamdani: Cuomo ‘Conspiring’ With Trump to Rig NYC Mayor’s Race
    THE CENTER SQUARE—New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is accusing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo of “conspiring” with President Donald Trump to rig the election in his favor. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the Queens assemblyman and self-described socialist mayoral candidate pointed to a New York Times report claiming that Trump recently spoke on the phone with…
    Chris Wade
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    Mamdani Is the Mayor New York Democrats Deserve
    That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population—see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly. Which means that if the citizens of New York City vote in Zohran Mamdani as their mayor come…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    There’s Another Democratic Socialist Running for Mayor
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned the nation about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda on Thursday at a press briefing. But there’s another name she could have added.   Meet Omar Fateh, a Muslim democratic socialist running for Minneapolis mayor.   National attention has recently turned toward this 35-year-old native of the District…
    Lucy Spence
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    Mamdani Leads NYC Mayoral Race, Polls Find
    Zohran Mamdani, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist mayoral candidate of New York City, leads the race with 41% of the vote in a recent poll, the New York Post reported.  Mamdani, 33, a New York state assemblyman, beat former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary in a stunning turn of events June…
    Quinn Delamater
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    Dallas Mayor Invites New Yorkers to ‘Sanctuary City From Socialism’
    THE CENTER SQUARE—After the self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani won the Democrat primary for mayor in New York, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson invited New Yorkers and others to move to Dallas. Mamdani has vowed to implement a wide range of tax increases on corporations and property and to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Mamdani as NYC Mayor Would Devastate Economy, Spike Borrowing Costs
    New York City’s economy faces devastating prospects if an avowed socialist wins the general mayoral election in November. That isn’t out of the picture, as Zohran Mamdani, winner of Democrats’ primary on Tuesday and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, pledges to run my former home into the ground, transforming it into an…
    Carrie Sheffield
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    NYC Mayoral Candidate Vows $65 Million in Funds for ‘Transgender’ Care; Penalties for Noncompliant Hospitals
    If elected mayor of New York City, Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani is pledging to spend $65 million in city funds on “gender-affirming care” and vows to penalize any hospital that declines to do the surgeries.  Mamdani also plans to establish a city Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs to provide $87 million in funding that would include…
    Fred Lucas
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    New York’s Embrace of Socialist Mayoral Candidate Is About Liberal Catharsis
    A far-left socialist who has supported defunding the police and replacing them with social workers, abolishing prisons, abolishing private health insurance, banning guns, decriminalizing pretty much every drug, and creating government-run grocery stores won the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City on Tuesday. The race is about more than New York. It’s a harbinger of…
    Jarrett Stepman
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