NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press conference (Fox)
Trump, according to a New York Times report this week, recently spoke on the phone with Cuomo and has been talking with associates about who has the best chance to beat Mamdani between Cuomo, current mayor Eric Adams, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
When asked what Mamdani would tell Trump if the president called, he said, "I will tell Donald Trump the same thing I'm telling you right now. That's what makes me different than Andrew Cuomo. Whatever I say on a sidewalk, I say in a press conference, I say in the morning, it's the same agenda. It's fighting for the same people. And I will make that case to everyone. What I will not do, however, is pick up the phone to call Donald Trump, to ask how we can work together to defeat the will of Democrats across this. And. That's what Andrew Cuomo did."
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One on Aug. 1, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"And you don't need to take me at my word or take Andrew Cuomo at his," Mamdani said. "You need only look at the actions of the Trump administration since I won the Democratic primary. How else can you describe a president who has proposed de-naturalizing the Democratic nominee of New York City? How else can you describe a president who has sought to entertain suggestions of deporting me, of arresting me, of taking control of the city over the will of New Yorkers? Those are the actions of a president who is afraid of the fact that I will actually deliver in a manner where he is simply betrayed."
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