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The White House is pushing President TrumpThe New York affair is an attack on the city’s leading mayoral candidate, the Democrat Zohran MamdaniReferring to the Big Apple as the president’s “home”, even though he has long since changed his primary residence to Florida.
“The president is a New Yorker,” press secretary Carolyn Levitt told reporters Tuesday. “He loves New York. It’s his home. He talks about it all the time. He’s made his views on this election very clear.”
The President, who maintains a home in Manhattan, Changed his primary residence to Florida in 2019. he has voted there many timesPractices that include using early and mail-in voting attacks regularlyWhich also includes a social media post today.
The president has made a dozen visits to his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in Palm Beach since taking office. according to Palm Beach Daily News,
President Trump has repeatedly attacked MamdaniA democratic socialist, and warned that he would try to block federal funding if a Democrat was elected. Trump also reluctantly endorsed his old rival, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is running against Mamdani.
“If Communist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the election for Mayor of New York City, it is extremely unlikely that I will contribute federal funds other than the minimum amount required for my beloved first home, because as a Communist, I have zero chance of success or even survival in this once great city!” Trump wrote on Truth Social yesterday. “It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send good money after bad as president.”
(chairman no power Unilaterally withholding funds approved by Congress.)
Speaking at a press conference on TuesdayMamdani vowed that he would not be “afraid” of Trump and would use “every single tool” to secure the city’s federal funding.
Mamdani said, “I will treat his threats as they deserve to be treated, which are the words of a president and not necessarily the law of the land.” “And often we treat anything he says as if it’s already law, depending on who said it.”
During his remarks, Mamdani was asked about a series of unfounded bomb threats that led to the temporary closure of polling places in New Jersey caution Criticized the president’s “general approach” of attempting to “attack our democracy” and “intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to suppress the voices of Americans across this country.”
Conservative commentators emphasized a comments clipWhich appeared to be edited as evidence that Mamdani was blaming Trump himself for the bomb threats.
Leavitt said during his briefing that any attempt to link Trump and the threats was “completely irresponsible” and “based on zero evidence.”
Independent Mamdani Campaign has been contacted for clarification.