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Frontrunner in the race for mayor’s post Zohran Mamdani promised to work with Donald Trump, Even if the President vowed to refund the money if elected new york city If he wins.
During the debate Thursday night, Mamdani was asked what he would say in his first official call with Trump if he is elected mayor of NYC on November 4, “to set the tone for your relationship.”
Mamani, a sympathy Had a public fight with TrumpSaid, “I will make it clear to the President that I am willing not only to talk to him, but to work with him if it means lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers.”
But convincing Trump to talk to Mamdani is a different story.
Trump vented anger at Mamdani on Truth Social late last month, writing, “Remember, as President he needs money from me to fulfill all his fake communist promises. He won’t get any of it, so what’s the point in voting for him?”
Mamdani has called Trump’s administration “totalitarian” and criticized the president’s mass deportation efforts.
“Donald Trump and his ICE agents are snatching our immigrant neighbors from our city in broad daylight before our eyes,” Mamdani said at a campaign rally on Monday.
In July, President Threatened to arrest Mamdani If he wins the election and follows through on his promise to reject immigration raids in New York City.
Former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo And Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa also responded to how he would respond to Trump’s call if he wins the mayoral race.
Cuomo, who is running as an independent candidate and has had a rocky relationship with the president, said, “I would say to the president in the first conversation, ‘Look, we’ve had a lot of battles. We’ve fought together every day during COVID…I’d like to avoid those.'”
Sliwa said he would negotiate with Trump on New York City infrastructure projects.
Sliwa said, “I have had a love-hate relationship with Donald Trump that goes back over 30 years, but I know one thing… You can be tough, but you can’t be tough if it comes at a cost to people who desperately need federal funds.”
White House Budget Office Director Russell Vought announced earlier this month that nearly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects, specifically the Hudson River Tunnel Project and the Second Avenue Subway Project, were being frozen “to ensure that funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.”
Next month, New Yorkers from the five boroughs will head to the polls to vote for the city’s new mayor.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has run on a platform of affordability with promises of a freeze on fares and free buses.
During the debate, Mamdani said he would freeze rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants and build 200,000 “really affordable homes in the five boroughs over the next 10 years to make sure that tenants, whether rent stabilized or market rate, can actually get more housing such that they don’t have to move out of this city.”
Cuomo has also campaigned on affordability, but has also focused on public safety. He wants to add 5,000 more police officers to the streets of New York City.
As the founder of the community safety group Guardian Angels, Sliwa is also big on law and order. He wants to hire an additional 7,000 police officers. Mamdani says he wants keep the size of the police force the same,
Sliwa said of his vision for the New York City Police Department, “The police will be on the subways, and they will patrol the old-fashioned way where they need to be, going up and down in moving subway cars, where people want to see visual security.”
Cuomo criticized Mamdani’s lack of political experience during the debate. Mamdani has been a member of the New York State Assembly since 2021, representing a district in Queens. Cuomo was governor for nearly 11 years and before that was the Attorney General of New York.
“He has no experience, and this is not a job for someone who has no management experience running 300,000 people, no financial experience running a $115 billion budget,” Cuomo said.
Mamdani is leading in the polls. Recently Quinnipiac University voting Mamdani received 46 percent support from likely voters, Cuomo received 33 percent, and Sliva received 15 percent. Another survey from fox news Mamdani is leading with 47 percent of likely voters and Cuomo is trailing with 29 percent. Sliwa had the support of only 11 percent of voters.
Former Democratic Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, who has endorsed Mamdani, wrote X In response to Thursday night’s debate, “They say @ZohranKMamdani is dreaming and his plans are impossible. Exactly what he said about Pre-K for All… until we got it done.”
Former Republican New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has endorsed Sliva, wrote, “Curtis Sliva is a New Yorker. He knows this city – and its neighborhoods – better than almost any man alive. If New Yorkers pay attention and wake up, they will elect this good man as their next mayor.”