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In one of the stranger twists in recent memory, former Governor Andrew Cuomo has begun running ads in his bid to become New York City mayor, showing Donald Trump as a persecutory figure in order to drum up votes for Cuomo as a hero who stands up to bullies. Trump and Cuomo have an adversarial history, but are the ads enough to distance him from the growing phenomenon that is Zohran Mamdani and win the Democratic primary next month? More importantly, if Cuomo survives and becomes the Democratic nominee, should he worry about another long-time adversary who could challenge him as the Republican nominee?
Curtis Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels and is the likely mayoral candidate on the Republican side. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program touting why he thinks the Cuomo campaign is in real trouble.
Sliwa told host Larry Mendte that it may be yet another long-time Cuomo adversary who does him in even before Election Day: “Covid spread like fire and caused the death of 15,000 people; he would never acknowledge it, he would never take responsibility for it, and so now the Department of Justice has given that case to their brand-new US attorney in Washington, DC- hasn’t gotten much attention in the press- Jeanine Pirro. So I think she’s going for his jugular on this. He wears it like a badge of courage- oh, this is lawfare, this is Donald Trump’s administration coming to get me- no, Andrew Cuomo… this has to do with the fact that you are responsible for the death of 15,000 elderly people, lied before Congress and tampered with one of the witnesses.”
And if Cuomo survives to Election Day, Sliwa continues to insist the numbers are in his favor to pull out the win: “It’s not just going to be me versus Cuomo. It’s going to be five candidates who are in the general election, four of whom are Democrats. They’re going to eviscerate one another and I’m going to have a path to victory.”
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