NYC mayoral candidates see who can promise more than upstart socialist Mamdani while Cuomo ducks and dodges debate attacks

Zohran Mamdani might or might not win the Dems’ mayoral primary, but the first debate showed he’s already won the argument.The two-hour showdown turned into a bidding war to see who could promise to deliver more government giveaways than the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman.It’s a lost cause when the trend setter is an admitted socialist who promises free everything, from food to rent to bus service.Free except, of course, for the evil top 1 percent, who would be taxed to pay for it all.Unless they pack up and join the huge exodus of people who already have given up on New York ever fixing itself.The debate showed how deeply the rot runs and why pessimism about the city’s future is the only sane response.The sickening pandering to the left amounts to a race to the bottom, and re-affirmed for me why I don’t have a candidate yet.I didn’t see anyone on that stage whom I can envision doing even an average job in City Hall, let alone turning around a declining city the way Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg did.Mamdani is the flavor of the moment for many young voters, but his socialist ideas are dead-enders.Is he really that ignorant about the history of the world and the countries that have gone full socialist?Additionally, his refusal again to say Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state is disqualifying.If it talks and walks like an antisemite, it’s an antisemite.Mayor Adams, whom I supported four years ago, is such a wounded incumbent that he saw no path forward in his party, so he’s running as an independent.The other major theme of the evening was the gang-up on Andrew Cuomo.

Polls have consistently shown him as the clear front-runner, with Mamdani running a solid second and most of the others stuck in single digits.While I expected that Cuomo, the former governor who resigned in August of 2021 before he could be impeached and convicted over a slew of sexual harassment allegations, would be a target, I was surprised at how frequently ev...

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