"That job is a scary job. You wake up as mayor, you wake up as governor, any morning, there's a prison uprising. There was just a mass shooting, there's Legionnaire's disease, there's gonna be a fiscal collapse. Wall Street is moving to doubt,"
"Any given morning, there's a crisis and people's lives are at stake. God forbid another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?"
"This is Andrew Cuomo's final moments in public life and he's choosing to spend them making racist attacks on the person who would be the first Muslim to lead this city. And, frankly, it's not about me. It's about the fact that there are more than one million Muslims who live i"
Andrew Cuomo laughed during a Thursday morning radio interview after a host suggested Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani would cheer if another 9/11 occurred under his tenure. Cuomo criticized Mamdani's experience and warned that the mayor's job requires crisis management amid threats such as prison uprisings, mass shootings, Legionnaires' disease, fiscal collapse, and Wall Street doubt. The host interjected that Mamdani would be cheering, and Cuomo laughed, calling that 'another problem' while questioning Mamdani's readiness. Mamdani called the exchange 'disgusting' and 'racist' in a PIX11 interview, arguing the comments targeted over one million Muslims living in the city.
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