And then there were three: Eric Adams does the right thing
Current NY Mayor Eric Adams was actually my favorite Democrat of the three competing in the 2025 New York mayoral race, which I suppose isn’t saying much. But he didn’t have a chance to win, and his presence was making it even more likely that the especially abominable Mamdani would win. So I’m glad Adams dropped out:
Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of New York City’s mayoral race Sunday amid escalating pressure to clear the crowded field in a last-ditch attempt to stop socialist Zohran Mamdani’s election to City Hall.
The bombshell move came after weeks of back-and-forth over whether Adams would bow out of the race, in which he is polling fourth, far behind frontrunner Mamdani, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and also, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. …
The mayor noted his campaign’s inability to fundraise, taking aim at the city’s Campaign Finance Board for repeatedly denying him millions of dollars in matching public funds, which put him at a massive disadvantage compared to his opponents.
Adams was fourth in the polls, after Mamdani, Cuomo, and Sliwa (the Republican). Who’ll drop out next – if anyone? My best guess – although I wouldn’t bet a ton of money on this – is that the answer is “no one.” Cuomo’s best chance to win would be if Sliwa drops out, but Sliwa is the only Republican and he might hope that the other two will split the Democratic vote and let him squeak past. I doubt that would ever happen; there just aren’t that many Republicans in New York City. Cuomo certainly wouldn’t drop out without Sliwa dropping out; it would basically guarantee a Mamdani victory if it became a two-way race between Mamdani and Sliwa. And besides Cuomo is a huge egotist. And of course Mamdani the frontrunner isn’t leaving.
If you believe this poll from two weeks ago, even in a two-way race between Mamdani and Cuomo, the former wins. Add Sliwa into the picture and Mamdani’s margin increases. But there’s still time for Cuomo to close the gap.
What a mess.
Too late, not for him.
Cynically I will say that a two way race on the Democrat side simplifies the cheating. One less faction from the less crazy side of the party and the one left has historically been in control of the deep party that directs the cheating.
Once vibrant NYC is slowly becoming a distant memory, something akin to an Angkor Wat-like relic. So consequently, a place of little contemporary interest,
The New York City is lost. Say good-bye to the Big Apple.
Miami is the new NYC, with better weather.
If Neo’s title is a shout-out to the Agatha Christie murder mystery, let’s hope it is not precognitive.
Mamdani is the Winner!!!!!!
He won the annual Chamber of Commerce Awards in both Texas and Florida!!
Also won the annual award for best promoter of U-Haul!!!!
Lastly, The American Association Of Mosque Constructors also awarded him.
If you are in NYC – my advice is to flee. Now.
As AesopSpouse remarked to me today, “No one needs NYC any more.”
With everything financial going digital, most of the important industries located far away, and no longer the single most important venue for art, music, or theater,
its time has passed.
There will be some grieving by those who love the city, at least as it once was, and that is appropriate.
Sliwa would have no constituency for the necessary reforms even if he did get elected.
Electing Cuomo would just slow the decline.
Maybe after it hits bottom under Mamdani, it can be rebuilt in a new context.
Yeah, it’s the “right thing”. And No it’s not. Lefties MUST be made to suffer to learn a lesson!!! Make NY Detroit!!!!
Neo, why do you prefer Cuomo (and Adams) rather than Sliwa?
And why is Mamdani doing so well? Are the voters nuts, bought off by freebies, or is it vote fraud?
Selfy:
I don’t know why you came to the conclusion that I prefer Cuomo or Adams to Sliwa. Got back and read what I wrote: “Current NY Mayor Eric Adams was actually my favorite Democrat of the three competing in the 2025 New York mayoral race, which I suppose isn’t saying much.” My favorite Democrat of the three who were running: Mamdani, Cuomo, or Adams.
I think Mamdani is doing so well because the voters of NY have been moving further and further left and young Democrats (Mamdani’s largest group of supporters) in particular have become more anti-Semitic and pro-socialist, and prefer youthful candidates.
It seems to me that in Neo’s reply to Selfy she sees a Nazi-like rebirth in NYC: “more anti-Semitic and pro-socialist…prefer youthful candidates”.
Despite our Leftists trying for decades to persuade us Nazis were right-wing, they were not. The -zi in Nazi stands for socialists. Nazi is short for National Socialists in German.
Mamdani will be the next mayor of NYC; once in office he will make DeBlasio and Dinkins look like they were ultra-right-wing fanatics.
This will suit most of the residents of NYC and the NY City council just fine.
And if he bankrupts NYC , NYC will just wait until the demonkrats regain the Presidency to get bailed out.
I keep reading articles about how NYC’s wealthy and big businesses will be driven out of NYC. Perhaps a few (some? a bunch?) wealthy individuals will leave, but the big investment banks and financial institutions will not.
And NYC takes in a massive amount of tax revenue from the financial firms domiciled in NYC.
JP Morgan Chase recently built a new, very large, headquarters building in NYC; approval has just been given for a hedge fund financed building that will be the tallest in midtown Manhattan, and another hedge fund has just leased more office space in Manhattan. True, I cite just three instances of investment in NYC, but these institutions would not have done so if they are considering getting out of Dodge.
The fact is that job growth RATE within the financial sector in NYC would be quite a bit higher, if not for financial firms opening up offices in Texas and Florida (which they are), but the RATE of job growth within the financial arena in NYC is still positive.
Lastly, just an anecdote; when you visit Manhattan you will see numerous , real tall construction cranes at work.
Folks with very deep pockets are staying and/or building and investing in NYC , notwithstanding Mamdani’s mayoral debut or the talking heads declaring a mass exodus from NYC.
Frankly, I don’t understand why these large financial institutions still decide to remain in NYC.
Curtis Sliwa is too egotistical to drop out.
I don’t think Sliwa should drop out, especially not in favor of Cuomo–did we forget he killed people?
If New Yorkers are presented with full Commie, corrupt progressive sexual harasser short-of-Commie who literally killed their Nanas, and Sliwa, and a plurality picks full Commie, great. They had a real choice between real options and they chose. If they want a system that can and does deliver Commie then by God they should get Commie.
Experience keeps a dear school and fools will have no other. For the rest, there’s U-Haul, though I prefer Penske to be honest.
@JohnTyler:And if he bankrupts NYC , NYC will just wait until the demonkrats regain the Presidency to get bailed out.
This is very easy to say, much harder to do. Bankruptcy is not something that can be just be sat through until January 2027. Some sort of emergency power of the governor or the President would probably be used.
Your point about the really big businesses not thinking this means anything is well taken. It’s the people who actually have skin in the game who should be presumed to know best. Doesn’t mean they are infallible, of course, but a mayor is not a dictator. Supposing he believed himself to be Napoleon, he couldn’t make himself Emperor or invade Italy. He may be a Communist but he cannot make NYC Communist.
So many of the people who have strong opinions have never and will never set foot in NYC. I’ve see the contrast between blog comment descriptions of Seattle and Portland and actual Seattle and Portland, for example, and I have no reason to think people who are not accurate about Seattle and Portland now are more accurate about NYC hypothetically.
Folks with very deep pockets are staying and/or building and investing in NYC ,
Yes and no. There was an article in yesterday’s NY Post saying that JP Morgan Chase now has more employees in Texas than in NYC. My wife works at a medium-size financial institution that moved its HQ to Nashville some years ago, while downsizing their office space in NYC. Quite a few employees who could have stayed in NYC opted to relocate to Nashville.
It’s true that companies will keep a presence in NYC, and young people without kids and the wealthy still flock to Manhattan and the nicer parts of Brooklyn, but bit by bit the exodus is underway already because of DeBlasio and Bragg, and it will continue under Mamdani.
I don’t believe a majority of New Yorkers really want Mamdani, but his opposition generates no enthusiasm, so Mamdani will more than likely get the turnout and volunteers to win the vote, since he only needs 40% or less to win.
Adams seems like a decent guy with good instincts. He just didn’t have the moxie to really stand up to the leftists in NYC. Of course if he had he probably never would have been elected mayor in the first place. A sad commentary on NYC voters that he trails so badly behind a commie and a creep.
Since Silwa has no chance whatsoever, the choice is between a mass murderer of nursing home residents and a Hamas supporting Muslim who favors communist subversion of America.
The vast majority of adult NYC residents deserve their fate.