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Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Andrew Cuomo has a target on his back as NYC's crowded mayoral field prepares to gang up on the front-runner at first Dem debate
Democratic mayoral candidates are expected to pounce on ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo during Wednesday night's hotly anticipated debate — as they aim to make more of a name for themselves by targeting the front-runner. But the crowded field of low-polling Dems will have to walk a political tightrope — attempting to sling mud at the ex-governor while remaining viable in voters' eyes, experts told The Post. 'If people go out there and fire away at the front-runner, it will turn people off,' said political strategist and lobbyist Yvette Buckner. 'They have to find something that sticks, that people will remember them by.' The first mayoral primary debate — co-hosted by WNBC and Politico and airing live starting at 7 p.m. — will mark Cuomo's first time sharing the stage with the eight other candidates vying for the party's nomination. Cuomo, who had locked up his front-runner status even before he formally joined the race March 2, is set to be in candidates' crosshairs after his monthslong 'Rose Garden campaign' shying away from public grilling. Political operatives said the bar is set quite low for Cuomo, with the ex-gov just needing to calmly bat away or counter the attacks to come out on top. But all eyes will be on the surging socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani to see if the can keep his momentum going. The relatively unknown state assemblyman from Queens jumped from single digits to a close second place in the polls, behind Cuomo. The rest of the hopefuls — City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Comptroller Brad Lander, ex-Comptroller Scott Stringer, the Rev. Michael Blake, former hedge funder Whitney Tilson, and state Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos — will have to capitalize on their time on stage to make a mark with voters. 'This is the time where the most eyes are going to be on the candidates,' Buckner said of the exposure the debate will grant the pack of candidates. 'People are going to be looking for the candidates who have bold, thoughtful ideas that are distilled into bite-sized pitches that people can digest.' The debate will not include incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who will be running as an independent in the general election in November. A second debate is set for June 12 that will feature the top-polling Democrats, leaving Ramos and Blake off the dais. The primary is set for June 24, with early voting June 14 to 22.
New York Post
a day ago
- General
- New York Post
Andrew Cuomo has a target on his back as NYC's crowded mayoral field prepares to gang up on the frontrunner at first Dem debate
Democratic mayoral candidates are expected to pounce on ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo during Wednesday night's hotly-anticipated debate — as they aim to make more of a name for themselves by targeting the frontrunner. But the crowded field of low-polling Dems will have to walk a political tightrope — attempting to sling mud at the ex-governor while remaining viable in voters' eyes, experts told The Post. 'If people go out there and fire away at the frontrunner, it will turn people off,' said political strategist and lobbyist Yvette Buckner. 4 Former New York Governor and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo speaks at SEIU in midtown Manhattan as he gains the endorsement of RWDSU, ATU and UFCW unions for his mayoral bid. Stephen Yang 'They have to find something that sticks, that people will remember them by.' The first mayoral primary debate — co-hosted by WNBC and Politico and airing live starting at 7 p.m. — will mark Cuomo's first time sharing the stage with the eight other candidates vying for the party's nomination. Cuomo, who had locked up his frontrunner status even before he formally joined the race March 2, is set to be in candidates' crosshairs after his monthslong 'Rose Garden campaign' shying away from public grilling. Political operatives said the bar is set quite low for Cuomo, with the ex-gov just needing to calmly bat away or counter the attacks and he'll come out on top. 4 Zorhan Mamdani, New York City mayoral candidate, accepts the New York Working Families Party's (NYWFP) number one choice for mayor of New York City on May 31, 2025 in Brooklyn, New York. Michael Nigro But all eyes will be on the surging socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani to see if the can keep his momentum going. The relatively unknown state Assemblyman from Queens jumped from single digits to a close second place in the polls, behind Cuomo. The rest of the hopefuls — City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Comptroller Brad Lander, ex-Comptroller Scott Stringer, the Rev. Michael Blake, former hedge funder Whitney Tilson, and state Sens. Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos — will have to capitalize on their time on stage to make a mark with voters. 4 Democratic New York mayoral candidates (left to right) Michael Blake, Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander attend the Pride Kick Off Mayoral Forum in New York City on May 31, 2025. Leonardo Munoz 'This is the time where the most eyes are going to be on the candidates,' Buckner said of the exposure the debate will grant the pack of candidates. 'People are going to be looking for the candidates who have bold, thoughtful ideas that are distilled into bite-sized pitches that people can digest.' The debate will not include incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who will be running as an independent in the general election in November. 4 Mayoral hopeful Zellnor Myrie stops by the NY Post. Matthew McDermott A second debate is set for June 12 that will feature the top polling Democrats, leaving Ramos and Blake off the dais. The primary is set for June 24, with early voting on June 14-22.
Irish Examiner
3 days ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Jim Power: Ireland must diversify as 'Taco' brings too much uncertainty
We always suspected that the second Trump presidency would be volatile, uncertain, and chaotic, but few would have guessed just how chaotic it would turn out to be, and unfortunately there is still a long way to go. For business, for consumers, and for virtually every government around the globe, the result is huge uncertainty, and this does not bode well for future economic activity or political stability. At the weekend, we had the spectacle of Trump announcing a 50% tariff on all imports from the EU effective from June 1, but then he rowed back a couple of days later following a fruitful telephone conversation with Ursula von der Leyen. There have been close to 60 specific tariff announcements from Trump, and the saga runs on. Strange times indeed. Last Wednesday, the US Court of International Trade ruled that that Trump had wrongly used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap tariffs on almost all of the US trading partners. Then a federal appeals court temporarily reinstated many of the tariffs. This short-term relief will now allow Trump's appeal process to proceed. Meanwhile, the EU and China and many others will engage in negotiations with the administration in an effort to avoid a cliff edge situation in early July. How can any sort of longer-term or indeed short-term planning proceed in an environment of such uncertainty? Personally, if I were a business contemplating an investment project or hiring more labour, I would put everything on hold, because one has no idea what type of conditions will prevail in weeks or months down the road. One benign interpretation is that the by-now well-flogged term, 'Taco' president – an acronym standing for Trump Always Chickens Out - will win the day. This term coined by the Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong is a notion that the markets and others are latching on to. Taco is certainly influencing market behaviour. Despite the turmoil and uncertainty, equity markets ended May in decent positive territory. The S&P 500 is back at levels last seen in February, before the Rose Garden 'Independence Day' fiasco on April 2. If the markets believed that Trump will ultimately deliver on everything he promised or threatened, markets should be deep in the red at this stage. If delivered, the Rose Garden reciprocal tariffs would take US tariffs back to levels last seen when the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was implemented. This tariff act was designed to protect American farmers and businesses from foreign competition, but it ultimately prolonged and deepened the great depression which wiped out the 1930s. If the Rose Garden reciprocal tariffs were to materialise, the economic impact would be similar, but this possibility is not being considered by the markets. Indeed, the US consumer confidence reading from the Conference Board over the past week showed the strongest monthly rebound in four years, from a five-year low. Consumers seem to believe that Trump will chicken out. For all of our sakes, one hopes this proves prescient. Apart from the threatened tariff, many of Trump's other policies should give deep cause for concern. The 'big beautiful tax bill' that Trump is pushing through Congress would add significantly to US debt levels and widen inequality. The wild west he is trying to create in the crypto world, the world of AI, and his loose regulatory approach to the banking system should all give cause for deep concern. His two sons at a crypto conference in Las Vegas expressed a heartfelt desire to use crypto to wipe out the US banking system. On and on it goes, and where it ends, nobody knows. Here in Ireland the threats from all of these developments are very real, but unfortunately much is outside of our control. I have spoken many times of the necessity to diversify our external trade relations, and it is good to see Government pushing hard to ratify the Canadian trade agreement, CETA; our FDI exposures; and build up the indigenous SME-dominated economy. To me, one of the most significant and related events over the past week was the stark warning from Uisce Éireann about the dire need for heavy investment to facilitate the delivery of Government housing targets. Hopefully, Government will now step up to the plate and do what is necessary to begin the process of addressing the housing crisis in a meaningful way.
Economic Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
This TACO gives Trump indigestion, so watch out
Donald Trump relished his favorite versions of tacos during his first presidential term. 'The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill,' he tweeted in early 2016, sharing a photo of himself chowing down on a large serving at his desk. 'I love Hispanics!' These days, tacos aren't Trump's thing. More precisely, the version cooked up by a Financial Times columnist, Robert Armstrong, isn't his thing. Armstrong, noting that Trump has repeatedly backed away from some of his fiercest tariff threats, dubbed this phenomenon 'TACO' — Trump Always Chickens Out. TACO-savvy traders were making money embracing that reality, Armstrong observed. It's not a reality Trump is ready to embrace himself, though. 'That's a nasty question,' he told a reporter who asked about the TACO moniker at a White House press briefing on Wednesday. 'Don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question. … To me, that's the nastiest question.'Trump, who fashions himself a brilliant dealmaker and strategist despite ample evidence to the contrary, is, of course, always going to bristle at the notion that he is a chicken — and a predictable one at that. He also routinely peddles himself as an infallible winner, so the nastiest question is also one that speculates about whether he's mired in a losing streak. His tariff policy, unleashed on allies and competitors alike, has been rolled out on a seesaw and riddled with economically damaging will never acknowledge any of that, which is to be expected. But it also may be wise to consider this TACO-fueled moment as something other than a lighthearted interlude in an otherwise tragicomic policy miasma. Trump protects and prioritizes how his various audiences perceive him. A Trump eager to prove he's not a chicken is a Trump willing to inflict economic, social or political damage in the service of his ego and self-image (also a recurring feature of his earlier but less consequential passage as a real estate developer and casino operator). Dangers once told me that he admired John Gotti, the notorious mobster, because Gotti never backed down, never flinched or wept in a courtroom, and gave everyone who opposed him the evil eye. That's how Trump sees himself. Anything but a that Trump campaigned on imposing suffocating tariffs on countries such as China, which he described as a predator fleecing US manufacturers and workers. He has had much the same to say of indispensable trading partners like Canada and Mexico, which have jointly created vast storehouses of economic value for themselves and the US. Determined to keep a campaign promise that endeared him to his political base, he offered the world a Rose Garden tariffs spectacle in April that caused financial markets to chastened, Trump then set about offering carve-outs to various industries and playing down the scale of the tariffs he was considering. He eagerly courted countries to work out deals with him. Going too far down that path, though, would have been an obvious reversal of his reckless campaign pledges, and that might have cost him come next year's midterm elections. So he took to being a human yo-yo when discussing his tariff intentions; sometimes tough, sometimes willing to bend, but always up-and-down and always unpredictable (and uncertainty, mind you, can readily morph into chaos).A helpful escape from his predicament landed in Trump's lap on Thursday, when the US Court of International Trade ruled that he lacked the legal authority to unilaterally impose tariffs under the presidency's emergency powers provision. Trump could have acquiesced, rolled his tariff regime back into the Pandora's box from which it sprang and then blamed it all on the courts. The Deep State undermined my brave tariffs stance, he could have told his voters, not me. But I tried to keep my promises to you. I really may have had fresh images of cowardly fowl dancing in his head when he ignored that opportunity, though he has had decades of institutional defiance that preceded the clucking. Regardless, he is now certainly determined to prove he's not a chicken. His administration successfully appealed the trade ruling to a higher court on Thursday and won a temporary reprieve from its restrictions. While the US Court of Appeals provided only a stay and could ultimately affirm the trade court's ruling, the White House celebrated. It trotted out trade hardliner and former prison inmate Peter Navarro to take a victory lap on Trump's behalf on tariff dispute is likely to find its way to the Supreme Court, where nine justices will decide, yet again, what the proper powers of the presidency are in an era when the Oval Office's current occupant believes they are limitless. My colleagues Noah Feldman and Matt Levine have written thoughtful, and differing, analyses of the legal and constitutional principles being tested around the tariff the Supreme Court might land amid all of this is unlikely to end the mess, however. The White House said Trump would find other ways to impose trading levies if the courts stop him this time around. And he's newly incentivized to prove he's owning the opposition.'The sad thing is, now, when I make a deal with them — it's something much more reasonable — they'll say, 'Oh, he was chicken. He was chicken,' Trump said during Wednesday's press conference. 'That's unbelievable.'There's certainly one person who doesn't believe it, and he's now determined to convince the rest of the world not to believe it, either. Fasten your seat belts.
The Hindu
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
3.39 lakh tourists visit Yercaud for summer festival
A total of 3.39 lakh tourists visited Yercaud for the summer festival held between May 23 and May 29. Every year, the summer festival is being celebrated in Yercaud to attract more tourists to the hill station. This year, the 48th summer festival began on May 23. Various competitions were conducted as part of the festival. On Thursday evening, at the closing ceremony of the festival, Salem District Collector R. Brindha Devi honoured the various department officials and staff for their contribution to conducting the festival successfully. In the seven days, 3.39 lakh tourists visited Yercaud, including 1.13 lakh people visited the horticulture farms like Anna Park, Botanical Garden, and Rose Garden; 76,136 people visited Ladies and Gents Seat; 52,878 people visited Pogoda Point; 29,207 people visited Boat House; 21,792 people visited Shervaroyan Temple; 21,353 people visited Eco Park; 20,449 people visited Kiliyur Falls; and 4,535 people visited Karadiyur view point. At the function, the Collector honoured officials and staff from Rural Development, Tourism, Police, Fire and Rescue Service, Highways, Health, Municipal Corporation, Town Panchayats, Municipalities, Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, Regional Transport Officers, and conservancy workers. Officials from various departments participated.
