Fox News: Cuomo is New York City’s “only chance” of defeating the Democratic mayoral nominee, Zohran Mamdani, the Cuomo campaign doubled down on Tuesday.
Cuomo Tones Down Trump Rhetoric After Stunning Loss To Mamdani In Nyc Mayor Primary.
Meanwhile, Sliwa has distanced himself from the president, maintaining that it wouldn’t be helpful for Trump to intervene in New York City’s mayoral race, after The New York Times’ report that Trump has been speaking with Cuomo and his associates about how to defeat Mamdani in November.
Trump and Cuomo have both denied the phone call ever happened, and the former governor said he wouldn’t accept a Trump endorsement.
The Republican nominee told Fox News Digital on Tuesday morning that Cuomo’s campaign is “a mess,” and said, “desperate people do desperate things.”
“It’s just sad that Andrew Cuomo thinks a Trump headline will save him,” Sliwa said in a statement.
Speaking to reporters at a campaign event in Manhattan on Monday, Cuomo confirmed that he attended the fundraiser at media mogul Jimmy Finkelstein’s home in Southampton on Saturday.
But Cuomo denied that during the fundraiser, he discussed Trump with former NYC City Council President Andrew Stein, who co-hosted the event in the Hamptons.
“Let’s put it this way: I knew the president very well,” Cuomo said in the Hamptons, according to Politico, before adding, “I believe there will be opportunities to actually cooperate with him. I also believe that he’s not going to want to fight with me in New York if he can avoid it.” The comments followed Mamdani’s week-long anti-Trump tour across New York City’s five boroughs.
Mamdani has said he would be Trump’s “worst nightmare” if elected in November. Trump has repeatedly criticized Mamdani, calling him a “100% Communist Lunatic.”
The White House has dismissed the idea that Trump is planning to get involved in the race. “As President Trump has repeatedly stated, he has no intention of getting involved or making an endorsement in the New York City mayoral race,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Mamdani’s stunning victory over Cuomo and nine other candidates last month to capture the Democratic Party nomination rocked the race for mayor in the nation’s most populous city.
And as Cuomo resets as he runs in the mayoral general election as an independent candidate, references to Trump have plummeted.
Adams is also running as an independent candidate. Particularly on immigration, the incumbent mayor has developed a relationship with Trump.
