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Good luck nearly doubling the minimum wage and raising taxes to pay for free childcare and rent free government housing he is promising. The baby baskets are done in places like Finland. That could probably work. 

Just now, GalagaGuy said:

So because someone on the far left won a primary against a disgraced democrat, that means AOC can win all the swing states in 2028.   Is that what some are getting at? 

Its emboldens them now to push El-Sayed on Michigan voters. When he inevitably loses, they will claim it was rigged. 

8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I do give her credit for playing the 2024 election well, but I'm on her spamming list  - so I get some kind email almost daily, the stuff she is sending recently does not strike me as very useful for building a better winning coalition. Of course IMV, the time she has spent on the NYC mayoralty is a diversion anyway. I can't think of anyone from the NY mayors office from either party in recent decades who has successfully used that as a springboard to becoming a national leader/winning Federal office. Maybe MB should be happy if Mamdani wins in NYC because it probably means he will be politically cul-del-sac'd.  

Giuliani was a front runner in 2008 until Biden ripped his soul out in the Democratic debate. I think that's why Giuliani has had it out for Biden. 

Guess Whitmer going to DC and getting played by Trump didn't help her. 

Establishment Dems are supporting Mamdani even though leftists **** on Jeffries all the time.

7 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Imagine melting down this much over a progressive mayor winning when we have MAGA running amok. 

Could be worse, I could start an uncommitted and abandon Mamdani movement. 

It's not the fact he's progressive, he wants to globalize the Intifada and has extreme policy positions. 

7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

the problem is you would never know it listening to people like AOC. They haven't learned the art of supporting the team while playing your own game on the side. It's a curious paradox that diversity of person is such a mantra from the the prog left, which is fine, but they love ideological conformity just as much as any other movement.

Their whole movement is being anti-establishment. They would lose their support if they backed the "establishment." Bernie Sanders, who's been in Washington for 35 years, is somehow not establishment though. 

6 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Wait. I thought attacking competence was what MAGA does?

Horseshoe theory. 

Just now, Hongbit said:

The politics of Gaza shouldn’t have anything to do with the mayoral race in NYC.  The immigrant population of the city is a heavy majority Caribbean and South American.    They don’t care about it.   The constituents that care are the large Jewish population and they are on the opposing side of the issue from Mamdani.  

He’s taken a personal issue and made a large talking point in his campaign policy.  This is a problem for him that shouldn’t exist.  He’s got to find a way to move completely off Gaza and not make it any issue moving forward.  That’s going to be hard to do since the right will be doing everything they can to keep it on the front page.  

Just wait until the city passes a resolution for a ceasefire like Chicago and their leftist mayor did. 

3 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Stefanik and MAGA would have sent out breathless fund-raising emails if Cuomo won, or anyone won. the GOP called Obama, the most conservative democrat since Truman, a socialist.

I really effing hate that Dems are always on the defensive - what will MAGA do? how will conservative media lie? that is at the core of the old time Dems were/are terrified about his win. stop it. his message is mostly silly, not evil, and he will need to send in the cops the first time Hamas supports riot.

but this guy will be on Fox so much that you will think he was one of the 4 trans athlete in the NCAA

Because Dems don’t rally support around their candidate like Mamdani with Biden for example. 

3 minutes ago, romad1 said:

The real problem will be the multi-million dollar parades he orders to celebrate his birthday.  How he will defund the public health offices because he has crackpot friends.  He will invite his oligarch friends into the datasets of all city citizens and drop taxes on them to laughable low levels and stop all enforcement of tax code violations.  Then he'll wage a totally uninformed war on science and then demand to win a noble prize for his mounting an unsanctioned attack on a foreign country. 

That’s about the gist of it.

50 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I love the whole Mamdani will be a disaster, as if a right wing Democrat like Eric Adams hasn't been a complete ****ing disaster during his tenure. The dude got investigated and indicted on corruption charges for god sakes.

Just wait until the guy tries to turn grocery stores into state run stores and raise the minimum wage to $30 while defunding police. We seen when the leftist captured the Nevada legislature, it was a disaster. 

It’s funny how Mamdani now excepts Dems to fall in line behind him. They should show him the same support he showed Biden. 

I'm not as convinced. Adams is the incumbent and was a Democrat and has won before. I think he will be a strong candidate. Splitting it 4 or 5 ways, I could see a path for Adams. I could see Adams getting more of the Cuomo vote than Mamdani. 

What an absolute **** sandwich when your top three choices are Mamdani, Cuomo and Adams. The only thing worse would be if Giuliani decided to come back and run. 

I'm not convinced Cuomo voters automatically go to Mamdani. I'm also not convinced Cuomo doesn't run as an independent, further muddying things. 

Are we even sure he beats Eric Adams?

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

it goes back the disaster the Democrats are that they can't run a better centrist candidate than the sleazeball. They should be building the coalition to swamp the midterms and instead they still close to 100% in circular firing squad formation.

I think it's more of an issue no one wants to be mayor of New York. Dems have great centrist candidates across the country. 

If I lived in New York, I would demand Mamdani earn my vote or else I'm going to vote for Jill Stein. 

Just now, mtutiger said:

The candidate that a lot of establishment figures (such as the NYT, Bill Clinton, others) backed was a literal sex pest who had to resign from his last job in disgrace... and who campaigned almost entirely on his last name and felt entitled to a job running a city that he didn't live in until 5 minutes ago.

Mamdani is pretty far to the left of me, but even I would have ranked him over Cuomo if I lived in New York... he had no business being in this race except for his own personal reasons. (Sound familiar?)

That should tell you what a disaster Mamdani will be.