"At the bar, one man told his friend it was 'embarrassing.'... With people clearly losing interest, campaign staff sprang into action. They hurried the remaining crowd to the front of the stage.... Cuomo immediately tried to cast his loss as a success, telling the crowd: 'This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic party, the future of this city and the future of this country.' He said tha[t] 50% of New Yorkers had not voted for Mamdani’s agenda...."
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"Nobody likes a sore loser – but Cuomo declines to bow out gracefully/Despondency reigned at the Ziegfeld Ballroom – and then the defeated candidate found it hard to praise the victor" (The Guardian).
Cuomo was a terrible candidate. He should take responsibility for that. New Yorkers had an array of clowns and picked the one with the smiley face.
AND: "Only a uniquely hated politician with his connections and campaign coffers could bungle an election versus a political unknown this badly. Whether it was his bare-bones daily schedules that spent more time with donors than voters or his desperate flip-flopping on issues like closing Rikers Island during the campaign, Cuomo proved one thing to be true: the only thing he has ever believed in is his own ambition" — from
"Andrew Cuomo’s embarrassing loss to Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral election ends Cuomo family political dynasty" (NY Post).
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Mario Cuomo left the Presidential race in 1992 because he calculated George Bush Sr. was unbeatable.
And Mario Cuomo was the best of the Cuomos.
Dynasties suck, as a rule.
Then again... I have multiple friends, Brooklyn, Queens, UWS, who are actually quite excited for Mamdani. I think Mamdani won, as much as Cuomo lost.
Regardless of his politics (and I hate his politics), he, and AOC, are the brightest young political talents on the national scene. The only person comparably skilled on the right was Charlie Kirk.
“ New Yorkers had an array of clowns and picked the one with the smiley face.” Ann Althouse
That sums it up.
Ground zero zero
Of course Cuomo has to blame the only Republican in the race, instead of stepping down himself, since he LOST the primary. Cuomo is his own worse enemy.
The new NJ Governor says she will freeze electricity prices. Good luck with that.
AOC will be running for President now.
They walked in the winning run.
Fvck NYC. They’ll get what they voted for, breadlines and bankruptcy.
Democrats shit the bed and then expect Republicans to wipe their asses. Day ending in y.
Let the Grand Experiment begin!
To state the obvious, Mamdani had more votes than both his opponents combined. Doesn't sound like Sliwa's the issue.
But to borrow from something someone said elsewhere, why are we surprised when radical leftist win elections in places people with common sense are leaving in droves?
Cuoumo’s comeuppance is the only good thing to come out of the campaign.
No matter what the future may bring, for me New York City will always be the place where they made It's Bruno!
Here’s to the New York that once was:
The World of Henry Orient (for rent Amazon Prime)
…as noted yesterday one can hope Mandanni’s victory is the end of a failure rather than the beginning of one…
@ Money Manger
J.D. Vance has entered the chat.
..now that the money scams are being exposed hopefully they dry up and it leads to these grifters getting their poltical comeuppance…
People never learn from history. They have to screw things up for themselves. Then a new generation arises that hasn't learned the lessons of those screwups. The median age of New York City residents is about 38 years old. The Cold War ended in 1991, 34 years ago, which means that more than half of New Yorkers were children or not even born yet. They are poorly educated and know nothing of communism's bloody history. "Free stuff for all!" sure sounds great, doesn't it. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" "Seize the means of production!" There was a reason that I served two tours of duty in Germany on the frontier of freedom. Today's younger generations have forgotten that reason or never known it to begin with. It is a harsh lesson that young New Yorkers will have to learn for themselves, and then perhaps be inoculated for a few decades until another generation of know-nothings arises.
Did Cuomo ever offer a vision for where he planned to take the city if elected? If so, I missed it.
The view from Florida:
Someone just chucked a chunk of potassium into a beaker of water in the laboratory of democracy. Best wishes to NYC while our local realtors rub their hands in anticipation of the exodus.
Hope I stick around long enough to see the aftermath and recovery.
NYC enters the good and hard phase.
Cuomo ran like what he is...a nepo baby who felt entitled to the job.
NYC is getting the government they deserve. It is not Silwa that gave it to them. They did it to themselves.
Remember how nepotism, entitlement, and connections to the party hierarchy ended up with the Democratic Party having a nominee that a lot of voters really didn't want (which was one reason they had bypassed her for Obama 8 years before)? And then that nominee lost to an outsider? Yeah, Cuomo and his supporters should have remembered that.
Both parties should resolve: There shall be no nominees who are family members of previous holders of the office.
(I would push that further and support an Amendment barring close relatives--at least spouse, ex-spouse, sibling, or child--of people who have held national elected office or cabinet-level appointed office from being on the ballot. Those people can go serve the country some other way with their wonderful and unique talents. Before you say this is extreme, think of the people we'd have been free of: Bush II, Gore, Hilary Clinton, Cuomo, Rand Paul, Liz Cheney, Goresuch--it's win/win for both parties! Imagine how much better off the country would be if all those people had done something--ANYTHING--else. And we'd also never again have to hear about the hypothetical political futures of Michelle Obama, Jared Kushner, Don Jr., Baron, or any other Bushes! The more you think about it, the more you realize that it would be the Best. Amendment. Ever.)
"Did Cuomo ever offer a vision for where he planned to take the city if elected? If so, I missed it."
Cuomo's campaign was quite reminiscent of Kamala's.
The billionaire money changers lost NYC. That's something to celebrate. While I am very sceptical of his agenda, I wish the young mayor well. These are my exact opinions of Trump. Those of you rooting for failure are seditious traitors.
I'm long Uhaul. Panel vans...start your engines.
"he, and AOC, are the brightest young political talents on the national scene."
No. Their bullshit won't play outside of deep blue areas.
You don't have to "root for failure" when it's assured.
The American city with the most Jews has just elected as Mayor an anti-Semite.
As einstein said
Not merely so a man who hates the city with a passion
’This campaign was to contest the philosophies that are shaping the Democratic party, the future of this city and the future of this country.'
They chose the inevitable form of their destructor.
Cuomo was so good he managed to lose twice to the same nobody - once in the primary, once in the general. Of course, it must be someone else's fault.
It takes skill to do that
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/replacing-the-gerontocracy-with-an
What is likely to happen in a Mamdani mayoralty? Not much really - the trajectory was already set and will continue. His dream of "free" bus fares will hit the rock of reality that taking $1 billion out of the transit system will not improve it. Tax increases will certainly come, but the leftist city council is always up for more of those. Rent freezes will be tricky, as there are actual laws (and a rent control board) that are not subject to mayoral whim. The new mayor may be able to suborn enough members of the board to have his way, but it will yield a lifetime of litigation. I expect Mamdani's greatest success will be in reducing and/or neutering the police force. There are plenty who will enjoy the result of this, and plenty more who will not. Experience may or may not change perspectives.
The only certainty is that the city-owned grocery stores of Mamdani's dream will pop and fizzle, as they have everywhere. Selling goods without a profit motive is an untenable business, as any drug dealer can tell you.
Cuomo should have bowed out after he lost the primary and rallied his supporters behind Sliwa - the better candidate.
"Clowns?" I take it that Althouse did not find Sliwa's raspberry beret fetching. On a more serious note, Mamdani's smiley face slipped off last night in his victory speech.
I think so, but the menu will be pain
What's the difference between a Socialist and a Fascist?
Mamdani promises his buses will run on time. Mussolini's trains actually did.
The people who make the city work, not livable, but actually operate, will leave. The kiosk vendors. The bodega owners. The little things you take for granted on your way to work will disappear.
NYC will return to reason when it's forced to. I remember NYC going bankrupt before they finally wised up the last time, but their wisdom is rare and ephemeral. Bless their hearts.
I also old, I remember when Andrew Cuomo was hailed as the Dems alternative to Trump 45 because of hid masterful way of handling Covid.
You can't make this shit up. The Dems and their media minions know they can gaslight at least half the population most of the time.
Apparently, the plump NYC sheep like being shorn. Next they'll discover exactly what the wolf they elected as their mayor will be having for dinner.
I dont think so london hasnt
Spoiler its a cook book
Despite the disappointment on the right, you will notice a distinct lack of riots and violence from that side or even violent rhetoric. We are not the same.
When whatever bad jihadi-adjacent thing happens next in that city, every American will hopefully just 'meh' on with their lives.
We are not the same.
Indeed. We also don't vote in to office politicians that openly talk about murdering their opposition's family.
De Blasio's fundraising for his private "Charity" fund, Adams' envelopes full of money, Cuomo's everything, NYC Democrats, meaning the voters, are right to dislike and not trust their traditional Democratic candidates and want an outsider. I suspect Momdani's policies will be failures. And the silver-lining is, it will give a foil for Trump and Republicans.
’And the silver-lining is, it will give a foil for Trump and Republicans.’
That’s the key political takeaway. Trump will enjoy hanging the albatross around the left’s neck. I eagerly await his nickname for the Zotard…
I call him the cobra
I dont see anything good coming out of gotham the demon dogs werent cute doggies
Sadiq Khan, mayor of London, sends his greetings.
It's been quite a few years since I've been in NYC, and I guess it'll be quite a few more, if ever I return.
When the supply of something exceeds demand, the price goes down - so I guess the good news is, housing will become more affordable. There's a campaign promise, waiting to be met ! Good Luck, NYC. Don't rely on the 'Prodigal Son' story coming to pass, though. Remember: Commies are atheists.
Homer was right in the 80s
Back when the simpsons were still funny
This is the European way. Politicians who were once fervent Young Socialists end up running countries. Do they bring in true Socialism? Somehow they don't get that far. Maybe they stopped trying. Do they run their countries into the ground? We'll see. It's happened in Latin America. Maybe that's the more accurate analogy.
Could Cuomo Sr. have beaten Bush? I guess it's possible with Perot in the race, but he wouldn't have had the support from the South that Clinton had. Somehow, when Bill Clinton said that things were horrible people believed him in a way that they didn't believe other Democrats. Cuomo was likely to be shrugged off as Mondale, Dukakis were.
I doubt Cuomo Jr's ex-inlaws supported him. Maybe RFK Jr. will buy him a drink and commiserate.
'The people have spoken, and now they must be punished.' Ed Koch
You can't blame Sliwa. Mamdani won more than 50% of the vote. Well, at least he's likable, but maybe that's the problem. DeBlasio had the saving grace of being pompous and icky. There's no way he could appeal to the little old lady in Peoria. Mamdani can.......Also that fat fuck Bragg won 73% of the vote in Manhattan. Are my neighbors here really that crazy. On the other hand, crime (with the exception of shoplifting) is way down. Maybe they know something I don't.
Face it, New Yorkers are assholes.
Ann stated -
"Cuomo was a terrible candidate. He should take responsibility for that. New Yorkers had an array of clowns and picked the one with the smiley face."
Indeed.
Sliwa should have dropped out of the race. He's always been an attention seeking clown, so I guess he was in good company.
taking $1 billion out of the transit system will not improve it.
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are inter-borough lyft/uber driving pay congestion?
Yes
Yes, for-hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft are subject to congestion pricing in New York City. They will charge passengers an additional $1.50 per ride for trips that begin, end, or pass through Manhattan's congestion zone. This charge is part of the city's effort to reduce traffic congestion and improve public transit usage.
which is better monikker
chicago on the east river or chicago on the hudson
"Cuomo was a terrible candidate. He should take responsibility for that. New Yorkers had an array of clowns and picked the one with the smiley face." The Professor nails it! Yesterday when I walked into my polling place, I felt like vomiting, faced with choosing between an Islamosocialist, a mass grandma-killing, narcissistic ghoul and a has been talk show host who lives with 20 cats (I love cats but 20? Really?).
Old and slow said...
Sliwa should have dropped out of the race.
Why? He was never going to get more than a smallish fraction of the vote, and Cuomo could easily have gotten a plurality (like Mamdani did) if the Democrats had been serious about electing him, Sliwa or no Sliwa.
Like I said above, I'm happy to let the NYC Democrats lie in their own shit. For quite a while, going back to at least the mid-1990s when Newt Gingrich called Bob Dole "the tax collector for the welfare state", people have been whining about the GOP trying to turn away from being what I've called 'green eyeshade' Republicans. These are the folks who inspired the claims the GOP was 'controlled opposition' by spending most of their political capital trying to get the Rube Goldberg governing schemes created by Democrats to run right. While there might have been some justification for the Reagan effort to stabilize Social Security back in the day, after getting kicked in the teeth when W suggested further changes and then watching the purely partisan imposition of Obamacare, I'm quite happy the party has by and large stopped trying to fix problems caused by Democrats in favor of implementing our own priorities.
“Cuomo should have bowed out after he lost the primary and rallied his supporters behind Sliwa - the better candidate.”
Or the Republicans could have nominated a more credible candidate. As far as I know, Sliwa was unopposed.
I've seen a number of both Democrats and Republicans blaming Sliwa for Mamdani's victory. That's cheap bullshit.
If you want to find blame for breathing adults in the year 2025 to continue to slurp up someone selling them communism with promises of free stuff and taking over industries, you'd have to lay all of this at the feet of our education system.
Given everything that communism has done over the last 100 years, right up to today, it takes active ignorance to not understand what you are dealing with. And we have an entire generation and a half (or maybe two full generations) who have no idea at all what carnage has been committed in the name of the people, under communism.
We're not talking just bad policy mistakes. We're talking millions murdered, entire cultures and histories wiped out, entire economies shut down. Not for a period, but for decades.
Good luck New York. But in the meantime, we HAVE to get out of this public school system that we have and open up the education marketplace.
Well catsamandis could have run. or ackman men with resources
Awful fails to defeat dreadful in NYC. Losers whinge.
The granny-killer is responsible for Sliwa's loss.
Those of you rooting for failure are seditious traitors.
Hoping the voters of NYC get what they voted for isn't rooting for failure. It's predicting the future.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/new-york-city-mayor-results
Currently has the Muslim terrorist lover and Jew hater at 50.4% of the vote, which means it's not Sliwa's fault that Cuomo lost, it's Cuomo's fault
Howard said...
Those of you rooting for failure are seditious traitors.
I owe no loyalty to NYC. I am rooting for fair, death, and destruction. in particular, I hope that everyone who voted for or supported him has their life destroyed by his policies.
I owe the communists, socialists, terrorist lovers, and Jew haters of NYC nothing, and that's what I wish on them.
They are either idiots or scum, and they deserve hell on earth
William said...
On the other hand, crime (with the exception of shoplifting) is way down
No, it isn't. Reports are down, because the police can't be bothered, and people know they won't get anything for reporting (unless they're doing it to collect on insurance), but crime is up.
Don't worry, it's going to be up a lot more once the socialist is in charge.
Temujin said...
I've seen a number of both Democrats and Republicans blaming Sliwa for Mamdani's victory. That's cheap bullshit.
One could equally well say that had Cuomo dropped out and endorsed Sliwa …
Those of you rooting for failure are seditious traitors.
@Howard, the laws of economics will not be suspended for you or Mamdani or anyone else. One doesn’t root for that which is inevitable.
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