Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayoral candidate, during a run lawsuit successful New York, US, connected Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.
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President Donald Trump connected Monday nighttime explicitly called connected New York City residents to ballot for Andrew Cuomo implicit Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani successful the mayoral election.
Trump's endorsement of the autarkic candidacy of Cuomo came connected the eve of the election, wherever Curtis Sliwa is the Republican nominee, and wherever Mamdani has consistently held a coagulated pb successful polls.
"A ballot for Curtis Sliwa (who looks overmuch amended without the beret!) is simply a ballot for Mamdani," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post.
"Whether you personally similar Andrew Cuomo oregon not, you truly person nary choice," Trump wrote.
"You indispensable ballot for him, and anticipation helium does a fantastic job. He is susceptible of it, Mamdani is not!"
Trump successful the aforesaid station threatened to withhold national funds from New York if Mamdani, who is simply a self-identified antiauthoritarian socialist, wins connected Tuesday.
"If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly improbable that I volition beryllium contributing Federal Funds, different than the precise minimum arsenic required, to my beloved archetypal home, due to the fact that of the information that, arsenic a Communist, this erstwhile large City has ZERO accidental of success, oregon adjacent survival!" Trump wrote.
Mamdani is not a communist.
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