While many people saw Eric Admas, Curtis Sliwa and Zohran Mamdani running for mayor of New York and thought “three’s a crowd”, former governor Andrew Cuomo thought, “the more, the merrier” and declared his candidacy as an independent. Cuomo then implored Sliwa and Adams that the two candidates who are trailing in the polls by September should drop out and support the remaining candidate to defeat Mamdani. Of course, the fact that Mamdani handily defeated Cuomo in the mayoral primary in June was conveniently glossed over. The statement, however, left many stunned at Cuomo’s perception of himself as the only man who can save New York from the socialist utopia that awaits under Mamdani.
Criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman is among the many who are apoplectic with the governor’s actions. He appeared on 710 WOR to rail against Cuomo and Adams for making the mess that Mamdani sees as an opportunity to run New York City.
Lichtman made it clear to host Larry Mendte that none of the choices to stop Mamdani are appealing and blames Eric Adams for not being a better leader in the first place: “Andrew Cuomo is a disgusting opportunist, he’s a liar, he’s a politician- I mean, this is what he is, Larry- they’re all the same. I can’t tell you that any of the three choices that are left are palatable… But when you talk about Eric Adams… (who) has the gall to say to Cuomo, ‘Well, you already lost, let’s get some fresh blood in there’- well, dude, if you were like, even, a quality politician at this point, you would have run in the Democratic primary. The reason he didn’t run is because he knew he couldn’t win!”
Lichtman is most distressed by the stubbornness of all three candidates to refuse to bow out and give voters less overload to split the vote. “The fact that all three of them- none of them- will drop out, is nauseating, because we are going to get a Communist, Hamas supporter for mayor in the greatest city in the world, and this will be the end of New York City. He’s telling us what he’s going to do. He’s not even hiding it.”
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