Last week, several outlets reported that the Trump administration has been working behind the scenes to clear the field for Cuomo by offering administration posts to other mayoral candidates, including Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, and Republican contender Curtis Sliwa in exchange for them dropping out of the race.

Cuomo’s identity as Trump’s horse has ratcheted up the pressure for top Democratic leaders—namely the Empire state duo of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—to throw their weight behind Mamdani. But with the election now less than two months away, they have still refused to budge, to the increasing frustration of the party’s base and its progressive leaders.

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    4 days ago

    The controlled opposition is playing it a little too clearly these days, but amazingly I still see tons of people insisting this is not what’s going on

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        3 days ago

        Yeah for sure the IQ distribution is about the same on both sides. It’s just that the stupid reasoning of half of them just so happened to land them at the right conclusions. I try to never forget this