Andrew Cuomo says he’ll run a third-party bid for New York mayor after losing Democratic primary
Andrew Cuomo says he’ll run a third-party bid for New York mayor after losing Democratic primary | CNN Politics
you think cuomo will split the vote for zohran? he's probably gonna screw over eric adams by running independent
Haha I wondered how they would try to stop Mamdani becoming mayor.
It's insane to me they would rather split the vote and put one of Trump's puppets in office rather than move their platform slightly left of center.
And after Mamdani hired one of the DNC's consultants to nerf all his policies appeal to the centrists who have thus far refused to endorse him.
It's almost as though the centrist wing of the party does absolutely nothing in good faith and will do everything they can to ratfuck anyone to their left.
I'm not sure this is party desperation so much as it is Cuomo's ego. I'd call it 75% ego at least.
That'd be blaming the one bad egg, not the the institutions. Neoliberals will ally themselves with fascists to fight socialists. But I guess it's possible. Also good strategy, blame the rogue politician instead of their moral bankruptcy.
DNC normally "3rd parties don't function in our two party system, there's no point in voting for them
DNC after losing their own primary: 3rd party it is
DNC normally "3rd parties don't function in our two party system, there's no point in voting for them
That part is just reality.
That's why they sued to keep De La Cruz off the ballot in swing states.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" reverts to "Party Unity My Ass" as soon as centrists don't get 100% of everything they want.
What a goddamn pussy
The Democratic Party WILL rig the general election. Hell, they’ll probably work with Republicans to get their candidate in over Mamdani.
Who owns the machines? Is the software audited? Are there tabulation servers involved?
Republican
both cumuo and ADAMS is doing it for the gop.
I don't know if they'll rig the actual vote directly but the DNC will most certainly spend hundreds of millions to make him look like the devil incarnate leading up to the election even if it means getting a Republican in office. They already did this in 2016 and 2024.
What an absolute chode
Don’t you mean taint?
Gooch.
If Mamdani holds out until November, the rest of the country will see that it is possible to vote for a fair shake. If he gets buried, I think voting will be the least of our worries.
Remember kids: Vote blue no matter who only applies to progressives.
Want to run a campaign against the duly nominated candidate?
Only if you’re a neoliberal sex pest. Otherwise you want republicans to win.
You think the DNC is pushing this? Or is this just throwing shit to throw shit?
Vote blue still applies here. I don't know who told you it doesn't.
Well, let’s see what happens. If the Democratic establishment pushes Mamdani hard, this will be true.
The person you’re replying to is just used to the establishment fighting against progressive insurgents.
You think the DNC is pushing this?
I think they're going to be more open about doing so as the election approaches.
Vote blue still applies here.
Progressives step aside when centrists win the primaries that the party went to court for the right to rig.
For a second I had this confused with the Toronto mayoral election, where the former sex pest mayor is rumored to be considering re-running against the person who supplanted him last election
It also reminds me of the incumbent NDP ridings we lost to the cons because liberal voters don't do strategic voting, yet they expect progressives to.
It has to feel so good voting against this total fuckwit twice in one election. /jealous
The general election won't have ranked choice. Adams and Cuomo may end up splitting the "willing to vote for corrupt dirtbag" ticket and let Mamdani cruise to victory.
We can dream.
I expect one or the other will get pressured/bribed into dropping out.
May it be so.
Won’t work. Democrats are like any other voting group: they stick with their party, no matter the majority candidate. Because losing to the enemy is worse than losing to an infra-party faction. This is how Trump got elected twice. It’ll happen again, because people are predictable.
Not true, unfortunately. In Buffalo, NY, traitor Byron Brown ran and won as a write in candidate after losing the Democratic mayoral primary to India Walton.
He's just hoping that enough people vote for him that it'll split the vote and that Adams will win. They're liberals, they'd rather literal fascists win than leftists.
Even by running DNC is dumping their war chest on this fight. If Mamdani loses or fucks up, those are less funds in the DNC coffers and IMO draining those idiots of every cent is a valuable goal.
If the market doesn't agree with a democratic victory centrists won't abandon the market, they will abandon victory.
is any republican even campaigining, either one will try to give each other win, adams is clearly a republican.
The Jill Stein approach then...
No, I’m not that pessimistic. Their allegiance is to party loyalty, not an opposing political viewpoint like facism. The guy’s a true believer, and his intent isn’t to sabotage to Democratic Party but to reform it. I don’t agree with all of his positions, but I like him better than Cuomo right now. The real issue is that Cuomo isn’t a right-wing Nazi like the Far-Left want you to believe. Maintain your centricity and don’t get played into viewing things the way the media outlets and political parties want you to see them.
It doubly won't work since isn't Eric Adams doing the same thing? Two establishment politicians running as independents?
These fuckers are so obsessed with power and pushing their "vision" that they refuse to let go, step aside,or support the younger generations coming up that ha e a very different view on the world and how it should be. Get these geriatric fucks out of office and let's move into the 21st century.
They're preventing the change that's actually going to allow the left win elections again. It's pretty obvious that the Democratic Tea Party moment is starting. Who's knows what this will be called years from now, but it's starting. They learned nothing from what the party did to Bernie Sanders.
He knows he can't win. He can only split the vote, and he's gonna do it anyway.
They learned nothing from what the party did to Bernie Sanders.
They learned that they're ok with losing to republicans as long as progressives are shut out.
I still don't understand how this is supposed to work even in principle. Clearly the sort of people who voted in the primary prefer Mamdani by a wide margin. Is Cuomo expecting to be elected by people who didn't care enough to vote in the primary but do care enough to vote for him despite the fact that he's not the Democratic candidate? Does he think that there are more people like that than there are people who voted for him in the primary but will vote for Mamdani in the general election?
Clearly the sort of people who voted in the primary prefer Mamdani by a wide margin.
Yes, but party leadership prefers the sex pest cuomo or the corrupt adams or even the dipshit fascist sliwa to any progressive.
He’s there to ensure that true left policies are strangled in the crib.
nyc primaries have terrible voter turnout, somewhere between 20-30% of registered dem voters in the city. Mamdani did get a record number of voters out to the polls but Cuomo’s camp is thinking they can reinvigorate the other 70% of dems who sat this primary out. So yes, Cuomo is banking on this but I hope his highly paid pol consultants are very wrong.
"Vote blue no matter who" for me but not for thee
Democrats think we vote for them because we like them
Yep, this is one thing we have because of this set of events… there is no excuse now not to primary establishment democrats nor is there any reason to vote blue no matter who… and the corporate establishment democrats are shitting their pants
At this point democratic leadership could come out in favor of Mamdani the destroyer and it would only lose him votes. I hope
I hope
To be fair: The Democratic Party isn't a viable political engine for positive social change or a working-class agenda. If Cuomo wins it will be yet another example of how untrustworthy, hypocritical, and vapid Blue No Matter Who voting habits are.
Now it's time to hammer home the fact that it's liberals' turn to "vote blue no matter who."
Remember when mods coordinated to ban any criticism of BNMW / Blue Maga from all the major subs during 2024? How they the cultivated a community of briggading, sea-lioning, etc.. to try and suppress any criticism of an approach to politics that was obviously going to hand the country to Trump?
.My ass. I wish the mods had banned obviously disingenuous "let's let Trump win to make a point, what's the difference anyway" made-up critique that blamed Kamala Harris for Gaza and inflation, under a tissue-thin pretense of "I just care about the country sooooooooooooooooooooo much that I'm giving well informed constructive criticism." Instead we had to just yell at y'all about it in the comments, which since there were hundreds of posts and comments every single day with that viewpoint was always a losing battle. Even trolling of crayon-quality transparency of the UniversalMonk variety was explicitly allowed by the mods, and people who objected to it too strongly got banned for it.
The whining about how you're not allowed to get your message out, which is constantly broadcasted on every channel where you're claiming you're being silenced, is just part and parcel of the alternate reality you're having a good bit of success in constructing. MAGA does it too, it's part of the package.
Yes, and they've apparently decided to abandon this community in order to wall themselves off from we BoTh SiDeS-ers.
Wouldn't Cuomo not have the (D) next to his name this time?
You’re missing the point. Vote Blue No Matter Who means that competitors are supposed to step aside after a primary and support the winning candidate. In practice, this means they expect the losing progressive candidate to suck it up and support the establishment democrat. Now that a progressive has won the primary, the establishment democrat is refusing to step aside.
So yes, he technically won’t have a D next to his name, but it is well understood that he is an arm of the political machine that is refusing to respect the will of the voters.
The point is its "vote blue no matter who" until it's against the pro-business centrists in the Democratic party, and then it's "fuck you, we'll run independent and split the vote to let a Republican win!" because they only say that it's important to not let perfect be the enemy of good when it comes to corrupt fuckheads who don't give a single iota of a shit about working class people. They're happy to drop the facade when someone like Mamdani gets in, they'd rather a Republican win than someone with real plans for change.
What?
How would voting I be voting blue?
Why are people up voting that? It makes zero sense...
It isn't, but since centrists didn't get their very first choice, they're fine with it now.
Cuomo is the one violating the VBNMW
He should hold his nose and vote for the nominee.
“While Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams trip over themselves, to make deals in back rooms with billionaires, we are focused on fighting for working New Yorkers,” Mamdani said Monday flanked by members of the city’s American Federation of Musicians Local 802. “We are focused on the very people who make this city what it is and who are being pushed out of it.” And he replied to Cuomo’s video on X with a link to donate to his own campaign.
Idk if the link under the billionaire abuser's video was Mamdani's idea or his campaign, but of the three candidates' excerpted quotes in the article, I know which is more inspiring.
I love Mumdani. He's like a boxer fighting out of his weight class and dominating
They can't land a hit on him, but he punishes every mistake. He never gets tired, he never lets up on the pressure
It feels great to watch him. It feels like winning.
This is fucking amazing.
E: The ratio.... - https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1944832025652871492
Mamdani FTW
Good luck pervert.
He’s a fat turd
He can be the third party where his wife and me are having sex and hes the cuck