{"id":162904,"date":"2025-08-21T04:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T04:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T04:37:11","slug":"a-trump-supporting-jewish-memelord-steps-into-the-nyc-mayors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162904\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trump-supporting Jewish memelord steps into the NYC mayor’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor\u2019s race.\u00a0Sign up here to get it in your inbox<\/a>. There are 76 days to the election.<\/p>\n

  • At a fundraiser in the Hamptons on Sunday, Cuomo predicted that Trump could intervene in the race to stop Zohran Mamdani. He said the president could convince his base to support Cuomo over Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, according to audio obtained by\u00a0Politico<\/a>.<\/li>\n
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    Cuomo was hosted at the home of Jewish media executive Jimmy Finkelstein in Southampton. Also co-hosting was Finkelstein\u2019s brother, Andrew Stein, former New York City Council President and a longtime friend of Trump who has briefed the president on Cuomo\u2019s chances of beating Mamdani, according to\u00a0The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    \u201cTrump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani,\u201d Cuomo said at the fundraiser. \u201cAnd you\u2019ll be wasting your vote on Sliwa. So I feel good about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Sliwa and Mayor Eric Adams, the other main contender running as an independent, both snapped back at Cuomo and have said they won\u2019t drop out to help him.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Cuomo has publicly denied any coordination with Trump, instead\u00a0saying he is the only candidate who can \u201cdeal with\u201d him<\/a>. But privately, he has\u00a0told business leaders that he isn\u2019t \u201cpersonally\u201d looking for a fight<\/a> with the president.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Trump is unpopular in the overwhelmingly Democratic city of New York, and Mamdani has a commanding lead in recent polls, including an\u00a0edge with Jewish voters<\/a>. But in the 2024 presidential election, Trump\u00a0picked up votes from an estimated 46% of Jewish New Yorkers<\/a>, compared with 37% in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,94143,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-the-countdown","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064907818295438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162904","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=162904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}