＂Mamdani Is RICH!＂ Andrew Cuomo EXPOSES Mamdani’s Luxury Lifestyle Despite Rent-Controlled Apartment
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Summary
Zoran Mandami and his wife own property in Uganda, and they make $142,000 a year. Yet, they pay $2,300 a month in rent for a nice apartment in Astoria that should be housing for someone who needs it.
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So finally, Andrew Cuomo goes on the offensive.
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He writes a tweet, whether he wrote it, team wrote it, whoever it is,
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Because I also want to see the commentary and the criticism that comes with it.
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So if you can go to X, go to Andrew Cuomo, perfect.
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And if you can go to that tweet, he finally decides to aggressively go after Mamdani.
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And he exposes him to the point that De Blasio had to respond.
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A bunch of people had to respond to what he had to say.
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Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter
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because you, Assemblyman Mamdani, are occupying her rent-controlled apartment.
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You grew up rich and married even a wealthier woman.
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You own property in LGBTQIA plus murderous Uganda.
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Your wife works too, meaning you together likely make over $200,000 a year.
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No matter which way you cut it, Mamdani is a rich person.
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Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month as you have bragged for a nice apartment in Astoria
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that should be housing for someone who needs it.
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We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis.
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Millions of low-income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it.
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Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don't need it.
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Today I'm calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back
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Rob, if you can play the clip of what he says about his rent.
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I don't know if you can find that or if you can't, Rob.
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Just go back to Andrew Cuomo's video up top, and it will go to De Blasio's.
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I think it's keep going, keep going, keep going.
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So then in this one here, he announces that he's going to be doing something.
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Rent-stabilized units when they're vacant should only be rented to people who need affordable housing.
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You don't need to be renting rent-stabilized units to wealthy people.
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Otherwise, what you're doing is you're abusing the system.
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I'm going to propose not rent that apartment by law, except to a person who actually needs affordable housing.
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And I'm going to call it Zoran's law because it's an abuse of the system.
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Well, first of all, whoever Mandami's advisors are, that was not a talking point to me because you're sticking your chin out there against Mike Tyson.
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And I think Andrew Cuomo reacted the way an opponent's going to react in New York, saying, are you crazy?
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It was like a fastball, and Andrew Cuomo hit it so hard the ball hasn't landed.
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And he's also coming back and saying, and by the way, we need to make a law because New York is famous for the rent control laws.
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And much as I don't like the rent control laws, he's making a point here.
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If we have rent-controlled housing and it's supposed to be for people like this, then let's make a threshold so that the people that it's intended for can get it.
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It doesn't become a cost benefit to other people that may get into it.
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And I think he's putting out a proposal for Zoran's law that suddenly gives him something really to run against this guy.
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What Andrew Cuomo was missing, I think, for the last week was he was kind of out there, you know, what do you go with, Pat?
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And then everybody was going, yeah, I remember a little bit about COVID too, dude.
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And now I think he actually has a plank to run on.
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To be fair, Tom Rob, if you can go to that tweet of Cuomo, the first one, we'll come back to the De Blasio one.
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If you can go to the first one that he put up and, yeah, go down a little bit.
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And let's just read the comments because the comments is what matters the most.
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He's an expert socialist fraud, rich and tighter hoarding.
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I came to the comments expecting you to be getting cooked in some version of the story.
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Sounds like you may have actually uncovered something here.
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Go a little bit lower, Rob, to see if there's any criticism of what's being said.
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I guess what's happening here, and they figured something out with, what do you call it?
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If you comment, you automatically bring up the comments that are most favorable of you.
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Do you understand what just happened right there?
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I don't know if you understand what I'm saying to you.
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I commented there, and him and I exchanged messages yesterday.
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One of the things I said to him yesterday was the following.
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I said, if you roll up your sleeves and play offense like this daily, November 4th will be a good day.
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Your opponent is young, nimble, energetic, and shameless.
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Running for mayor is very different than running for governor.
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Running for governor is different than Congress, than Senate, than mayor, than president.
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Like, you know, DeSantis was good for running for what?
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So it's a very different game nationally versus this.
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But the more central it is, the more smaller it is, the more it's grassroots.
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So Andrew Cuomo has to act like he's 30 years old, drinking his coffee, drinking his energy drink, whatever he goes.
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Go a little bit with energy where you're hungry throughout the day.
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Maybe have dinner early at 5 o'clock and still go back at it and play offense.
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Because the reality of it is, this guy's not going to be slowing down.
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Having said that, here's what de Blasio said, and then I'm going to come to you.
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De Blasio, the former mayor, who is probably, I don't know, some will say the worst mayor New York's had in our lifetime.
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He said, I did a rent freeze, and almost 2 million hardworking New Yorkers benefited.
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And he thinks he can trick us into forgetting that.
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Can we see the comments section below what people are saying about de Blasio?
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Actually, you didn't go to the comments section.
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How do apartment owners continue to run business if you deny them the rent that they deserve for the property?
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The rest want to pamper the rich and rent freeze.
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Push those billionaires out and see what happens.
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I heard reports that 123 billionaires may leave New York City if Zorana is elected.
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I strongly suggest that 90% of their wealth be extracted via, oh my God, an exit tax.
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If working people don't get a break soon, they're going to come take their shares the hard way.
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The idea that New Yorkers benefited during the excruciatingly ideological and practical term is laughable.
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It didn't thrive under your confused and egocentric leadership.
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Well, you know, this argument about rent freezes, let's play the pros and cons.
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People that are renting, they basically protect vulnerable people from massive rent increases in expensive cities like New York City.
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So landlords will then become slumlords because if you cannot increase the rent and pay your mortgage or pay your expenses, what are you going to do with the properties?
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You're just going to let them rot and you're not going to maintain them.
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You're not going to fix them and the properties will go to crap.
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Very good point, which is what's happening currently right now.
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But if you're Cuomo, as much as I'm a believer in Chris Cuomo's shift to the middle and being reasonable, it is way too late for Andrew Cuomo to do anything here.
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Remember the song from One Republic that goes, it's too late, it's too late to apologize.
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By the way, if you look at the poly markets right now, Zoran Mandani is 80% likely to win.
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Cuomo and Eric Adams are combined, I think 16, 17%, 8 and 8, 9 and 8, whatever way you cut it.
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This guy Mandani is going to win the New York City mayoral race.
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And let's just be prepared for a communist Islamist to take over and let's see what happens in New York City.
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I think a lot of them are going to be moving to Miami.
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This guy's got a smile that is infectious, like cancer.
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But let me explain something to you how politics works.
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I'm going to explain something to you and I'm going to educate you.
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No, man, I'm just going to give you what's going on here.
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Don't forget what happened with the great, legendary, apple-eating Canadian named Pierre Polyev.
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And I'm like, I'm going to, not only did he think he was going to be the prime minister of Canada,
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it felt like he believed he was going to be the leader of the free world.
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Yeah, he's a chevalu, you know what I'm saying?
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And last minute, two to four weeks before election, he gets destroyed by a freaking
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And it becomes the worst political loss of our lifetime with a guy that had that big of
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If Andrew's your brother, if Andrew's my brother, you have to go on a podcast and address your F-ups.
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And I know in that family, neither one of them want to.
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And that has to be an Italian thing, something their father told them many years ago.
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Because they believe if you do, the other side's going to do what?
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But if he wants to go and address that and clear it up and go past it, you have to be
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But in the last four weeks of New York City, you don't know who's going to come out and
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Apparently, Trump and Andrew Cuomo had a conversation together where Trump is wanting to help Andrew
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And if you put up a story, Andrew Cuomo, type in Andrew.
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If you put and then go to news, there's a story of Trump called them or something happened.
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Did Trump and Cuomo actually talk on the phone three days ago?
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Go on that and click on the video if you could.
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So apparently these guys spoke and you think Trump's going to want Mamdani to win over
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Don't forget the moment Trump saw that Pierre Polyev was being cocky and arrogant.
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I kind of like the Carney guy who ended up winning.
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Andrew Cuomo is doubling down on his denials of reports that he spoke with President Trump
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But the Democratic nominees are on Mamdani does not believe him and is lashing out at
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Robert Moses joins us now with the very latest on this.
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Curt and Rosanna, who says the summer is the quiet time leading up to the election?
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With 88 days to go until the election, the candidates are still sparring over that New
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York Times report claiming that President Donald Trump and former Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke
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Cuomo says the president actually prefers state Assemblyman Zeran Mamdani and Mayor Eric Adams
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over him for different reasons and denies the New York Times reporting.
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I can't remember the last time I spoke to President Trump.
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I've never spoken to him about the mayor's race.
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He accuses Cuomo of, quote, conspiring with President Trump to the detriment.
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Okay, well, I don't understand the strategy behind it.
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So you think it's a good idea for you to rally the troops to get behind you to claim
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You don't think New Yorkers who, the Israel community of New York, the logical community
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of New York, the billionaires of New York, the Christians of New York, the Republicans
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of New York, the libertarians of New York, the independents of New York, you don't think
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Trump can help you get that vote and beat Mamdani?
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There is a certain arrogance that went with Pierre Polivet and that goes with Mandami.
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But there is a certain arrogance that goes with people that are up in the polls.
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And sometimes it doesn't make you much of a fighter.
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And then to sit there and say you've conspired with Trump.
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Why don't you just come out and say you're anti-everything that the United States stands
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Like, you've got so many easy things to go after.
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And that got tens of millions of views just on X, let alone how many views it got of people
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Here's another story that came up with Mamdani.
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It's the fact that he hired private security after calling to defund the police.
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I don't know if you've got a clip on that, Rob, or not.
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This is the actual clip from 2020 where he made the claim to defund the police.
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Are you for a serious reform that people can see on the ground?
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What that means is that right now in New York City, we have a budget of close to $6 billion
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And I think that what we need to do is not chip away a million dollars or five million.
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I think in this first year, we need to take a billion dollars out of that budget.
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Now, he openly, you know, the Mamdani spent $33,495 in June and July on advanced security
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and investigations, making three payments ranging from $8,000 to $13,000.
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Despite his 2020 statements like queer liberation means defunding the police, the company advertises
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itself as a proud employer of cops in New York Police Department, which Mamdani has personally
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called to defund following a Manhattan shooting, where an off-duty NYPD police officer was murdered.
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Mamdani faced backlash for his anti-cop stance on X.
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But there's many opportunities to go up against this after he had a massive wedding.
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I just think, I don't know who is Cuomo's campaign manager and who he's talking to about
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I hope it's somebody that isn't the same as usual because you're not going in a typical,
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traditional, same old campaign as you have in the past.
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This is a case study nobody can give you advice on.
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There's never been a time that you can go and look at a campaign like the one today where
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Trump's at, where Mamdani's at, where America's at, where New York is at.
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I don't know if I'm taking counsel from the typical guys that are, let me, here's what
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James Carver, let me tell you what I'm going to, I think this is a very, very different,
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it's a mistake to take advice from anybody on politics right now that's above 60 years
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I mean, well, first off, I want Adam's, I think Adam's right.
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And if I had to bet, if somebody gave me a hundred grand and said, you have to bet this
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I want New Yorkers to feel and see what the hell that you want it.
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He's pro-Islamic, whatever the hell he's doing.
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He was talking about, he said something along the lines of, he argued that suicide bombers
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I don't want to give away anything, Pat, what you recently said.
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That in four years, when we come back, because the elections win, is it April?
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And here's, at the end of the day, I think I mentioned this once too.
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Andrew Cuomo, with all due respect, what he did during COVID, there's no coming back from that.
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What he did with all the old people and all the deaths, nobody's going to forget that.
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This is their best choice, is a freaking communist, okay?
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And the people that are backing him, the people that they're interviewing, and the man on the street,
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With the amount of crime in New York, you know what that means, Adam?
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When you get stabbed, a social worker is going to come up to you and be like, to the stabber.
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I'm telling you right now, it's the modern-day Gotham City, and I don't feel bad for them.
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You keep voting for these people, good for you.
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And I think that Cuomo needs to be talking to the core independents that are in Portland.
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Now they've come back, and the people of Portland, Oregon are like, you know, this defund the police thing didn't work.
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We want, and it's ridiculous the percentages you see in polls of people that want them to please fund the police in Portland, Oregon.
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I think it was a poll that was done that we covered on the podcast about three weeks ago.
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Over two-thirds of all voters were like, yeah, you know, a few cops around here would be helpful, come in handy.
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So I believe that they need to be talking to Cuomo's campaign.
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They've got to go get to some people that are running these successful campaigns back against it in places like Portland and bring it back.
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And George Will, our friend George Will, was on Bill Maher, and he sums it up at the end.
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One of our leading lights was a socialist named Anurian Bevan.
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He said, we have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish.
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It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either.
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And by the way, what George Will said here, I think yesterday or on Friday, I don't know when this was.
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I want him to win because every 20 years we need a conspicuous, confined experience with social media so we can crack it up again.
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There's the other part of me that wants a case study.
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Well, those of you that don't know George Will, I think he was one of the first people that got you into the political game.
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He was a very smart guy and definitely made his way in the world.
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Regarding New York City and the potential mayor, Zoran Mondani, people think that this is sort of a bug.
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I can't believe that they're going to vote for this communist, this socialist.
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What people don't understand is this is not a bug.
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The people of New York City are voting for him because he's a communist, because he's an Islamist, because he's a socialist.
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That is the reason that they're voting for him.
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And this whole social experiment that we're doing where the taxpayers will have to pay for all this.
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Here's a guy who's basically the anti-Zoran Mondani explaining how it works.
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Zoran is going to pay for free child care, free buses when he's going to step into office on the first day.
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And he's going to realize, actually, the mayor doesn't have any power to raise money on the rich.
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And that was his plan to pay for all this crap to begin with.
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He's going to pay for it by raising property taxes, raising other taxes in any way that he can.
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The thing you've got to understand is I'm from South Richmond Hill.
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People in the outer boroughs over there, they don't have these big, fancy corporate tech jobs.
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The way they make their money is they own maybe a deli across the street or they own a spice shop or they work there.
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And those people are the ones that are going to absorb these higher taxes that he's going to use to generate income for his ill-conceived ideas.
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And by the way, while we're on New York City, let me tell you how many bad ideas New York City keeps coming up with.
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That is March of 2009, 16 years ago, when I heard him give a speech.
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And from that moment on, I'm like, man, this makes it.
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I gave a 90-minute talk the following day, Saturday morning.
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And this was a Clermont Institute event with Larry Arnn.
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This is right around the time you started PHP, no?
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A part of this meeting was why I started PHP, believe it or not.
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And by the way, the other day, Michael Beasley was doing a podcast.
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We're not seeing people actually wearing a future looks bright hat all over the place.
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I get so many people on X who are posting pictures while they watch this podcast.
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And they'll tell me how they're watching the podcast.
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But they'll say, man, look at my future looks bright hat.
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More importantly, we need to convert more people that are coming here.
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We were just in L.A. this last weekend for, what do you call it, that show that happens.
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