Andrew Cuomo, New York Metropolis mayoral candidate, throughout a marketing campaign occasion in New York, US, on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Monday evening explicitly known as on New York Metropolis residents to vote for Andrew Cuomo over Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani within the mayoral election.
Trump’s endorsement of Cuomo’s unbiased candidacy got here on the eve of the election, and hours after Tesla CEO Elon Musk equally endorsed the previous New York governor.
Each Trump and Musk stated that voting for the Republican nominee, Curtis Sliwa, was successfully a vote for the Meeting member Mamdani, who has constantly held a stable lead in polls.
“A vote for Curtis Sliwa (who appears a lot better with out the beret!) is a vote for Mamdani,” Trump wrote in a Fact Social put up.
“Whether or not you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you actually haven’t any alternative,” Trump wrote.
“You need to vote for him, and hope he does a incredible job. He’s able to it, Mamdani is just not!”
Cuomo is a Democrat. He’s operating as an unbiased as a result of he was defeated by Mamdani within the get together’s major in June.
Mamdani’s spokesman quickly after advised The New York Occasions that Trump’s endorsement of Cuomo was “completely the nail within the coffin for Andrew Cuomo.”
In the identical put up on Monday evening, Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from New York if Mamdani, who’s a self-identified democratic socialist, wins on Tuesday.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York Metropolis, it’s extremely unlikely that I will likely be contributing Federal Funds, apart from the very minimal as required, to my beloved first house, due to the truth that, as a Communist, this as soon as nice Metropolis has ZERO probability of success, and even survival!” Trump wrote.
Mamdani is just not a communist.
Musk, in a put up on his social media website X, wrote, “Bear in mind to vote tomorrow in New York! Keep in mind {that a} vote for Curtis can be a vote for Mumdumi or no matter his title is.
The Occasions reported Monday that Mamdani, throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Queens, stated that he had identified “for months” that Trump would again Mr. Cuomo.
“In these remaining days, what was rumored, what was feared, has turn into bare and unabashed,” Mamdani reportedly stated. “The MAGA motion’s embrace of Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump’s understanding that this might be one of the best mayor for him — not one of the best mayor for New York Metropolis, not one of the best mayor for New Yorkers, however one of the best mayor for Donald Trump and his administration.”
