New York’s Stop-Mamdani movement may fall short for Andrew Cuomo despite Eric Adams endorsement
There was Andrew Cuomo , at Madison Square Garden, yukking it up at a Knicks game. What was the ousted governor so happy about? He’d just come from the final New York mayoral debate, where he landed some blows against front-runner Zohran Mamdani , but he’s still on track to lose the election. Ah, but the appearance at an NBA game (the league suddenly tainted by a gambling scandal that includes the Mafia!) – was a photo op, with Mayor Eric Adams, who endorsed his onetime rival yesterday. So what if he called Cuomo "a snake and a liar" last month? ANDREW CUOMO CAMPAIGN WALKS BACK CONTROVERSIAL ATTACK AD TARGETING MAMDANI VOTERS Yet Adams, who had been indicted on corruption charges–until the Trump Justice Department dropped the case–was down in the single digits. So his backing may not move many votes, though it could give Cuomo some street cred in the Black community and among Orthodox Jews. New York City politics is a game of nine-dimensional chess, with shifting allia...