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Candidates for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani Condemning the opponent candidate’s recent comments Andrew Cuomo As “racist” and “disgusting”.
During an interview with conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg on Thursday, former New York Governor Cuomo suggested Mamdani He had no experience governing New York City in a crisis like a terrorist attack like 9/11.
“Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?” Cuomo asked.
“Uh, I could. He’d be cheering,” Rosenberg responded.
“That’s another problem,” Cuomo Then said.
State Assemblyman Mamdani condemned Cuomo’s comments as Islamophobic and racist.
“This is disgusting,” Mamdani Said In an interview with PIX 11 on Thursday. “This is Andrew Cuomo’s last moment in public life and he wants to spend it making racist attacks on the man who would be the first Muslim to lead this city.”
A spokesperson for Cuomo claimed that the comments were about Mamdani’s relationship with leftist Twitch streamer Hassan Pikar, who once said (then immediately apologized for saying) that America “deserved 9/11.” (During a recent debate, Mamdani Picker’s comments are called On 9/11 as “offensive and reprehensible.”)
Following Cuomo’s comments, allies including current New York Governor Kathy Hochul rallied to Mamdani’s defense.
“Time to get out of the gutter,” he wrote On X. “Fearmongering, hate speech and Islamophobia are beneath New York — and everything we stand for as a state.”
While some came to Mamdani’s side, others in New York politics banded together to oppose the democratic socialist campaign.
On Thursday, current New York Mayor Eric Adams, who briefly entered the mayoral race himself before dropping out, endorsed Cuomo, a longtime arch rival, despite Recently the former governor was termed as a “snake and a liar”Man seen on wednesday At the New York Knicks’ opening home game after the final mayoral debate.
Mamdani, a Ugandan-born Indian-American citizen, has faced attacks during the mayoral race that allies view as Islamophobic.
GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York falsely claimed that Mamdani is a “full-blown jihadist who has called for the genocide of the Jews”, while Cuomo’s campaign released on social media and then quickly deleted an AI campaign video interviewing “criminals for Zoharan Mamdani”.
The clip apparently shows the candidate eating rice with his hands, which is common in many non-Western cultures, then being supported by a shopkeeper and a black man dressed in Palestinian garb. Sheet Dupatta.
The Cuomo campaign has said the post was an accidental release of a rejected draft video.
Former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio described the video as “unworthy” of Cuomo’s campaign.
“Any candidate who approves such a racist, hateful ad cannot be allowed to govern,” he said. wrote On X.
Attacks on Mamdani, who scored a shock victory in the Democratic primary long seen as the most competitive part of the New York mayoral race, have often focused on his views about the Israel-Palestine conflict, with critics accusing him of being anti-Semitic.
Mamdani rejects these characterizations.
The candidate, who has received substantial support from various progressive Jewish groups and leaders in the city, has been a vocal critic of the Israeli war effort in Gaza, echoing a wide range of human rights experts. Determined that the conflict amounts to genocideHe has called on both Israel and Hamas to abide by international law and refrain from violence against civilians.
There’s also a Cuomo supporter group. created a mailer Claimed that Mamdani “rejects Jewish rights” and showed an image of Mamdani where his beard looked darker and thicker than in real life, although the group said it had never sent the mock-up.
Others have attacked Mamdani Claim that they have not done enough to condemn a slogan Sometimes used in the pro-Palestinian movement to “globalize the intifada”, a term to describe a series of historical uprisings on behalf of the Palestinian people.
Mamdani has said that he does not personally use the phrase or endorse it, but that his role as mayor is “not to police language.” Mamdani has also called for increased anti-hate crime prevention, including efforts to stem the “crisis of antisemitism”.