{"id":127972,"date":"2025-08-08T02:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:59:22","slug":"nyc-mayors-race-mamdani-accuses-cuomo-of-conspiring-with-trump-in-wake-of-reported-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127972\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Mamdani accuses Cuomo of \u2018conspiring\u2019 with Trump in wake of reported call"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani charged that his rival, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is \u2018conspiring\u2019 with President Trump in the wake of a reported recent phone call between Trump and Cuomo about the race. Thursday, Aug. 07, 2025.<\/p>\n

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Democrat mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani<\/a> on Thursday seized on a report that his independent rival Andrew Cuomo recently spoke to President Trump<\/a> about the race over the phone, charging the pair have been \u201cconspiring about the fate of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani made the accusations standing side-by-side with union members supporting his campaign during an Aug. 7 press conference at 26 Federal Plaza. The building has played host to daily detentions<\/a> of undocumented immigrants by Trump\u2019s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.<\/p>\n

The event came on the heels of a Wednesday evening New York Times report<\/a> that, citing unnamed sources, revealed a previously unknown recent phone call between Trump and Cuomo, the Democratic former governor, in which they spoke about the mayor\u2019s race. Both Trump and Cuomo have disputed that the call took place.<\/p>\n

\"\"Zohran Mamdani responds to a report that rival mayoral candidate and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo had a call with President Trump about the mayor\u2019s race. Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

Mamdani \u2014 a Queens Assembly member \u2014 cast Cuomo\u2019s alleged confab with Trump as part of an attempt to undermine his own nearly 13-point Democratic primary victory<\/a> over the former governor.\u00a0He further contended that Cuomo has \u201cvery little regard\u201d for the Democratic Party or the democratic process.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Cuomo] would rather look past having been beaten by close to 13 points by a campaign that amassed more votes than any Democratic primary winner in New York City history, to the extent that he would actually have a conversation with the very president who is stealing food from the hungry, who is throwing New Yorkers and Americans from coast to coast off of their health care,\u201d Mamdani said. He was referencing the steep cuts to food assistance and health care<\/a> included in Trump\u2019s recently passed \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani was joined by leaders and members of the New York State Nurses Association, 32BJ SEIU, and 1199 SEIU. The latter two backed Cuomo in the primary, but have since pivoted to support Mamdani in the general election instead.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker said the reported call shows that Cuomo \u201cwill sell working people out\u201d for his own interests, Trump\u2019s, and those of billionaires \u2014 who boosted his primary campaign with boatloads of cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of those interests are lining up as one and the same,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cIt is time for us to say enough. It is time for us to make clear that what this city deserves is a mayor who, when he sees Donald Trump attacking the people of this city, will stand up and fight back against that vision, will not get on the phone with the architect of that vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo rebuffs Trump call allegations: \u2018That\u2019s false\u2019
\n\"manDuring his own Thursday afternoon news conference, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied ever speaking to President Trump about the 2025 mayor\u2019s race, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s false.\u201dPhoto by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n

During his own Thursday afternoon news conference, Cuomo denied ever speaking to Trump about the race, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s false.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former governor claimed that the last time he attempted to, and may have, spoken with Trump was when he called him after an assassin tried to kill him last year.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time that I spoke to President Trump,\u201d Cuomo told reporters. \u201cI\u2019ve never spoken to him about the mayor\u2019s race.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Cuomo\u2019s denial on Thursday was more fierce than that provided by his spokesperson, Rich Azzopardi, on Wednesday, claiming they had not \u201cspoken in a while\u201d without clarifying when.<\/p>\n

Trump himself denied that the call took place to reporters in Washington, DC on Wednesday night.\n<\/p>\n

Cuomo also sought to clarify how he would approach Trump as mayor, following a Thursday afternoon report from The Times that he told city business leaders he does not \u201cpersonally\u201d want to fight Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said he would defend the city \u201c100% with everything I have learned and know\u201d from Trump\u2019s attacks, referencing his many battles with Trump as governor. But he said he would also \u201ctry to work with Trump where I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDefend anything that offends New York values,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cBut if you can find a way to work together and help New York City, then you work together.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The former governor also argued he is the \u201clast person\u201d Trump would want as mayor in the five-way general election.\u00a0
\n\"manFormer Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempts to play a video of Queens Assembly Member and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani during a press conference on Aug. 7, 2025.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n

Cuomo said Trump wants to keep incumbent Mayor Adams in power because Adams is a \u201cwholly-owned subsidiary\u201d of Trump, presumably referring to the alleged quid pro quo between the pair<\/a>. Meanwhile, he said Trump may prefer Mamdani \u2014 a democratic socialist \u2014 as a political punching bag for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he put Adams in control, why wouldn\u2019t he want to keep Adams in control,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cOr I could see him saying I want the Assemblyman to win because I could make a lot of points with him politically as evidence that the Democratic Party has lost its mind\u2026I think I have the least to offer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or, Cuomo said, Trump may want Curtis Sliwa \u2014 the Republican nominee \u2014 to win, so he could work with a mayor from his own party.\n<\/p>\n

Mamdani said during his own event on Thursday by arguing that his administration will be \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s worst nightmare.\u201d He said Trump\u2019s threats to denaturalize his citizenship status and deport him are clear examples that the president is fearful of him becoming mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the actions of a president who is afraid of the fact that I will actually deliver in a manner where he has simply betrayed,\u201d Mamdani said. \u201cThat is what we have to look at to understand that our campaign represents our city\u2019s best chance at not only fighting back against authoritarianism, but understanding that democracy is also under attack from within.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani charged that his rival, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is \u2018conspiring\u2019 with President Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,78173,6529,78174,69,6632,12287,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,10205,24672,78175,78176,78177,78178,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,9897,78179,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-127972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-campaign-accusations","11":"tag-democratic-primary","12":"tag-democratic-socialism","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-ice-detentions","15":"tag-immigration-policy","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-mayoral-race","23":"tag-pm-newsletter","24":"tag-political-controversy","25":"tag-progressive-politics","26":"tag-trump-cuomo-call","27":"tag-union-endorsements","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa","34":"tag-voter-turnout","35":"tag-working-class-support","36":"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\/127972","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=127972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}