NYC Mayor Eric Adams has announced that he has officially dropped out of the current mayoral race, leaving only former governor Andrew Cuomo (who served as NY state’s 56th governor from 2011 until he resigned in 2021 amid many accusations of sexual harassment) and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa to oppose Zohran Mamdani (whom I’ve written about several times, e.g. here and here).

Many pundits have expressed that, especially now with Adams out of the race, Cuomo is the only candidate to have a shot against Mamdani, based primarily on name recognition. That is of course excepting those many New Yorkers who are in thrall to Mamdani, the Ugandan-born member of Democrat Socialists of America who believes that the police are responsible for rising crime, that food stores are exploitative and should be owned and run by the city, and that the so-called “Palestinians” are a noble people who are oppressed by Israel, a country that he believes has no right to exist. Mamdani also refuses to condemn Hamas or the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023.

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Those who advocate voting for Cuomo acknowledge that New Yorkers who oppose Mamdani will have to hold their noses as they pull the levers for Cuomo. But although Cuomo’s own foul odor........

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