Only in New York could you get this kind of political plot twist. With the clock ticking down, President Trump jumped into the mayoral race and swung a sledgehammer at frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, labeling him a communist and warning that a Mamdani victory would come with a very cold federal checkbook. The message was classic Trump, sharp and unmistakable. If New York elects a pro communist mayor, do not expect Washington to shovel in anything beyond the legal minimum. Translation, if City Hall insists on running a utopian experiment that always ends in a breadline, do not send the bill to the rest of America.
Then came the real shocker. President Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo, the former governor and longtime rival, over Mamdani and Republican stalwart Curtis Sliwa. He even tossed Sliwa a playful jab about the beret, then made the hard math clear. In a three way race, a vote for Sliwa is effectively a boost to Mamdani. If your top priority is stopping an open socialist from taking the keys to City Hall, consolidate behind the candidate who can actually win. In this case, that is Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary.
The warning was not just rhetorical. President Trump argued that Mamdani would drive the Big Apple into a complete and total economic and social disaster. He pointed out, correctly, that communist principles have been tested for centuries with the same result, shortages, state control, and misery. New York already has enough problems, crime, taxes, flight of businesses and families, crumbling services. It does not need to add five year plans and ideological purity tests.
Polling suggests the race tightened at the end. One late survey from AtlasIntel reportedly has Mamdani at 43.9, Cuomo at 39.4, and Sliwa at 15.5, with a sliver undecided and a two point margin of error. That math is exactly why splitting the anti Mamdani vote is political malpractice. If you want to stop a left wing ideologue from running the nation’s largest city, you rally around the only viable alternative.
President Trump was not alone. Elon Musk also urged New Yorkers to back Cuomo, ribbing Sliwa’s spoiler effect and telling his followers to get to the polls. When Trump and Musk are saying the same thing about a New York race, you know the stakes are not subtle.
New York is President Trump’s first home, and he made it clear he will not reward a City Hall that wages class warfare while sending hat in hand letters to Washington. New Yorkers who want a city that functions, that prosecutes criminals, that welcomes business instead of taxing it to death, should read the room. If the choice is between a hardened ideologue and a bruised but proven executive who can keep the lights on, you pick competence over theory. That is not selling out. That is survival.
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