He actually got a majority of the votes in a 3 person race, with Sliwa's 7.1% being not enough for Cuomo to win even if those votes were given to him, with his 41.6%. Now all those people who promised to leave NYC if MaMdani won, can leave, and what's his face in Texas can insist on a 100% tariff on emigrants from NYC, and the guy from Barstool who legally resides in Florida, can move to Florida, where he supposedly resides. I just can't with all the idiotic posturing.
I couldn't bring myself to vote for Adams or Sliwa in the last Mayoral election, and it will be good to see Adams go.
The New York Times would not endorse Mamdani, suggesting Cuomo would do a good job. Luckily New Yorkers took a different view.
I'm happy Trump didn't somehow rig the election, it actually gives me faith in democracy again. His mother is a filmmaker from India. His father is an academic from Uganda, with Indian heritage. His wife is an artist, born in Texas but of Syrian heritage, moved to Dubai Qatar at 9 with her software developer father and doctor mother. She wants to draw, she's an illustrator. Pretty cool to me. Reflects NYC's diversity and competence.
The exuberance I felt with Obama elected was quickly replaced by the worry at watching so many people trying to block him, obstruct him, undermine him.
The cockamamie attacks are painful. I'm going to pay attention to this administration.
As progressive as NYC is, Long Island re-elected a Trump lover (NY Post). All the major elections went to Democrats.
I believe there's a yin and yang in politics. The president comes in, and then gradually loses power, and all the elections flop to the other side, almost no matter which side. If Mamdani becomes president, there will be slew of Republican governors and mayors.
I live in a almost brown yellow place on the map.
