also, my impression from the outside is that cuomo didn’t actually campaign. he just relied on name recognition and paid media. i think voters sensed the entitlement!
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This is correct
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 2 0 • view
I think the youngins finally came out! I worked real estate and apartments. NYC is FILLED with young, human rights forward individuals trying to make their dreams come true. I love it and NYC never, ever ceases to amaze me!
jun 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 11 1 • view
NYC is ever evolving and reinventing itself. Even though I can’t stay more than two days when I visit friends, it’s always an amazing time. Going to Harlem now as opposed to the 80’s is like night and day. My dad grew up there and it was another scene entirely. A fascinating city.
jun 25, 2025, 4:32 am • 2 0 • view
Sure is!
jun 25, 2025, 4:46 am • 1 0 • view
Idk. It's a pretty slim margin last I looked. It's concerning.
jun 25, 2025, 3:00 am • 0 0 • view
And perhaps the name recognition of a well-known corrupt sexual predator was not helpful after all.
jun 25, 2025, 10:09 am • 6 0 • view
Maybe folks didn’t forget that 4 years ago he resigned in disgrace over sexual harassment
jun 26, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
Haven’t seen one Cuomo thing outside of Tv and mailings. Zohran door knockers almost every day
jun 25, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
Pierre Poilievre is apparently doing the same thing! Hopefully, the same will happen to his sorry ass!
jun 25, 2025, 7:19 pm • 11 3 • view
I think the credible multiple charges against him did make a difference. Voters do have memory of COVID deaths etc. IMO
jun 25, 2025, 2:03 am • 6 0 • view
He is so arrogant he thought his name recognition would win him this race. Zohran showed young people all over the US, you can run and win even against big money.
jun 25, 2025, 9:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Not even that complex. They recognized the name and the association they had was one of scandal.
jun 25, 2025, 1:54 am • 2 0 • view
so he kept the donations to himself ?
jun 25, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like what happened in the last Virginia gubernatorial race. Terry McAuliffe barely campaigned and thought he was just going to swan in for a second term. People sensed the entitlement and acted accordingly.
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
He seemed to spend a whole lot of money, tho. Is shmoozing for endorsements from Clyburn, Clinton, sucking up the Bloomberg $$$ considered campaigning or did he actually need to lower his holy self and go out and speak to real constituents?
jun 25, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
I mean it's not like we have a recent record of voters sensing an entitlement to elected office and being turned off based on that
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 5 0 • view
And Zohran worked HARD
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 30 1 • view
And so did everyone (myself included) who volunteered!
jun 25, 2025, 2:06 am • 1 0 • view
and, he's fine
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 9 1 • view
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social HOT MAYOR ALERT!
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 7 1 • view
I think that much of that name recognition was also negative.
jun 25, 2025, 10:22 am • 0 0 • view
This is very true. He “campaigned” mainly via mailers, more to say on that mode later. But his (or his surrogate org’s) mailers were uniquely, in my more than 50 years involved with NYC politics, so pointedly aimed at portraying a candidate ostensibly from the same party as being “scary”.
jun 25, 2025, 6:23 am • 0 0 • view
Bill Clinton isn’t much of an influencer these days, either.
jun 25, 2025, 3:26 am • 4 1 • view
Good point.
jun 25, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
At the very least it just ceded the oxygen to Mamdani
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 1 0 • view
100%. Cuomo ran a lackluster campaign. Mamdani was not my first choice because of policy differences but it was hard not to like him on a personal level and honestly it was hard not to absolutely despise Cuomo.
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 30 1 • view
What policies did you disagree with?
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 0 0 • view
The city running grocery stores would be a top one. The city already does a less than ideal job at providing various desperately needed services and groceries are a tough business. We need to improve the services already within the scope of what the city does instead of adding to it.
jun 25, 2025, 2:27 am • 8 1 • view
While you're not wrong, you might check into municipal groceries as done in other cities. Food Deserts are a very real thing, and I can't imagine that NYC is the only city to have problems with them.
jun 25, 2025, 4:46 am • 4 0 • view
If cities want to address food deserts, and NYC does already have programs specifically targeted to this, the best way is to help small independents bring fresh food. Sadly I have seen so much good fresh food go to waste in food deserts because people still spend their money on ultra processed food.
jun 25, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
The price of letting people with too much money control the narrative (like all that advertising), amongst others, I'm sure.
jun 25, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
This was studied in Chicago and abandoned. One reference that Mamdani recently made was a city owned grocery store in KS. (1) It’s hard to compare small town KS to NYC (2) the city took over an existing store temporarily only to turn it over to a private company. www.koamnewsnow.com/city-owned-e...
jun 25, 2025, 5:04 am • 1 0 • view
That happens all too often
jun 25, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Wonder how often it gets dropped because the supermarket companies weigh in against it
jun 25, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
In places like small town America it is not major chains that operate these stores. They are mostly mom and pops. Small towns don’t have the resources to keep them going either. A lot of people don’t realize how thin margin groceries are. It’s not a business that can easily be managed.
jun 25, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
How interesting. You do realize, of course, that you have been carefully arguing why things can't be different? As if the problems are somehow insurmountable, or that a major city actually working on a solution is somehow a waste of time, or will be abandoned? On whose side are you on?
jun 25, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I just will not fight for something that has been shown to fail over and over and for which there is not a great argument for a city to do when it has failed at providing basic services to date and now somehow is going to be effective at opening grocery stores?
jun 26, 2025, 12:44 am • 0 0 • view
You are talking to someone who will fight like hell for Medicare for All because having universal health coverage makes common sense and is good for both small business and everyday Americans. I can list a dozen policy issues I will fight for and that the majority of Americans would support.
jun 26, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
I do imagine that you are not actually doing this on purpose, but seriously, you're sounding like a centrist with lots of reasons why we _can't_ have change.
jun 25, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
The amount of hours I’ve spent in the field talking to people and knocking on doors is crazy and I’ll keep doing it and pushing for change. We can do this but we need to be strategic about it.
jun 26, 2025, 12:10 am • 1 0 • view
I think voters didnt want a serial sexual abuser
jun 25, 2025, 7:10 pm • 5 0 • view
That seems a weird way to Go. Relying on just his name. And for the rest of the media to just keep talking about him…. Well, I guess that’s how Trump really won. Go with the winning strategy
jun 25, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
Accurate.
jun 25, 2025, 1:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe we can start talking about Cuomo in terms of a coronation candidate instead of Hillary Clinton?
jun 25, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
ALL these "legacy" families in government NEED TO GO.
jun 25, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
After 2024, we'd be forgiven for not realizing that voters were in fact capable of sensing anything at all so this is, to say the least, a pleasant surprise.
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 3 0 • view
💯
jun 25, 2025, 10:14 am • 0 0 • view
#1 cause of neo-liberal loses - their belief that they are entitled to win.
jun 25, 2025, 10:28 pm • 0 0 • view
and the corruption
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Your impression is correct - he phoned it in and relied on republican money and we said no thanks!
jun 25, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Hubris
jun 25, 2025, 2:34 am • 0 0 • view
He is a failed aristocrat, why did he even want to be mayor other than his belief in his innate right to rule over people?
jun 25, 2025, 2:10 am • 4 1 • view
jun 25, 2025, 5:15 am • 0 0 • view
I agree. Voters are definitely not looking to return legacy nepo-babies to office. Not this year!
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
Oh we recognized his name all right. Just not in a good way!
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 3 0 • view
He sent so many texts begging for votes. Nobody that was paying attention voted for him.
jun 25, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
Agreed. I’d call it his disconnect
jun 25, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
And racism, don’t forget the abhorrent racism.
jun 25, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
This tracks since Cuomo's current vote % is around the same level as when he announced last Feb. No bump, no enthusiasm, no ground game, lots of endorsements from people who don't vote in NYC - including Cuomo himself 😊
jun 25, 2025, 2:01 am • 37 4 • view
(Sorry, who don't "live" in NYC)
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 6 0 • view
People know a lying rat bastard! The dude was a hollow suit out for revenge because he was kicked out. And for the next week, I say we clown the Corpse Caucus. They ain't SHIT
jun 25, 2025, 2:04 am • 2 0 • view
Definitely- and when I saw him speak publicly he was unfocused in my opinion.
jun 25, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, they both suck, IMO.
jun 25, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
Admire you incredibly
jun 25, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
I just don't understand people voting for Cuomo. Why? They know he is crap. I am also interested in hearing how the election went. I heard that they were not allowing some people to vote that should have been allowed to.
jun 25, 2025, 2:25 am • 0 0 • view
Totally.
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Welll, wait a sec. Be great if he wins, but remember what happened to Liz Holtzman
jun 25, 2025, 2:07 am • 0 0 • view
And he relied on ChatGPT to write all his position papers. What an asshole.
jun 25, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude Mamdani *won* this thing with a popular policy agenda and an optimistic campaign that championed a vision for the city. Why are you trying to tear down what his movement built? Cuomo didn’t lose this, Mamdani won it!
jun 25, 2025, 1:54 am • 13 1 • view
Very true.
jun 25, 2025, 4:30 am • 1 0 • view
I never saw any Cuomo posters or pins. Not 1. Entirely top down and outside money
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 4 1 • view
The trajectory of socialist and Islamic takeovers is disastrous
jun 25, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
He has has zero ground game in the city. Meanwhile Mamdani and Lander have been everywhere.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 21 1 • view
Yes, perhaps they didn’t want an entitled misogynist back in office.
jun 25, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s definitely my feeling as someone living in the city. I saw his negative ads, and him saying he had experience. But I’m not sure of a single proposal he had?
jun 25, 2025, 3:04 am • 1 1 • view
When will the political establishment finally get a clue that their time is over and they will never dictate whose turn it is at the levers of power. We don't want kings and we don't want political dynasties!!
jun 25, 2025, 11:25 am • 7 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/flam...
jun 25, 2025, 2:08 am • 1 0 • view
total low data survey of the world but gut feeling is retail politics is forming as response to ........all the things
jun 25, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed!
jun 25, 2025, 9:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw that Cuomo MIGHT run as an independent in the general election for mayor
jun 25, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
or maybe they were still repulsed by him
jun 25, 2025, 9:55 am • 0 0 • view
dude is pushing 70 why doesn't he just retire?
jun 25, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh, it was worse: The more appearances he made, the worse his results got, so they did a lot of hiding for the first few months!
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 135 3 • view
Did no one learn from the Biden campaign? People want authentic candidates who are out there talking to people.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 36 1 • view
Exactly as Biden did
jun 25, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 1 • view
oh, they learned, but hard to pay an army of consultants with that kind of insight
jun 25, 2025, 2:25 am • 19 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
People want that, but they only get it if their votes aren’t anticonstitutionally nullified.
jun 25, 2025, 3:02 am • 0 0 • view
well, they weren't nullified here...and Zohran won because of it
jun 25, 2025, 5:31 am • 1 1 • view
This is how elections should be run.
jun 25, 2025, 5:45 am • 1 0 • view
I wish we had ranked choice in all our primaries and general election. While Mamdani won the plurality today, it is because of the alliances he built that made so many voters were comfortable voting for one of the other candidates and ranking him likely 2nd. It is a great voting system.
jun 25, 2025, 11:38 am • 3 0 • view
yeah, agrred. i would love to see rcv spread
jun 25, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
This, and I remember a report saying that he didn’t even have a ground team until like, this past weekend. He expected to coast so he laid low.
jun 25, 2025, 2:05 am • 8 0 • view
Bubba Clinton couldn’t even get him across the finish line.
jun 25, 2025, 1:55 am • 8 0 • view
bubba hasn't crossed the finish line since he finished on monica's blue dress
jun 25, 2025, 5:29 am • 0 0 • view
A political corpse adding a deadweight…can’t imagine why that didn’t work 🙃
jun 25, 2025, 1:58 am • 24 0 • view
For the next week, we clown the corpse caucus!
jun 25, 2025, 2:00 am • 3 0 • view
Oh my god could this mean the era of Clinton endorsements is over? I date not dream
jun 25, 2025, 5:10 am • 2 0 • view
please let it be so. let em both go back to arkansas and disappear forever
jun 25, 2025, 5:30 am • 0 0 • view
All that did was remind people that Clinton is also a sex pest.
jun 25, 2025, 2:09 am • 5 0 • view
💯. Plus resigning in disgrace.
jun 25, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
WE NEED A HOT MAYOR!
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
is there results.
jun 25, 2025, 1:49 am • 1 0 • view
You can haz results.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view
NYC PUBLIC SCHOOLS BABY!
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 5 0 • view
Yeah, I agree for sure they sensed Cuomo’s entitlement. They also sensed the allegations of sexual harassment, his impeachment investigation, his investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the questionable report he used to combat criticism.
jun 25, 2025, 4:58 pm • 5 0 • view
And they sensed the grabby hands.
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
He did spend 42 gazillion dollars on racist ads though
jun 25, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
The TACO campaign
jun 25, 2025, 2:40 am • 0 0 • view
relying on the laura loomer-charlie kirk-tik tok lady endorsements was a bold strategy jamelle tbh
jun 25, 2025, 1:54 am • 379 4 • view
Needed Liz Cheney to bring him home
jun 25, 2025, 2:04 am • 3 0 • view
Seriously “Bold Strategy Cotton” territory.
jun 25, 2025, 1:57 am • 4 0 • view
He's a uniter, he united the racists, the fascists, the landlords, the oligarchs, the healthcare CEOs, and the stochastic terrorists
jun 25, 2025, 1:57 am • 110 4 • view
Getting endorsements from a squad like that would have a decent person electing to live the remainder of their life as a hermit.
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 5 0 • view
His only strategy was to grift off the campaign and enrich himself further to retire more comfortable
jun 25, 2025, 7:28 am • 0 0 • view
Endorsed by the grass on Epstein Island did not play well to Bronx grandmas
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 9 0 • view
It was the most cynical campaign I’ve ever seen darth and I’ve seen my share tbh At the end Cuomo was like “uh vote fah me cause of Israel and the police, fuhgeddabout it”
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 7 0 • view
The question in my mind is, will leftists now finally shut up about the shadowy cabal they think rules the Dem party & was supposed to deliver the primary for Cuomo?
jun 25, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 1 • view
You know they won’t. Hopefully, however, they will vote more now and complain less.
jun 25, 2025, 4:34 am • 2 0 • view
The NY Democratic Party machine isn’t going anywhere. It started in the 19th century and it’s far from dead. Gonna take a LOT more Zohran-like campaigns to even put a dent in it.
jun 25, 2025, 7:49 am • 1 0 • view
This was about the national party
jun 25, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm glad they felt his "entitlement." Too many times a family name or association bumps a better candidate out of the running. New York is wise. They are able to genuinely use critical thinking and know how to apply it towards their interests. Honestly, Cuomo was damaged goods out of the gate.
jun 25, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
It apparently worked. He won on a landslide in the areas surrounding Central Park.
jun 25, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Those early photos of his election night hq are so low energy.
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
I live in NYC and this is correct. I didn’t hear from his campaign at all until yesterday when we finally received just one flier in the mail.
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 5 0 • view
he didn't even have rallies
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
100% this! The other candidates were showing up to events, protests, marches, etc. Cuomo was absent on the ground. He didn’t even come out when Lander was arrested by ICE. He ran a lazy campaign and people reacted accordingly.
jun 25, 2025, 2:57 pm • 13 0 • view
This thread from a photographer of who he voted for affirms this. Cuomo was pretty much absent; just reinforces the running theory that he wants to try and run for President
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Yes and also
jun 25, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
Evidently Cuomo relied upon the Lauren Boebert method of getting elected to office. Just don’t do anything and rely upon name recognition. She didn’t do a damn thing to get elected back into her congressional seat other than jumping districts from a purple district to a red district.
jun 25, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
He received $25 million from donors. Wonder where that money went?
jun 26, 2025, 2:05 am • 2 0 • view
The man had a lackey hold a parking space for him to be driven the three blocks to the polling place. Three blocks. Unless his legs are broken he’s clearly saying he’s too good to do what every other New Yorker (not named Trump) does on the regular.
jun 25, 2025, 1:58 am • 10 0 • view
I think we look back at Mamdani walking the whole of Manhattan as one the most political savvy moves of the century. (especially contrasted with photos of Cuomo getting in and out of his car)
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 10 2 • view
Overall, tactics used by Cuomo that might have worked nationally or state wide did not work here. Your average New Yorker can sniff out bs and grift in a way most can’t.
jun 25, 2025, 5:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I am not sure every endorsement he received was a net positive.
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 205 0 • view
Yeah, when fossils like Clyburn and predators like Bill are pushing you…..endorsements from right wing billionaires like Bloomberg are almost preferable!
jun 25, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Andrew Cuomo parked in the middle of the street to shake the hands of rich donors behind closed doors and Mamdani walked every inch of this magnificent city taking selfies with real people. NYC noticed
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 271 11 • view
If Mamdani wins it’ll be for the same reason AOC won her seat in Congress. He did the work. Also, shouldn’t we all be tired of electing the same old deeply flawed retreads of yesteryear? I would think so.
jun 25, 2025, 3:15 am • 130 7 • view
i almost misread "retreads", heh >_> I think I'll use that term more often... It kinda suits the role...
jun 25, 2025, 6:05 am • 0 0 • view
Amen
jun 25, 2025, 3:23 am • 9 1 • view
& this is the problem with the Democratic Party
jun 29, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it is.
jun 30, 2025, 12:23 pm • 1 0 • view
BREAKING: GRIM REAPER ENDORSES CUOMO
jun 25, 2025, 2:03 am • 4 0 • view
Today in dramatic understatements…
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 2 0 • view
And the sex pestiness.
jun 25, 2025, 12:28 pm • 7 0 • view
What Cuomo is entitled to is: a long long retirement...forever.
jun 25, 2025, 10:09 pm • 1 0 • view
And they’re sick and tired of privileged old white men controlling everything? Rude awakening coming for some!
jun 26, 2025, 12:27 am • 1 0 • view
Cuomo’s campaign was literally just name recognition and the most disgustingly islamaphobic local tv ads you’ve ever seen.
jun 25, 2025, 1:54 am • 9 1 • view
NYT, probably: "Now Mamdani must move to the center"
jun 25, 2025, 9:10 am • 2 0 • view
And of course: "A New Political Star Emerges Out of a Fractured Democratic Party The emergence of Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is likely to divide national Democrats, who are already torn about what the party should stand for." "Fractured," as in Cuomo got whupped.
jun 25, 2025, 9:11 am • 4 0 • view
Yes we did. Mamdani wasn't my first choice Adrienne Adams was, then Lander, then Momdani.... but I could not vote for Cuomo who is so arrogant and didn't even seem like he likes NYC
jun 25, 2025, 1:13 pm • 12 0 • view
I agree!!
jun 26, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
He kind of did at the very last minute. But poorly. I actually did have Cuomo canvassers come to my door, but after I voted which means they had bad lists. I also got a dozen calls and texts, but again after I voted, their lists and targeting were bad.
jun 25, 2025, 3:02 am • 4 0 • view
Will he try to go on Rogan in the run up to the general?
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
I can't repost this, because that would be tempting fate...but yes.
jun 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 0 0 • view
That shit about not picking between the Yankees and the Mets was a terrible idea. You can't be that openly a coward and expect voters to gravitate towards you.
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 7 0 • view
Hell, Red Sox fan has a better track record than that mealy mouthed bullshit
jun 25, 2025, 2:14 am • 6 0 • view
I was joking last night that a fuck baseball I hate baseball response would probably still be better, and I really think that's still true
jun 25, 2025, 2:17 am • 10 1 • view
I literally do not give a shit about sports and it turned me off, lol if you can't be brave about your sports opinion, how can you be brave at a time when we need it more than ever?
jun 25, 2025, 2:18 am • 12 1 • view
Sports is the one area where we're allowed to be completely unhinged and people are just like yeah that's fine. If he'd been like I want to raze the homes of Mets fans and orphan their kids it would have played better. Anything but cowardice.
jun 25, 2025, 2:19 am • 6 0 • view
Yeah he didn't have a platform other than, "That guy doesn't know shit and he's a socialist and he's not from here"
jun 25, 2025, 3:01 am • 3 1 • view
Correct!
jun 25, 2025, 2:16 am • 0 0 • view
Yes.
jun 25, 2025, 1:46 pm • 0 0 • view
YES PLEASE let that be the case (meaning, let 'name recognition' and 'paid media' be a thing of the distant past, stat)
jun 25, 2025, 1:58 am • 0 0 • view
I never saw Cuomo and did not hear of a single person I know seeing him this spring. He hid, fearmongered , and hoped to be remembered as his father’s son.
jun 25, 2025, 2:34 am • 1 1 • view
MAGA billionaires throwing money away on candidates who lose. ❤️
jun 25, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
jun 25, 2025, 12:55 pm • 13 2 • view
Love it when billionaires lose.
jun 25, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
The fundamental paradox of American politics is the voters are never as dumb as you think they are but are always stupider than you can imagine
jun 25, 2025, 7:02 am • 22 1 • view
Hehehe
jun 25, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
He wanted to be Mayor so he could call himself Mayor. Mamdani and Lander wanted to be Mayor of New York City and people felt that.
jun 25, 2025, 1:58 am • 10 3 • view
I think he relied upon the super power that is the inertia of white male privilege. MAGA spawns from the realization that the world is growing tired of the existence of that historically devastating super power.
jun 25, 2025, 8:37 am • 1 0 • view
Finally.
jun 26, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
and his (un)earned media was generally negative--things like ostentatiously driving everywhere and parking in the middle of a manhattan street--that i think reminded people of his general contempt for the city when he was governor
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
Or, 'crosses fingers, says a little prayer' Americans are once again viewing disgraced sex predators in a bad light as a choice for powerful public office. Heeeerrrreeees hopin!
jun 26, 2025, 12:05 am • 0 0 • view
We did. Also, the racism, Islamophobia, fear-mongering, etc. A complete turnoff
jun 25, 2025, 2:01 am • 3 1 • view
or they could smell the stank coming off this corrupt POS. 💩
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
*is to run as an independent
jun 25, 2025, 12:27 pm • 0 0 • view
If his plan is run as an independent in Nov I wonder if that's for more money bundling
jun 25, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
From the inside, that’s exactly right.
jun 25, 2025, 11:08 am • 0 0 • view
I was getting ads for Cuomo — I live in the west coast! They weren't even targeting correctly.
jun 25, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
This is a phenomenon not unknown amongst other statewide NY Dems, much to the peril of the poor working peons downballot.
jun 25, 2025, 11:31 am • 4 0 • view
I agree. I never heard a word from him, but I heard plenty from Mamdani, and I live nowhere near NY.
jun 25, 2025, 5:30 am • 1 0 • view
I also hope that Brad Lander continues challenging the NY leadership establishment, especially a possible run for Senator!
jun 25, 2025, 5:36 am • 1 0 • view
Similar situation in Massachusetts back when Ted Kennedy died. Dems ran Martha Coakley, one of the most lackluster candidates, and who did not campaign vigorously. She lost to a REPUBLICAN in Massachusetts. Which gave us Scott Brown and lost the Dems the 60th senate seat vote.
jun 25, 2025, 3:45 am • 2 0 • view
Absolutely right!
jun 25, 2025, 11:59 am • 0 0 • view
FDR warned the rich elite that if they didn't throw the Poors a bone, communism might take over America just like Russia. FDR's rich fuckhead friends listened to him. Trump is not smart enough to try to pump the breaks. We won't get communism, but I'd welcome socialism.
jun 25, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
He seemed worn out to me and lacked energy. Entitlement is the right word.
jun 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 21 1 • view
Hey, it's pretty exhausting to get out there and touch all the women voters.
jun 25, 2025, 4:26 am • 14 0 • view
Absolutely spot on! He just figured that endorsements by a certain few would carry the day. Nope!
jun 25, 2025, 1:57 am • 1 0 • view
Yep. He had all that big money + union backing
jun 25, 2025, 2:11 am • 1 0 • view
I could sense his entitled attitude all the way here in CA. He’s such an ass!!
jun 25, 2025, 1:01 pm • 7 0 • view
Also hes a terrible human.
jun 25, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
Truth.Never got a text call or mailer fr his campaign.Even as AG then as Gov he lived in a small bubble feeding him only good info for his ego.Same people ran campaign. Andy really doesn’t want to be Mayor but was the only opening to get him back in the game. Obv from his AI shit and no campaigning.
jun 25, 2025, 2:13 am • 2 0 • view
I got about three texts from his campaign telling me I should vote early because today was going to be hot as hell. I thanked them for the heads-up and told them I still wasn’t ranking him.
jun 25, 2025, 2:22 am • 4 1 • view
The ole Terry McAuliffe
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
Not a New Yorker, but in the vein of “entitlement” I wonder whether some voters were turned off because a Cuomo “comeback” as Mayor would have instantly become merely a next step to run for President? Voters don’t like to feel like their office is a stepping stone.
jun 26, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
💯
jun 25, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
Cuomo thought NYC was controlled by a board of billionaires that could hire him as CEO.
jun 25, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Easy to sense the entitlement when you rack up multiple speeding charges in school zones
jun 25, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
💯
jun 25, 2025, 6:15 am • 0 0 • view
I think you are 100% correct👍
jun 25, 2025, 3:27 am • 1 0 • view
He’s out of touch
jun 25, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
Yes. His paid canvassers were bad at the job and probably turned more votes away than they gained. To say nothing of saturating Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune with the same fucking ad back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 7 0 • view
Yes
jun 25, 2025, 6:20 am • 0 0 • view
Very correct. He wasn’t a presence in the city, he had no real canvassing presence, it was just shitty mailers and TV/radio/web ads
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 55 1 • view
I have a theory he never had to learn to beat good politician because his whole career has been cashing in favors owed to his dad.
jun 25, 2025, 2:19 am • 4 0 • view
Hmmm... Meant to say "be a" but I guess "beat" works.
jun 25, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
This man allegedly tried to put together a field team on, like, Thursday. The utter antithesis of Zohran and Brad's campaigns.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 3 0 • view
Yes, pushing Islamophobia & screaming “antisemitism” They’re a bunch of greedy racists whose soul purpose is to line their pockets.
jun 29, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 1 • view
Yep. paid canvassers.
jun 25, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
My man had the Cantor 2014 experience.
jun 25, 2025, 1:52 am • 18 1 • view
Ooohhh forgot about that Young Gun
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 12 0 • view
Paul Ryan was the only one to do it right
jun 25, 2025, 2:11 am • 4 0 • view
he had enough young guns for all 3 of them
jun 25, 2025, 2:12 am • 4 0 • view
He was Speaker of the House, ushered in the giant tax cut bill, then bounced in 2018 so he didn’t get any of the stink on him. He’ll be running in 2028 or 2032
jun 25, 2025, 2:19 am • 6 0 • view
The Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver Paul Ryan? Mister Paul 'Ayn Rand' Ryan? That guy, who pretended to be a wonk but was really just another heartless eugenicist, that Paul Ryan?
jun 25, 2025, 4:44 am • 5 0 • view
Don’t mistake my observation as an endorsement of Paul fucking Ryan but yeah. I think he’s strategically stayed out of the public eye long enough for people to consider him an “establishment republican” and a relief from the craziness because people don’t pay attention but will recognize his name
jun 25, 2025, 4:55 am • 6 0 • view
May he get the rousing response that the Elder-Murdering Sex Pest gets when he tries that, speaking of somebody who thought that name recognition would get him past the finish line.
jun 25, 2025, 4:58 am • 5 0 • view
Unfortunately I don’t think Ryan is as toxic and in general for the not paying attention crowd reads as midwestern nice but yeah I’m with you
jun 25, 2025, 5:04 am • 3 0 • view
I don't think he could win a primary in the GOP.
jun 25, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Cantor? In the words of Obi Wan Kenobi, "now there's a name I've not heard in a long time"....
jun 25, 2025, 5:49 am • 1 0 • view
my impression is that people just didn’t want Chris back at CNN.
jun 25, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
Not a smart play during an anti-incumbent mood.
jun 25, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed
jun 25, 2025, 3:07 am • 0 0 • view
And sad, hot, dark-money and billionaire funded paid lit pushers. bsky.app/profile/jool...
jun 25, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
I told my boyfriend yesterday that the bulk of the people voting for Cuomo are probably the ones who are old enough to have sat through all of his terms as adults and he's the only figure they're familiar with.
jun 25, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
Cuomo was never going to get anybody who was not with him on day one.
jun 25, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
This is correct.
jun 25, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
Your mouth to god’s ear my brotha
jun 25, 2025, 1:59 am • 0 0 • view
I'm in Brooklyn. Never saw a single Cuomo canvasser.
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 13 0 • view
I mean it shows in the results. Brooklyn is showing UP for Mamdani.
jun 25, 2025, 2:00 am • 7 0 • view
I'm sure a majority of Lander votes are from BK as well.
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 3 0 • view
He was ready to govern on day 1 and had all the correct endorsements. Why would he need to campaign? Unfortunately the voters failed to give him the win he was fully entitled to.
jun 25, 2025, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
Dropped you "/s" homie :p Remember, Poe's Law is in full effect: There are morons out there who GENUINELY believe that the sexpest scumbag aristocratic parasite WAS entitled to power. What he's actually entitled to, is to disappear. Fade away. Dustbin of history. Either that or disgrace and infamy.
jun 25, 2025, 6:03 am • 3 0 • view
The fact that being a rampant sex pest and incredibly corrupt isn't a deadbreaker for either party is absolutely pathetic.
jun 25, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
word.
jun 25, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Idk..many folks do vote by name recognition....
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
A savvy calculation to not remind New Yorkers what a hopeless piece of garbage you are, and also Cuomo's only play.
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
Mamdani walked the length of Manhattan talking to voters. Cuomo had a driver drive him 5 blocks from where he was staying (he doesn’t live in NYC) to his polling place. Source: Bulwark live broadcast a few minutes ago.
jun 25, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 1 • view
He was absolutely the wrong candidate. No energy, deep establishment, mediocre record, not in a position to harness the energy seen by Indivisible protests. But I'm worried the DSA candidate is going to blow up in our face.
jun 25, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, he may turn out to be DeBlasio II. The free buses sound nice but you've got to have a way to pay for them. I would have preferred another progressive who is deeply familiar with the issues involved with running the largest city in the nation.
jun 25, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds like it. He was a lazy ass bastard and I'm glad he's having a very shitty night
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
It’s ridiculous that Democrats endorsed Cuomo. Such a terrible decision.
jun 25, 2025, 3:41 am • 3 0 • view
Americans need a formal, legal method that prevents people like him from running for political office. Ancient Greeks had one. Don't we deserve the same considerstion?
jun 25, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Which is not surprising at all.
jun 25, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
The entitlement was palpable
jun 25, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
And how many are just plain sick of sexual predators being in elected offices?
jun 25, 2025, 8:50 pm • 5 0 • view
It's amazing when women say "please don't treat us like shit anymore" and the traditional media machine churns out excuse after excuse in response
jun 25, 2025, 4:00 pm • 17 0 • view
Scary part is if thats completely factual, his name carried far more weight than anything. Had they actually made the effort then, and may as an independent now, it could create a huge mess.
jun 25, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
I don’t believe so. Cuomo’s concession speech was the final nail in his elected political coffin. His speech was effusively pro @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . Cuomo would be running against himself in the General
jun 25, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
Here is to hoping. I just have so little trust in the Democrat party not to pull the rug so to speak.
jun 25, 2025, 12:09 pm • 1 0 • view
They tried for this primary and will try in the general. Their best chance of defeat was in the primary. Z’s movement growth has momentum reminiscent of Obama 2007-2008. Z continues to gain support far and wide. Here’s to Hope. He us the Hope of generation Z (and me, GenX)
jun 25, 2025, 12:17 pm • 3 0 • view
He really seems to have been running on autopilot
jun 25, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe Cuomo should've had ICE arrest him for a couple of extra measly sympathy votes 😹
jun 25, 2025, 2:21 am • 0 0 • view
I have that impression too. No ground game whatsoever. In contrast the city was literally inundated w/ Mamdani volunteers for weeks.
jun 25, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Transcendental political malpractice + mush brained, lazy candidate = “I don’t like bagels”/“I like both (the Yankees and the Mets).”
jun 25, 2025, 2:01 am • 0 0 • view
"It's my turn, again" also didn't work out too well for Terry McAuliffe four years ago.
jun 25, 2025, 1:56 am • 20 0 • view
I'm only getting it secondhand from people in NYC sharing stuff, but holy crap it sounded like he (and probably mainly his supporters/PACs/whatever) spent an absolute fortune flooding everywhere with ads/flyers/mailers/commercials/etc.
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
The next time it could be said that "NYC voters made the smart choice" will be the first.
jun 25, 2025, 1:53 am • 0 0 • view
100% felt that way in Bklyn too. Phoned it in at every turn.
jun 25, 2025, 3:30 am • 2 1 • view
If he runs in the general election as an independent, it just cements the idea that Cuomo can't take no for an answer.
jun 25, 2025, 9:38 am • 1 1 • view
I think more people are gaining class consciousness
jun 25, 2025, 1:55 am • 4 1 • view
jun 25, 2025, 2:00 am • 3 1 • view
Me too, buddy
jun 25, 2025, 2:01 am • 2 1 • view
EXACTLY THIS!
jun 25, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
I like Mandamis youthful energy and I despise the Islamophobia behind some of the attacks. I’m also in favor of more socialism, but he doesn’t have management experience or seemingly much understanding of economics. But I wish him well.
jun 25, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
The fact that he never actually slept in the city was kind of a giveaway.
jun 25, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
He relied a lot on the local groups that previously supported him and was not really putting in the work. Meanwhile mamdani and lander were everywhere, they were on radio shows, influencer accounts and in neighborhoods and places of worship.
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 22 1 • view
He is so so good.
jun 25, 2025, 1:59 am • 5 1 • view
I saw a clip of him quoting Ed Koch. 👍🏼
jun 25, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
📌
jun 25, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
I think I just grew ovaries in order to ovulate. (I don’t live in NY so I didn’t pay attention to the campaigning.)
jun 25, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought he stepped down over harassment claims? If so why did he think he had a chance? Because Trump was re-elected? He thought we might re-elect him to prove some weird point? I am in no way mad at “establishment” Ds because I think it’s a ruse to divide the left but I don’t think
jun 25, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Any serious Democrats “establishment” or not were in big support of Cuomo this time around
jun 25, 2025, 5:27 am • 0 0 • view
Lots of lessons to be learned from 2016 of course but I think the most obvious one is "you can't just get an elected position because you think you've earned it and it's your turn" and yet!
jun 25, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
Here's a scene from when he accepted the title of Presumptive Mayor.
jun 25, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
He had a HUGE campaign fund but money can’t always buy happiness or an election!
jun 25, 2025, 9:25 am • 2 0 • view
ENTITLEMENT ... just the thought of it makes me nauseas as it's a disease that needs to be eradicated by any means ... all of us certainly have the power to do so ...
jun 25, 2025, 9:35 am • 2 0 • view
Yet he still has an absolute massive amount of votes, even if it’s ranked choice. Wouldn’t have him ranked at all…
jun 25, 2025, 2:02 am • 0 0 • view
Exactly! As an older NYer that ranked Zohran Mamdani #1, I felt Cuomo came in as if he deserved it. He blew off the sexual harrassment charges as if they were a joke, which is totally disrespectful to women! This isn't a redemption job. It's about helping all NYers not just himself!
jun 25, 2025, 2:36 pm • 22 0 • view
and smear campaigns and the contributions of billionaires
jun 25, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
And now I get to spend the next 4+ months worrying about Mamdani's safety
jun 25, 2025, 12:07 pm • 5 0 • view
I think voters sensed the convicted abuse. But I could be wrong.
jun 25, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
All his flyer people were from Saturday to today and were paid
jun 25, 2025, 1:51 am • 1 0 • view
also, he relied on the Trillionaire Class to purchase the Office for him.
jun 25, 2025, 10:12 am • 1 0 • view
Which, lol, agrees with his Entitlement and Theirs... The Trillionaire Class. "Big Beautiful Billionaire Bill"
jun 25, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
Yes
jun 25, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
That kind of thing usually works in the GOP world.
jun 25, 2025, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view