Donald Trump’s apparent intervention in New York’s mayoral race is great news for the anti–Zohran Mamdani forces only if the president has an actionable plan for dragging Curtis Sliwa, the Republican, off the GOP ballot line. If he doesn’t — and knowing Trump, he probably hasn’t thought much of this through — Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, will have far more fodder for his general-election campaign against Andrew Cuomo and the rest of the field.

The New York Times reported yesterday that Trump had discussed the mayoral race in a phone call with Cuomo, a politician he has known for many decades. The two men have long been at odds but share a Queens lineage — a decade apart in age, they grew up only a few miles from each other — and the awareness of what it’s like to rise to prominence in the shadow of a powerful father. Trump, according to the Times, had asked a........

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