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<\/p>\n Email Link<\/p>\n New York \n Add this to the list of Donald Trump\u2019s accomplishments: Helping elect a socialist mayor of New York City.\n <\/p>\n \n That\u2019s the assessment from many politicians and operatives in the president\u2019s hometown after a chaotic week of White House intervention, between Trump talking repeatedly<\/a> about the candidates and his aides discussing an ambassadorship<\/a> or other jobs with Mayor Eric Adams to get him to leave the race. Trump allies want to consolidate support for Andrew Cuomo against Zohran Mamdani, the state assemblyman and democratic socialist whom Trump has labeled a \u201ccommunist.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Adams is still in the race. Cuomo\u2019s opponents are tying the former governor <\/strong>closer to Trump in a city where Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans. And Mamdani and his aides are savoring what they see as another bit of good luck.\n <\/p>\n \n Support has picked up for the Democratic nominee, as have endorsements and media attention. Mamdani, joined by independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, had to have a collection of campaign aides and union members use a red, white and blue rope to form a perimeter around him as he marched up Fifth Avenue on Saturday morning for New York\u2019s Labor Day parade, which is held the Saturday after Labor Day.\n <\/p>\n \n They even marched by Trump Tower, where they cheered and applauded the perennial protesters across the street, though they did not stop to engage.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe specialty of Donald Trump and his puppets is lots of noise and very few results, but what we\u2019ve seen over the past few weeks is just how fixated the president is on doing everything in his power to stop our campaign from getting to City Hall,\u201d Mamdani told CNN after his energetic town hall<\/a> at Brooklyn College with Sanders on Saturday night. \u201cAnd he\u2019s doing that because he knows that while we share the same diagnosis of a cost-of-living crisis in this city and across this country, unlike him and his movement, we will actually do something about it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Adams marched in the same parade as Mamdani without any campaign staff with him. He wore a white collared shirt embroidered with \u201cEric Adams\u201d in script in the front and \u201cMAYOR\u201d in big letters on the back, along with a blue cap that read \u201cMAYOR ADAMS.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Some around Cuomo believe that Adams will soon drop out even after the mayor summoned reporters on Friday to label Cuomo a \u201csnake\u201d with a history of undercutting Black politicians.\n <\/p>\n \n He turned zen when asked by CNN on Saturday what New York voters should make of him and the talk he might not finish the race, then turned that zen into an attack.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s life. Life is twists and turns,\u201d Adams said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that those who are running have not had those twists and turns; they haven\u2019t had hard times.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Mamdani and Cuomo, he said, are just privileged scions who only recently decided they wanted to be mayor, unlike his lifelong pursuit of the job he\u2019s being pushed by some to abandon.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI mean, what have we become?\u201d Adams said indignantly. \u201cThat\u2019s what New Yorkers must ask: Who am I running against? That\u2019s what we need to focus on.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The White House did not respond to questions about the president\u2019s efforts. But John Catsimatidis, the billionaire friend of Trump whose calls to the president about the race instigated his involvement, said, \u201cI\u2019m not worried.\u201d He said those repelled by Trump\u2019s involvement have \u201cderangement\u201d since the president is just calling attention to the threat they believe Mamdani poses.\n <\/p>\n \n A key deadline is Thursday, when the city board of elections will certify November\u2019s ballot. \u201cLet things sort themselves out the next few days,\u201d Catsimatidis said.\n <\/p>\n \n Saturday night, Catsimatidis hosted Adams at his birthday party. He said he told Adams again at the party to take the Trump administration\u2019s job offer.\n <\/p>\n \n An hour after Adams was on the same parade route, Cuomo stood on his own a few blocks away, taking in the scene of each city union delegation marching by. He had just a few volunteers and staff at the parade, with nowhere near the attention Mamdani was drawing.\n <\/p>\n \n Cuomo ran over to chat with the driver of a bright blue 1970s-era Dodge Charger, a vintage model of his own preferred car. He took some selfies. He kissed a few old labor leaders on the cheek.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cMake a deal,\u201d one union official said, peeling out of his delegation to run over to Cuomo. \u201cSave us from Mamdani. Do whatever you have to do. I\u2019m counting on you to save us from Mamdani.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Some of these union members, Cuomo knew, had drifted toward Trump. Others were holding up their own handmade signs for Mamdani. When a Cuomo volunteer was rebuffed trying to hand a Cuomo sign to one group \u2014 \u201cMamdani,\u201d a person in the group said back \u2014 it enraged Chris Erikson, the business manager for Local Union No. 3, IBEW electrical workers, which had officially backed the former governor that morning after first endorsing him in the primary.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe socialist sh*t!\u201d he called out. \u201cDon\u2019t buy that sh*t!\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n There\u2019s still time for Cuomo, Erikson told CNN. Union members and every other New Yorker should read the Democratic Socialists of America platform, he said, and be scared. As for Adams, Erikson said, \u201cthe ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia would be hard to pass up for a guy like him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Since Mamdani defeated him in June\u2019s Democratic primary, Cuomo has become more active on social media, frequently posting with meme-inspired language that differs from his usual style. He has also been making more public appearances around the city \u2014 something he often claimed to do during the primary campaign but rarely actually did.\n <\/p>\n \n He spent the weekend repeating he didn\u2019t want the White House\u2019s help.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThis is very simple: The Republicans want Mayor Mamdani at the end of the day. \u2026 Why? If Zohran Mamdani wins, they will pick him up and carry him around the country and kill Democrats with him. They will use him in the midterm elections. They will use him to run against the governor of New York. He is the perfect stooge for President Trump,\u201d Cuomo told reporters. \u201cThere is no doubt about it. Everything else is baloney.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Cuomo denies he\u2019s involved with what Trump is doing. He says he\u2019s not dropping out. For all their entangled personal and political history, Cuomo says he \u201cwould never go working with Trump officials.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n He walked about half the route, peeling off before they passed Trump Tower.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe punditry and the polls, you take that all with a grain of salt: Who are they talking to? But these are New Yorkers, right? Unfiltered,\u201d Cuomo told CNN after he finished marching, now turning around how burnt he felt after being ahead in every primary poll before he lost in June. \u201cThousands of people walk by, right? And you see the response. That\u2019s the poll that counts.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Cuomo told CNN he is not bothering with any of his own conversations to try to game the race. But he has mused about it at fundraisers and in one-on-one meetings. Over breakfast on Friday, he asked the Rev. Al Sharpton that \u201cif it comes down to him and Mamdani, would I at least keep an open mind?\u201d Sharpton recalled in an interview.\n <\/p>\n \n Sharpton\u2019s answer: \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d (A Cuomo spokesman called the conversation \u201cpositive and productive.\u201d)\n <\/p>\n \n Sharpton said he won\u2019t call on Adams to quit. He said he suspects that Trump\u2019s attention tracks back to real estate interests that the president, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and adviser Steve Witkoff have in the city. Kushner and Witkoff both joined Trump to watch the US Open in Queens on Sunday, an appearance at which Trump drew<\/a> a mix of boos and cheers.\n <\/p>\n \n At his town hall Saturday evening with Sanders, Mamdani said he expected the president to soon send in National Guard troops to New York City, as Trump has done in Washington and been threatening to do more broadly. The only way to fight back is partnership among elected officials, Mamdani argued, and Trump\u2019s interventions would now leave other Democratic leaders even less likely to want to work with Cuomo as mayor.\n <\/p>\n
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