{"id":124787,"date":"2025-08-06T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124787\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:02:17","slug":"nyc-mayors-race-cuomo-campaign-denies-report-that-ex-governor-spoke-with-trump-about-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124787\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Cuomo campaign denies report that ex-governor spoke with Trump about contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican President Donald Trump<\/a> spoke on the phone with independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo recently about the New York City mayor\u2019s race, a Wednesday New York Times<\/a> report revealed. The former governor\u2019s campaign has disputed the reporting.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has thus far stayed out of the crowded contest to replace Mayor Eric Adams, spoke with the former governor as he is weighing whether to get involved with the crowded mayoral general election, according to the Times, which cited three anonymous sources. He also reportedly had conversations with a Republican Congress member, New York businessmen, and pollsters about who has the best shot at overcoming socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the pair publicly locked horns during Trump\u2019s first term, when Cuomo was still governor, the president said last month<\/a> that Cuomo \u201cshould stay\u201d in the race and has a \u201cgood shot of winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"manFormer Gov. Andrew Cuomo.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

But Rich Azzopardi, Cuomo\u2019s campaign spokesperson, disputed the report in a Wednesday statement to amNewYork. He claimed that Cuomo and Trump \u201chave not spoken in some time\u201d and, to his knowledge, \u201chave not discussed the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Azzopardi further speculated that Trump might well prefer Mamdani to give Republicans a bogeyman to scare voters; or the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, \u201cwho is a wholly owned subsidiary\u201d of Trump. He was referencing the alleged quid-pro-quo<\/a> between Adams and Trump to have the mayor\u2019s now-dismissed federal bribery<\/a> case tossed in exchange for towing the line on the president\u2019s immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegarding his reported interest, it seems clear that President Trump would either prefer Mr. Mamdani, whom he refers to as a \u2018commie,\u2019 because he believes Mamdani would serve as a political boon to Republicans nationwide in the midterms, symbolizing what he sees as the Democratic Party\u2019s extremism. Alternatively, he may favor Eric Adams, who is a wholly owned subsidiary of the President,\u201d Azzopardi said. \u201cAnd there is already a Republican in the race, who is the nominee of President Trump\u2019s party.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Republican Azzopardi referred to is Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.\n<\/p>\n

Mamdani, in a statement, blasted Cuomo as having spent his career \u201cgoverning for the powerful and prioritizing his own self-interests over those of the people he was sworn to serve.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just a shady backroom deal by a cynical politician, it is disqualifying. It is a betrayal,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cDonald Trump is sending masked agents to rip our neighbors off the street, gutting the social services so many New Yorkers rely on, and threatening to deport me for having the audacity to stand up to him and his billionaire friends. The job of New York City mayor is not to be a jester for a wannabe king, it is to protect the people of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times, citing eight anonymous sources, reported that Trump was recently briefed on polling showing Cuomo, who lost the June Democratic primary to Mamdani<\/a> by a wide margin, has the best chance of defeating the frontrunner. Trump was reportedly shown the survey data by pollster Mark Penn and former City Council President Andrew Stein, both of whom boosted Cuomo in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cuomo, who was widely seen as the frontrunner for much of the primary, has consistently been polling second to Mamdani<\/a> \u2014 though he often trails the Democratic nominee by roughly 10 points. Most often, Sliwa, Adams \u2014 who is also running as an independent after sitting out the Democratic primary, and independent lawyer Jim Walden come behind Cuomo in that order.<\/p>\n

Trump has also had a rosy relationship with Adams over the past year, even calling him a \u201cvery good person\u201d last month. But Adams has been lagging in the polls and their bond may be fraying<\/a>, given that Trump\u2019s Justice Department sued the city and Hizzoner to try and overturn the city\u2019s sancturay laws last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republican President Donald Trump spoke on the phone with independent mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo recently about the New…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[19042,5229,5297,76826,5340,6529,69,5289,76827,76828,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,10205,6637,76829,76830,76831,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-124787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-2025-election","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-andrew-cuomo","11":"tag-backroom-politics","12":"tag-curtis-sliwa","13":"tag-democratic-primary","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-eric-adams","16":"tag-independent-candidates","17":"tag-mayoral-campaign-drama","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-nyc-mayoral-race","25":"tag-nyc-politics","26":"tag-nyc-polling","27":"tag-republican-strategy","28":"tag-trump-cuomo-relationship","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa","35":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}