Andrew Cuomo
A recent Marist College poll had better numbers for Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee and frontrunner, who has a history of anti-Israel statements.
Supporters of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race,” the Suffolk University Political Research Center wrote Monday.
The former New York governor asked Mamdani why he supports BDS against Israel but not Uganda.
“I’m sorry that we have to feel isolated in our own city,” the former governor and mayoral candidate said.
“The overwhelming majority of Sliwa supporters would not touch Andrew Cuomo with a 10-foot pole,” the Sliwa campaign told JNS.
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, told the frontrunner that “Jews don’t trust that you are going to be there for them when they are the victims of antisemitic attacks.”
Even after many Jews shifted support to Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York, after current Mayor Eric Adams dropped out, the 33-year-old state assemblyman leads the field.
“Let’s be clear: Calls to ‘globalize the intifada’ are not abstract slogans—they are calls for violence against Jews,” said the former New York governor and current mayoral candidate.
The former New York governor said that his decisions to lockdown yeshivas and limit prayer gatherings during the pandemic “caused pain in the Jewish community.”
“Any congregation that will accept Zohran Mamdani over Yom Kippur is not a Jewish congregation,” Liel Leibovitz, editor-at-large of “Tablet” magazine, told JNS.
“I pledge to redouble my efforts to lead the fight against antisemitism in every corner of New York City,” the former governor stated.
Cuomo has a “more than 50 percent chance” of winning the city’s November mayoral race in a head–to-head race with front-runner Zohran Mamdani, said the U.S. hedge-fund billionaire.
