I have honestly never seen a mayoral election before this year’s New York City race that has garnered the attention of the entire country.
People on both sides of the aisle have become obsessed with Zohran Mamdani.
That trend now extends to former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who just issued a stern warning to New Yorkers.
I would imagine that few people anticipated Mamdani winning the Democratic Party mayoral primary race.
After current Mayor Eric Adams was more or less eliminated due to his corruption scandal, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo entered the primary race to challenge Mamdani.
This looked to be game, set, and match in Cuomo's favor after the Dems pulled out all the big guns to endorse him, but it did not work.
Mandani won the primary race easily, sending Cuomo to run as an independent if he hoped to hold office again.
Mamdani was initially polling very well, but he started to slip a bit, so I naturally thought that once all the recent negative reports about him were published, voters would wake up and move away from the radical candidate, but that did not happen.
Either the poll that initially showed him losing support was an outlier, or the people of New York truly do want socialism, because Mamdani has started to soar in surveys again.
In the latest polling, Mamdani was over 50% support, and this includes in a head-to-head battle with Cuomo, and it is not even close.
With the election only three months away, I don’t see how Cuomo has any shot to make up the ground, and that is especially true if Adams and Curtis Sliwa, the GOP candidate, stay in the race.
Ramaswamy is hoping that voters realize that this is about so much more than just New York City. He stated, “It’s a fork in the road for the future of the country. And it’s not just about one candidate in New York who represents the socialism wing. You look at the rise of [mayoral candidate Omar] Fateh in Minneapolis.”
He then had a message for the GOP, adding, “My advice to Republicans across the country is this is our chance to actually offer the vision to make the case for why free enterprise, why capitalism, is the best system known to the history of man.”
I have to be honest… when I saw Mamdani win the primary, my initial reaction was to give New Yorkers what they voted for and let them face the consequences, but I have since thought better. I have come to realize this is about far more than just New York City.
If we hand a major American city over to this man whose entire agenda goes against our Constitution, his movement would only gain momentum. Sadly, I don’t know how we stop him, because Cuomo and Adams are both awful candidates, and all the GOP has to offer is Sliwa. I don’t like Ramaswamy, but I do agree with his sentiment here… the GOP needs to put a consistent message out there and start to pick off voters as they fall out of love with Mamdani.
