Andrew Cuomo suggested Thursday that his main rival in the race for New York City mayor would cheer if the 9/11 attacks happened again — a serious escalation in the war of words between the former governor and front-runner Zohran Mamdani.
Cuomo was speaking on a conservative-leaning radio show when he made the argument that Mamdani lacked the experience to lead the city if another terrorist attack happened.
His suggestion that Mamdani would welcome an attack on the city marked a new level of acrimony between the two that drew immediate condemnation from the democratic socialist, who would be the first Muslim mayor if elected on Nov. 4.
“This is disgusting,” Mamdani said during a sitdown with PIX 11. “This is Andrew Cuomo’s final moments in public life and he’s choosing to spend them making racist attacks on the person who would be the first Muslim to lead this city.” “There are more than 1 million Muslims who live in New York City, and to have our faith be smeared and slandered by someone who at one point was considered a leader in the Democratic Party showcases the fact that bigotry and racism is not exclusively a Republican problem. It is also a problem within our own party,” Mamdani said. “It is time that we turned the page on Andrew Cuomo and on those that would tolerate this rhetoric from him.”
In the race for mayor of the New York City, the candidates are Democrat Zohran Mamdani (who is from the party's left wing and self describes as a "democratic socialist") Democrat running as independent former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, former leader of Guardian Angels.
Cuomo recently tried to get support among conservative New Yorkers and urged Sliwa to drop out of the race in order not to become a spoiler.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/23/andrew-cuomo-suggests-mamdani-would-cheer-future-terror-attack-00620620
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