Zohran Mamdani Just Obliterated Andrew Cuomo's Election Announcement With One Tweet
He surprised everyone with that upset victory over former-governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary.
Well, Cuomo isn't going away.
People weren't having it...
"From a marketing perspective, everything about this is brutal," one person commented.
Another person said, "This is like when you dump a guy and he still thinks he has a chance with you."
And then a bunch of people pointed out the "In it to win it" was categorically false.
"You were already in it...and lost it."
But one reply has more engagement than all of them, like double Cuomo's original post, and that's from Mamdani himself.
Mamdani just replied with this:
It's a link to his fundraising page.
The ratio on this one is pretty massive.
It's being called a "thing of beauty."
It's being called "nasssssty."
And this person said, "You couldn't even win your own tweet my dude."
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