Socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani introduced his marketing campaign to frontrunner Andrew Cuomo’s entrance door Friday morning — daring the previous governor to hitch him and face the press in a candid dialog.
“When are you going to search out your backbone? When are you going to really reply the questions that you simply’ve been evading? And when are you going to face up for New Yorkers?” stated the Queens assemblyman exterior of Cuomo’s luxurious midtown residence constructing.
The lefty lawmaker — whose momentum-gaining marketing campaign raised over $845,000 within the final two months and who may very well be eligible for $4.3 million in public matching funds — boasted about his spectacular grassroots assist from Cuomo’s doorstep.
“We’ve not solely created the most important small following base of any marketing campaign on this race, we’ve not solely had hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers view our movies on social media. We’ve additionally assembled a single largest area workforce that we’ve ever seen in a mayoral race, and we knocked on greater than 100,000 doorways up to now with greater than 7,000 New Yorkers volunteering with our marketing campaign, and we’re seeing averages of about 100 New Yorkers signing on each 24 hours,” he crowed.
Cuomo’s marketing campaign raised $1.5 million from greater than 2,800 donors within the 13 days for the reason that three-term Democratic governor entered the first race on March 1st. He additionally expects to obtain matching funds.
The proudly socialist Mamdani slammed for reportedly receiving greater than $120,000 in donations from registered Republicans.
“This can be a governor who now decries the state of the MTA when he is similar governor who stole a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from it and even to subsidize upstate ski resorts that have been having a troublesome winter,” stated Mamdani.
“A governor who pretends he may stand as much as President Trump’s chopping of Medicaid when he did the identical issues because the governor of this state,” he stated.
At the very least 40 GOP-affiliated donors have contributed, together with President Trump’s former spokesperson Anthony Scaramucci and ex-Lengthy Island sanitation boss, Joseph Rutigliano, who was indicted over alleged ties to the Genovese crime household, Politico reported.
“What New York Metropolis deserves is a pacesetter that’s prepared to not solely reply any questions, however to be clear and concise in our opposition to a Trump administration that’s put in New Yorkers firmly inside their crosshairs,” Mamdani stated.
“All whereas Andrew Cuomo is just too busy begging for donations in boardrooms from registered Republicans which have now funded greater than $120,000 of his marketing campaign,” he quipped.
A Cuomo spokesperson identified that Cuomo has executed a wide range of one-on-one TV interviews, has taken questions from reporters at varied marketing campaign occasions and sat down with the Submit editorial board earlier this week.
The rep additionally identified that Cuomo has obtained endorsements from a various group that features outstanding New York Democrats and labor unions.
“New York Metropolis is in disaster — a disaster of affordability, of high quality of life and of management, and Governor Cuomo alone has a monitor document of a long time as a confirmed chief who can get the job executed,” Cuomo spokesperson Jason Elan stated in an announcement.
“Not like everybody else, Governor Cuomo is working a proactive, constructive, subject primarily based marketing campaign and spending his days assembly with voters to listen to straight from them on their considerations and share his plans to make our metropolis safer and inexpensive,” he stated. “We’ve been overwhelmed by the breath of assist we’ve obtained from women and men of the labor motion, elected officers and get together leaders throughout all 5 boroughs and the practically three-thousand donors who contributed to our marketing campaign in simply two weeks. There are critical occasions that require a critical chief, not these trafficking in cherry picked gutter ways for foolish press hits.”
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