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Andrew Cuomo says he ‘will move to Florida’ if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor (nypost.com)

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday he’ll pack his bags and flee to Florida if he loses the NYC mayoral race to socialist Zohran Mamdani.

“It’s all or nothing. We either win or even I will move to Florida. God forbid!” Cuomo told business leaders and other honchos at a Hamptons breakfast hosted by supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis.

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[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

So what happens if incumbent Mayor Eric Adams is ahead in the polls and is a stronger candidate?

"I don't want to be part of a suicide mission," Cuomo said. "If Adams is a stronger candidate, I'm not going to be a spoiler and I'll defer. I'm not going to be a reason that this assemblyman became mayor of the city of New York."

So if Cuomo is ahead of Adams, will he ask Adams not to go on that "suicide mission?"

"I think everybody will say that to Eric Adams, because everybody is going to make your point, which is look at the math, right? You divide up the vote, you're just making Mamdani the candidate and the mayor," Cuomo said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/andrew-cuomo-interview/

Luckily Adams doesn't seem interested.

"We should never forget that these same polls had Andrew up 32 points, and he lost embarrassingly by 12 points. This is a campaign about results, not resumes. And on that, Mayor Adams wins," Adams spokesperson Todd Shapiro said.