NYC needs a mayoral race centered on the citys needs, NOT Democrats anti-Trump obsessions
Last week’s debate confirmed that the Democrats running for mayor are competing almost exclusively on a near-irrelevant issue: who can fight President Donald Trump the most.The field of nine mentioned Trump more than 80 times in two hours; the only other theme to come close was the eight candidates’ pile-on of the clear frontrunner among them, Andrew Cuomo.And even Cuomo has joined the club-Trump club: When he first entered the race, he talked about working with the White House; now he, too, vows to resist.Reality check: New York City depends on more than $100 billion a year in federal aid.No, the law doesn’t give any president a free hand to mess with most of that, but a Republican president with a Republican Congress is all too able to change the law to slow that flow.Especially when the feds face near-$2 trillion annual deficits, the city votes overwhelmingly Democratic, and New York state’s few GOP members of Congress are stretched to cover their own constituents’ needs.The president is a son of Queens who rose to fame as an NYC developer, a lifelong Post reader still fond of the city even though the likes of state Attorney General Tish James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have done their best to bankrupt and imprison him.With the eager cooperation of hack judges put on the bench by the city’s Dem clubhouses.
Yes, base Democratic voters despise the president; that’s why James, Bragg & Co.waged their scorched-earth (but failed) lawfare against him, and why the mayoral candidates talk so tough.Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani bragging he’s “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare, as a progressive Muslim immigrant”; ex-city Comptroller Scott Stringer using his first TV ad to call the prez “this schmuck” and promise to “tell Trump where to stick it.”State Sen.
Zellnor Myrie is offering a lunatic fantasy of withholding New Yorkers’ federal income taxes, pretending “that gives us the tax base so we can be independent of the White...