Donald Trump has offered Eric Adams a job in his administration, apparently to convince him to drop out of New York’s mayoral race. It’s now official and out in the open: Andrew Cuomo is allying with Trump to beat Zohran Mamdani.

Donald Trump has offered Eric Adams a job in his administration, apparently to convince him to drop out of New York’s mayoral race. It’s now official and out in the open: Andrew Cuomo is allying with Trump to beat Zohran Mamdani.

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      4 days ago

      He is running as independent, because he lost in primaries and is double dipping.

      He supposedly identified himself as a Democrat but now it is clear that it was for the convenience.

      I’m wondering if there will be Democrats that would vote on him after being backed by trump?

      Didn’t he also implicated Cuomo in Maxwell’s interview?

        • floofloof@lemmy.ca
          124·
          4 days ago

          Your objection to the comment was that Cuomo is not running as a Democrat. The comment didn’t say he was. It made a point about liberals, which is relevant if Cuomo is a liberal. You replied that he’s not a Democrat, but that’s not relevant since he is still a political liberal. So it’s not just an “adjective game”. It’s acknowledging that liberalism is a political ideology rather than a political party, and that the problems of liberalism extend beyond registered Democrats. It’s important globally too: liberalism is problematic everywhere, whereas the Democratic Party exists only in the USA. Whatever a politician’s party, if they subscribe to liberalism their politics are going to problematic in the ways liberalism always is.

          From that Wikipedia link:

          Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law. Liberals espouse various and sometimes conflicting views depending on their understanding of these principles but generally support private property, market economies, individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), liberal democracy, secularism, rule of law, economic and political freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion. Liberalism is frequently cited as the dominant ideology of modern history.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      51·
      3 days ago

      Why aren’t any gogh profile Democrats condemning him for running as an independent, subverting the Democratic primary that was held? Why are no high profile Democrats endorsing the Progressive winner of the Democratic Primary in the largest coty on the country? Why does “Vote Blue No Matter Who™” only apply to progressives when their candidate loses, and not centrist Dems when their candidate loses?