Driving the news: On Wednesday, many Democratic lawmakers and officials either denounced Mamdani or notably declined to rally around him. Republicans — including President Trump — crowed about Democrats embracing a democratic socialist who has called for reduced police funding and sided with Palestinians in the Gaza war.
The top two Democratic leaders in Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, both New Yorkers, declined to endorse Mamdani even as they applauded his victory.
New York Rep. Laura Gillen, from Nassau County, called Mamdani the “absolute wrong choice for New York.”
Rep. Tom Suozzi, also from Nassau County, said he had “serious concerns.”
Major Democratic donors — who poured tens of millions into a Super PAC for Cuomo — were having private discussions Wednesday about whether to back an independent run by Cuomo in November’s general election, or rally behind unpopular incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who’s also running as an independent.
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This isn’t relevant at all to what I said.
I’m well aware that this is a primary. Did you even read the article? Liberal smugness is probably going to help in this situation, thanks for the contribution on a subject you clearly know all about.
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My point is that I’ll be shocked if the establishment Dems don’t try and tank his campaign by endorsing Cuomo instead. I’ll be pleasantly surprised if that doesn’t happen.
Seems they’d rather lose to a Republican than win as progressives.
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It seems you’re having a separate conversation with yourself, so I’ll just leave you to it.
Politician can endorse whoever they want. I’m not interested in whatever you think I’m saying.
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Hey guy. The other person’s point is that the Democratic establishment is going to abandon the “blue no matter who” thing to push Cuomo or Adams rather than the official blue candidate.
Gotcha. That was never the DNC’s saying. That’s where the confusion happened. It’s an old “once every four years” liberal rally cry for the barely engaged voter, that was re-popularized to combat Trump after Bernie lost the primary in 2016.
It’s embarrassing how horrifically you have misread this comment thread.
You’re being antagonistic with someone who agrees with you.
Their point is that vote blue no matter who is an empty slogan that is only applied when the centrist is the blue candidate. Now that a socialist is the candidate, the Democratic Party will abandon the vote blue no matter who logic. Because it was always just a pretext to force the left into supporting neoliberals, it was never actually about actual party unity
It’s probably more effective to yell at someone who is going to read it.
I’m sorry. I misunderstood your comment as the quote was historically used by voters, not the DNC. I understand what you were getting at now. Sorry for being so dense.