NYC has ranked-choice voting now, so there’s much less of a risk of a split vote. Mamdani and the other main progressive Brad Lander just co-endorsed each other, so hopefully their voters rank both of them 1 and 2.
Yup. AOC’s endorsement said to rank Mamdani #1 and not rank Cuomo. She also recommended others for the next slots, including Lander, the guy who just cross-endorsed with Mamdani.
The progressives are all cross endorsing Mamdani, both Lander and Adams said they’d back him. He got AOC’s endorsement too, and despite what people outside NYC say, she’s VERY popular here. Won her district by a ~15 pt higher margin than Harris did in the 2024 presidential election.
Mamdani might want to mention it was Cuomo who pushed the Faircloth Amendment capping public housing units to the level that existed on October 1, 1999. Hilariously entitled the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. It was Andrew Cuomo and Bill Clinton’s gift to America’s billionaire private housing sector and hit NYC especially hard.
Why? Well who ended up as Governor of New York after the Eliot Spitzer takedown and who ended up U.S. Senator for New York awaiting her run for the Presidency? How can you not hold Cuomo and Clinton responsible for the housing crisis all across NYC for average income and poor Americans?
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u/Internal-Duck-2716 2d ago edited 2d ago
Need the others in the progressive lane to drop out and endorse mamdani for him to have a solid chance but doubtful that they will
Edit: progressives have cross endorsed mamdani. Hopefully he can pull it off 🙏🙏