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On Thursday, Dan Mannarino speaks with the New York City Council Chair of the Committee on Housing and Buildings, Pierina Sanchez, about the board governing New York City's rent-stabilized units voting to lower its proposal for rent increases on two-year leases.
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PIX on Politics Daily: Charter reforms on NYC ballot
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- Boston Globe
America, meet the Trump-Mamdani voter
'Trump and Zohran specifically? Gosh, I can't think of a specific person,' says Alexa Avilés, a New York City Council member from Brooklyn, who is, like Mamdani, a democratic socialist. 'I haven't seen any data on that,' says Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist and former aide to Mamdani opponent Andrew M. Cuomo who's become a critic of the former governor. 'I do not believe that the MAGAs in this borough flipped to Zohran,' says Donovan Richards Jr., the Queens borough president. 'I have not met a hardcore Trump supporter who is a hardcore Mamdani supporter,' says Shahana Hanif, a Democrat representing Brooklyn on the New York City Council. Advertisement Well, so much for that. Except… Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up 'They're everywhere,' says Farihah Akhtar, senior lead organizer with the group CAAAV Voice, which primarily organizes working-class Asian New Yorkers in places like Chinatown and Astoria. Nowhere or everywhere — which is it, New York? The answer could be important. It might reveal where, and how, the ends of the current political spectrum can double back on each other. And talking to voters who see something appealing in both Trump and Mamdani — despite the fact that their policy ideas, ideological allies and general visions of how government should operate could not be more different — could produce insights into how candidates might make themselves audible to potential supporters on the opposite side of America's vast political divide. Advertisement So let's see if we can't figure this out. People wait in line to enter Donald Trump's rally at New York's Madison Square Garden last October. Victor J. Blue/Victor J. Blue For The Washington Post A quick refresher: A few days after Trump's election, Mamdani — a 33-year-old New York State Assembly member from Astoria who was then a little-known candidate for mayor — had visited areas that shifted toward the now-president with a camera and microphone to talk to Trump supporters there about why they voted the way they did. In June, Mamdani shocked many observers by trouncing Cuomo and other opponents in the city's Democratic primary, making him the front-runner to lead the largest city in the United States. The apparent leftward, antiestablishment swing of New York's Democratic voters was especially interesting, given that Democrats lost support there in November compared with 2020, and pockets of the city moved toward Trump. Mamdani has drawn a connection between Trump's success and that of his own campaign. 'Brighton Beach went for Trump by 44 points. Last week, we won it by 16,' the candidate said in a video posted to his social media after his victory. 'College Point was a plus-11 Trump neighborhood. We took it by eight points.' And an analysis by the news publication Gothamist found that many of the election districts that went for both Trump in 2024 and Mamdani in 2025 clustered in working-class, immigrant neighborhoods like Corona and Flushing. This doesn't necessarily mean that lots of New Yorkers voted for both men. Last November's general election was open to all registered voters, while the June primary was a local contest open only to registered Democrats. So looking at Trump's numbers and Mamdani's is a bit like comparing a Big Apple and a smaller apple. Advertisement 'I'm sure he won a couple Democrats who voted for Trump,' says Michael Lange, a writer who's working on a book about the race, 'but it's just that the Trump vote share overwhelmingly comes from independents or Republicans, or Democrats who never vote in primaries. There probably weren't like, a ton.' As for our search, he had an idea. 'Get that gentleman from the Bronx.' Related : That gentleman from the Bronx is Yahay Obeid, an immigrant from Yemen and an air traffic control supervisor at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Obeid, a leader in the Yemeni American community, voted for both Trump and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last election - and then talked to multiple reporters about it. We reached Obeid by phone when he was at Home Depot, buying supplies for an upcoming move to Morris Park. As it turned out, Obeid did not vote for Mamdani — but only because a family emergency pulled him away on the day of the election, he said. But he does like Mamdani, and endorsed him on social media after hosting him at a candidate forum in the Bronx in May. People in his community are excited about a Muslim as New York's possible next mayor, he said. And although Obeid is more pro-police than he believes Mamdani is, he likes the way the Assembly member has talked about the breach between the rich and regular, working people like him. The billionaires earn a lot, and pay relatively little tax, he says. 'Is that fair? I don't think it's fair.' And not for nothing: He can't stand Cuomo. 'Everything is about him and his family,' Obeid said of the former governor, who has since said he will run against Mamdani as an independent. 'To the point where he renamed the Tappan Zee Bridge, right? Renamed it under his father's name, Mario Cuomo. Really? Like, the Tappan people, the natives of that land — the bridge was named after them. You take that away from them and you name it after your freaking dad. Who the hell are you to name that after your dad?' Advertisement His feelings toward Trump, who is not exactly shy about putting his family name on things, are warmer. Back in 2016, Obeid cast a losing vote for Hillary Clinton. 'And Trump went into office, and then just CNN was against him, everyone was against him,' he says. Obeid started paying attention and found that he agreed with the president's foreign policy toward Yemen, his handling of the economy, his efforts to keep houses of worship open during the days of covid lockdown. He became a fan and voted for Trump in the next two elections. What do Trump and Mamdani have in common, in Obeid's mind? A lack of complacency, a quality he associates with 'establishment' Democrats. He has no doubt that both men work '20 hours a day, every day, seven days a week,' for their people. When we asked Obeid if he could introduce us to any other Trump-Mamdani supporters, he put us in touch with Juan de la Cruz, a 32-year-old client account executive for Verizon. De la Cruz used to be a Democrat. But a few years ago, he told us, he was on his way back from getting a haircut when he was mugged by two men on motorcycles who took his jewelry. He says he recognized a Venezuelan flag patch on one of their leather jackets. The experience made him switch parties, thinking Trump's plans to seal the border would make the country safer. Last year he ran (unsuccessfully) for the State Assembly to represent Throggs Neck, in the Bronx, as a Republican. Related : Advertisement He also voted for Trump. But de la Cruz says he's been feeling unsettled by how the president is treating legal immigrants. It didn't seem fair to him that permanent residents (like the activist Mahmoud Khalil) could be targeted for saying they support Palestinians, many of whom own businesses where he lives. He thought those who were here illegally should get deported, but with due process. 'I'm like, 'Oh, my God, what have I done?'' he says now. And yet he stands by his vote for Trump: 'I did what I thought was right.' Since he's now a Republican, de la Cruz wasn't eligible to vote in the mayoral primary. But he says he's planning to vote for Mamdani in November because of the mayoral candidate's focus on the cost of living. 'I make over six figures, but sometimes I feel that money, sometimes it's not enough,' he says. He was struck by one of Mamdani's campaign refrains, which de la Cruz now paraphrased: 'Every politician, they all say that New York is the best city in the world. But what's the best city if people can't afford to live in it?' Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, at a labor union rally in Manhattan on July 2. What do Trump and Mamdani have in common? According to one vote, a lack of complacency, a quality that is associated with 'establishment' Democrats. HIROKO MASUIKE/NYT Obeid and de la Cruz are relatively outspoken. We were curious about the less-public New York residents who voted for Trump and who also support Mamdani. So we asked for help from some local political groups that do work in those neighborhoods where both Trump and Mamdani got a lot of votes. Advertisement One was CAAAV Voice, the organization focused on Asian American voters, which had contacted an estimated 40,000 in their effort to get out the vote for Mamdani. 'Every day that we were on the phones and doors, we would meet people who had voted for Trump,' Akhtar, the CAAAV Voice organizer, assured us. 'Some of them, of their own admission, named regret and disappointment with what they're seeing now.' Could she introduce us to one? We were soon making the acquaintance, via Zoom, of Abdur Rahman, a 69-year-old retiree living in Woodside, Queens. Rahman, who immigrated from Bangladesh, agreed to talk to us via Zoom from CAAAV Voice's office in Astoria, with Akhtar and another organization member interpreting. Now a naturalized citizen, Rahman believes America should be first, and that leaders should take care of their constituents first. 'There isn't really peace in America, and we have to think about ourselves first before we think about anywhere else,' he said via interpreter. Trump's actions on immigration have been more extreme than Rahman had expected when he voted for him last year. He knew that the president would target undocumented immigrants for deportation and tighten the border, but he thought enforcement would be limited to criminals. But now many people who came here from other countries seeking asylum are being told to leave. 'They're not safe here and they're not safe there. So what are these people supposed to do?' Related : The administration's aggressive approach has made him question the future of the Republican Party, and this year he canvassed with CAAAV Voice for Mamdani. He liked what the candidate was saying about making things more affordable. Like Obeid and de la Cruz, he didn't cast a vote for Mamdani last month. Rahman has been a Republican since coming to the United States in 1991. Card-carrying, literally: From his pocket he produces a card with an eagle insignia and the logo of the Republican National Committee that reads 'LIFE MEMBER.' And yet he is in favor of Mamdani. A Republican backing a democratic socialist. How to square this circle? 'Populism is not an ideology, it's an emotion,' says Mario Nicoletto, campaigns committee chairman for the New York Young Republican Club. 'People are pissed off and they're upset about the status quo and how the elites have failed the younger generation — or I'd argue, all generations of the country.' 'What it underscores is that voters don't necessarily judge everything on a left-to-right axis all the time,' says Smith, the Democratic strategist. 'And that when we just view them as simple creatures like that, we're missing something important.' 'People are rejecting the old and just wanting something different and new, wanting a message that really resonates with them, that they see themselves in,' says Avilés, the council member from Brooklyn. It seems as if the Trump-Mamdani voter will exist come the general. But does such a person already exist? Someone who's already cast a ballot for both? She does, and she's in Brooklyn. People vote at a polling location at Louis D. Brandeis High School on the mayoral primary election day in the Manhattan. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Momena Begum is a 47-year-old naturalized citizen from Bangladesh who works in home health care. She's a Democrat, and back in 2020 she saw in Biden a politician who could end the chaos of the first Trump era and nurse the country back to stability. She wanted him to deliver on his promise to cancel student debt, something the Biden administration tried to do before meeting resistance in the courts. Then came the attack by Hamas on Israel, and Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Begum felt that Bangladeshis had a certain kinship with Palestinians. After over a year of fighting, she was fed up with Biden for not bringing an end to the war, so she, like many of her fellow Muslims, went for the alternative. The Muslim community voted for Trump to stop the war in Gaza, Begum said through an interpreter provided by DRUM Beats, a political group focused on working-class South Asian and Indo-Caribbean communities in New York. That's our only hope, she thought at the time. Begum is a member of DRUM Beats, which supported Mamdani, and she got to see him speak. The mayor of New York may not have the power to stop the war, but Begum liked that Mamdani supports the Palestinian community. And he promised to make some things better at home: child care for working mothers like her, free buses and a rent freeze. On the night of the primary, as Cuomo conceded, Mamdani thanked the Bangladeshi aunties for supporting his campaign. 'A different kind of Democrat,' Begum thought. And the Trump-Mamdani supporters are a different kind of constituent. Anjuman Ali contributed to this article.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
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‘I'm in this through the end': Adams on Cuomo's independent bid
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Mayor Eric Adams has no plans to back down from his reelection campaign after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he's running as an independent in the New York City mayoral race. 'I'm in this through the end,' Adams said during an interview with PIX11 News anchor Dan Mannarino. More Local News Cuomo made the announcement following his loss to Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in the June Democratic mayoral primary. He suggested in his announcement that the independent candidates and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa run a poll in September to determine who among them should challenge Mamdani in the November election. 'No, he won't,' Adams said about Cuomo possibly dropping out of the race if he doesn't rank first in the poll. 'Listen, you got to know Andrew… this is all Andrew's plot from the beginning.' Adams criticized Cuomo for bail reform, cutting down on psychiatric beds in hospitals and lenient cannabis law. More: Latest News from Around the Tri-State 'I've never stepped down and moved away from my job,' Adams said. 'He stepped down from his job as governor. New York City is not a consolation prize.' Watch the full interview in the video player above. Erin Pflaumer is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered both local and national news since 2018. She joined PIX11 in 2023. See more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
