This is too awful to check…but I had to after I saw it on a friend’s X feed when I fired up the ‘puter this morning.
So split the vote between Cuomo and Adams and let the terrorist sympathizer WIN!
WEEEE!
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) June 27, 2025
VURT DA FURK?!
Not 48 hours ago, everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, because former governor, granny killer, and office Lothario Andrew Cuomo was stick-a-fork-in-him done.
Now, Eric Adams could get on with the job of finishing off the foreign usurper to the Big Apple throne after all the panicked Democrats and business people of the city woke from their horrified stupors and threw themselves into getting him reelected to avoid a catastrophe.
🚨 JUST IN: ANDREW CUOMO is dropping out of the NYC mayoral race, handing a better likelihood of victory to incumbent ERIC ADAMS, per NYP.
The Republican in this race is Curtis Sliwa, but a Republican can NOT win this race.
Never let logic get to your head when there’s an ego as big as Cuomo’s in the mix.
I asked Ladd where he’d read such grim news (X really had nothing on it), and he sent a Fox link, but not before I’d found tons of news agencies abuzz.
Cuomo faced a Friday deadline to withdraw his name from the November ballot. The former governor has been considering whether to actively campaign, and sources say he will wait until next week when the next round of ranked choice voting results are released in the Democratic primary.
He previously announced he would run as both a democrat and independent so he could be on the ballot in November, whether he won the primary or not. On Wednesday, he told Kramer he was still weighing his options.
“We’re going to be looking at the numbers that come in from the primary, and then we have to look at the landscape in the general election, which is a totally different landscape,” he said in an exclusive interview. “There are issues that came up — the issue of affordability, which the assemblyman spoke to with offering a lot of free services — and is that feasible? Is that realistic? Can that be done? So, basically, looking at the landscape in the general election, as it develops, and we’ll take it one step at a time.”
Apparently, there’s also some ego-salving polls telling Cuomo that Adams can’t get the job done if the former governor sits this one out.
Cuomo might not play spoiler in the complicated voting scheme – he might actually play savior.
How whacked is that?
NYC Mayor’s Race: Poll finds Mamdani beats Adams if Cuomo sits out in November – but not if former governor stays in race
Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani’s path to election as mayor this November may very well depend on whether former Gov. Andrew Cuomo stays in the race.
As speculation swirls over whether former Cuomo will continue his campaign as an independent after conceding the Democratic primary to Mamdani, a new poll shows the two candidates in a statistical tie heading into November’s general election.
The polling, conducted independently by the Honan Strategy Group 48 hours after Mamdani’s stunning victory, showed both Mamdani and Cuomo garnering 39% support among likely general election voters in a five-way race between them, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, independent candidate Jim Walden and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who trailed at 13%.
…Brutal popularity numbers for Adams
Looking at how the candidates are perceived in the minds of voters, the June 25-26 survey noted widespread dissatisfaction with Mayor Adams. Two-thirds of voters (67%) disapprove of his job performance, and 75% agree with the statement that he is corrupt and should not seek reelection.
“Adams has a steep hill to climb, given some of the atmospherics around him in terms of how the city is viewed and then second of all, how the voters are seeing and evaluating his tenure as mayor in office,” pollster Bradley Honan said.
For the assumed Democratic nominee, Mamdani, the poll claims he is viewed unfavorably by 48% of voters and favorably by 40%. Cuomo was the only candidate in the findings with a net-positive image: 56% favorable to 43% unfavorable.
“These are from all parties, all boroughs, and mirror the composition of voters that we believe will vote in the November election,” Honan said of the survey.
Is that enough to induce a migraine, or what? Thankfully, while possibly a five-way race at this point, the November election is NOT a ranked-choice scrum.
…Unlike the primary, November’s election does not use ranked-choice voting on the general ballot. Mamdani will likely face four other candidates in the fall: current Mayor Eric Adams, Republican and founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, former federal prosecutor Jim Walden, and possibly Cuomo.
Another part of the Cuomo calculus for continuing might just be the ethnic split among voters on Tuesday. It really was a stunning divergence of the traditional Democratic base, and he might well be hoping to capitalize on that kind of appeal on a broader, city-wide scale.
This is wild. Never mind that Hispanic and black voters backed Cuomo over Mamdani — the fact that Democratic support splits so sharply along ethnic lines is damning. For a party that claims to speak for the marginalized, it’s deeply out of touch. pic.twitter.com/2FbTxA3ywX
Blacks and Hispanics, for the most part, appear to want nothing to do with the new, increasingly more radical progressive Democrats appearing on ballots. Who do the Mamdanis and AOC types appeal to? Upper middle class to upper class, educated white liberals – your limousine liberal set – and younger, hipper blacks. In Mamdani’s case, that ‘Asian’ block includes a good number of the almost 900K Muslims living in New York City. That demographic makes up 9% of the city’s population and is the largest single Muslim group in any major city in the country.
These types of graphs ignore generational divides which are equally significant. He may have performed the worst with black voters overall, but younger black voters were actually his strongest performing racial voting block by % pic.twitter.com/xoCrEmw6O7
For his part, Mamdani is unconcerned about reports that Cuomo will remain in the hunt.
I ALREADY BEAT THAT OLD DUDE
…Burnett asked Mamdani if the report about Cuomo staying in the race “surprised” him.
“Ultimately, Andrew’s decision or my decision matters less than the decision the voters already took on Tuesday night,” he replied on Burnett’s Out Front. “What we saw from Bay Ridge to Dyker Heights to Harlem to Washington Heights, we saw a mandate delivered for a new generation of leadership. And I’m so proud and excited to build on that mandate and ever-expanding coalition.”
Mamdani then listed three endorsements by members of New York’s Jewish political contingency. Mamdani’s success in the Democratic primary also came despite his defiant stance against Israel, which led to accusations of antisemitism that he refuted.
Cuomo’s non-withdrawal of his name from the ballot by the deadline is taking some of the fire out of Eric Adams’ campaign kickoff. That also has to rankle the embattled incumbent mayor on a day when the news about Mamdani should have died down and been ripe for an Adams launch blitz.
Cuomo is banking on appealing to a broader pool of voters than available in the Democratic primary, and he might well be right. Somebody has to stick up for the regular white people in the city and protect them from the rampaging socialist.
They may need a hero.
I have a sense Zohran will moderate many of his 2020 woke beliefs away. But his biggest problem is continuing to campaign like this — which is frankly not even socialist in a true sense. It’s just ugly identitarianism that is not only racist but wildly stupid to say. pic.twitter.com/EkdtuTIdUH
Then again, those regular people might have broader memories, too, and while Adams is generally unpopular for being an inept peacocking buffoon, at least he never killed anyone’s grandparents.
