Yeah, cause if one thing turns a population on their government it’s attacking the country and doing collateral damage on civilians. That definitely won’t unite the people on the side of the government against a common foreign enemy.

I mean they have been attempting to with ramping up the “Iran is just a week away from nukes.” that they’ve been hitting for so many years now.

Yeah that’s fair, I think the main thing you can hope for is that a lot of Cuomo’s support comes just from people who pick him just because they recognize him, which means they’re probably not high propensity voters. Meanwhile a lot of Mamdani’s support is grassroots which means hopefully a lot of his supporters are high propensity voters.

Actually there are more polls coming out that have Mamdani ahead now, still extremely close but I wouldn’t call it a guaranteed win for Cuomo. Especially since we’re just starting to see the ripple effects from the Mayoral debate and AOC’s endorsement.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/zohran-mamdani-climbs-to-top-of-poll-leading-andrew-cuomo-00401594

I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn’t get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.