#mamdani

#mamdani

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after the meeting's end, Trump said he would be comfortable living in New York City with Mamdani in charge, and that he believes the democratic socialist will surprise some conservatives. It was a marked change from the charged comments the president has leveled at Mamdani both during his campaign and after he won the race earlier this month.

We're happy the two most-important American leaders will meet face to face. But we're not sure why Donald "John" Trump needed to put our incoming mayor's middle name in quotes. Was it to emphasize the incoming mayor's Muslim heritage? (He is, in fact, Muslim.) Was it to suggest that everyone in New York is walking around using Mamdani's middle name. (We're not.)

A Fox News poll released October 30 found Mamdani leading with 47 percent among likely voters, followed by Cuomo at 31 percent and Sliwa with 15 percent. Among registered voters, Mamdani drops slightly to 45 percent and Sliwa rises to 16 percent while Cuomo holds at 31 percent. The poll surveyed 971 New York City likely voters from October 24 to October 28.

One of the most oft-repeated refrains from powerful New Yorkers is that if you continue to raise taxes on the wealthy, like Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is proposing, the rich would simply leave New York to run off to states with lower taxes. "We have to stop the exodus," Andrew Cuomo railed in a Fox Business appearance last week. "If Mamdani becomes the mayor of New York, you're going to see the flight of businesses from New York," hedge fund tycoon Bill Ackman said this summer. "It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city's tax base."

Greenblatt claimed Mamdani had not visited a synagogue during his campaign, despite evidence showing Mamdani attended Shabbat services and participated in various Jewish community events.

"When I hear some of the plans that [Mamdani] has for New York City, again, it's that, 'copy, paste,'" Cuban-born Miami resident Karen Rodriguez told Fox News Digital. "It's just very triggering because it doesn't work... You have Cubans, they make it here to the United States, and they go into a grocery store and they cry... When was the last time you cried in a grocery store? Never, right? Because it's so normal, and we take it for granted."

"Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman [Zohran Mamdani], are occupying her rent-controlled apartment."

Mamdani's campaign could show us a different side of politics in New York that speaks to Black voters based on their material needs, rather than a monolithic 'Black vote.'

Mamdani's victory signifies a falling away of the political establishment's old tricks, suggesting new political dynamics emerging within the Democratic Party.

"Tonight, we made history," said Mamdani after defeating Cuomo in the primary, marking a significant milestone as he aims to be the first Muslim and Indian American mayor of NYC.