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Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani - midwest.social

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old member of the state Assembly had a significant lead in the race Tuesday night. Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote. Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist member of the state Assembly, started to pull ahead with more than an estimated 80% of ballots counted.

Jun 25, 2025 at 2:42amWeb
Show threadOlgratin_MagmatoeJun 25, 2025

Thank fuck

Hopefully he wins the general

Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Jun 25, 2025
Adams doesn’t stand a chance
Show threadTauZeroJun 25, 2025

Wtf happened to Adams? Sure, he was under criminal corruption indictments, then cozied up to Trump and got “pardoned” (charges dismissed). But then he was supposed to be on the Democratic primary ballot, his picture was even in the official voter guide from a month ago, but on election day his name wasn’t even in the list? Now he’s apparently running as independent incumbent instead? What a booger!

EDIT: Both Cuomo and Adams are intending to run as independent in the general? WhyTF do we even have primaries then! If they are not going to play by their own rules of their special little club, let’s just extend Ranked Choice Voting to cover the general and scrap the primaries altogether!

Show threadNoneOfUrBusinessJun 25, 2025

WhyTF do we even have primaries then!

So progressives don't get any ideas. As I said elsewhere in the thread: I better not hear another liberal saying we can't split the vote again.

Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Jun 25, 2025

As I said elsewhere in the thread: I better not hear another liberal saying we can’t split the vote again.

Do you actually understand the difference between FPTP and ranked choice?

Show threadEugene V. Debs' GhostJun 25, 2025

Do you actually understand the voting process you’re commenting on?

EDIT: I’ll take that as saying the same thing as the others above me as a “No, I don’t get what I’m commenting on, everyone is wrong but me.”

Show threaddanc4498Jun 25, 2025
This is the dream of ranked choice. The more candidates the better.
Show threadTauZeroJun 25, 2025
Don’t understand why it wasn’t done this way in the first place. RCV was approved as a New York City Charter amendment by a voter initiative in 2019, but only applies to primary city elections, not general. You’d think procedurally it would be easier to justify altering the general election process that the Constitution actually applies to, rather than what is technically internal business of independent private organizations (the Democratic and the Republican parties).
Show threaddanc4498Jun 25, 2025
I don’t realize it wouldn’t be in the main election. If so, then Cuomo better not run… Maybe they do it like this as a stepping stone. Get everybody used to the process in the primaries before rolling it out to the main.
Show threadNull User ObjectJun 25, 2025

I mean, yay, but…

an estimated 80% of ballots counted.

That’s just the first round, right? Does he not understand how RCV works? Unless his team already knows who everyone’s second and third choices are, it’s not remotely over yet. What am I missing?

Show threadusernamesAreTrickyJun 25, 2025

A historically massive over performance of the polls and how the candidate (Lander) who is third on the first round is also a progressive

Few polls had Zohran winning. Even the polling that had Zohran winning had him losing the first round vote by a fair amount and only flipping to win in the 7th round. No polling had him winning the 1st round. He’s just won the first round by like 7% of the vote. He’s not far from 50% of the vote outright on round one

We won’t have the official results from the later ranked choice rounds until July 1st, but just ~60% of Lander’s #2 votes alone would push him above 50% even if all candidates below Lander went 100% Cuomo for #2. Lander cross endorsed Zohran and told his supporters to rank Zohran #2

Show threadnjm1314Jun 25, 2025
If the sexual predators coalition had won this thing the party might have collapsed. So this is good for the party and the city.
Show threadSalehJun 25, 2025
It is unfair to reduce them to that. They are also staunch supporters of genocide and imperialism.
Show threadNoneOfUrBusinessJun 25, 2025
I better not hear another liberal saying we can't split the vote again.
Cuomo to also run as independent for mayor

He will also continue to seek the Democratic nomination.

Show threadArbitraryValueJun 25, 2025
What does vote splitting have to do with a Democratic primary?
Show threadBaron Von JJun 25, 2025
The liberal candidate who lost (Cuomo) has announced he is going to run in the general as an independent (which is in OP’s link), instead of supporting the nominee. So Cuomo primary voters may split from the Democratic nominee in the general for Cuomo.
Show threadoakey66Jun 25, 2025
Someone is going to run as an independent in the general election. I really hope they aren’t able to rat fuck this win.
Show thread𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍Jun 25, 2025
Honestly, Cuomo and Adams have the same target demographic: assholes. Everyone else backs Zohran
Show threadMatch!!Jun 25, 2025
I sure hope assholes don’t have a large voter turnout in [checks notes] New York City!??
Show threadArbitraryValueJun 25, 2025
Not the mayor I want, but then again I didn’t particularly want Cuomo either. I wish there had been a viable centrist candidate who hadn’t resigned in shame from his last position.
Show threadViking_HippieJun 25, 2025

Insisting on “Viable centrist candidates” no matter how far right the GOP moves the Overton Window is how you get fascism.

At this point, a “Centrist” in the US is far right by the standards of democracies in general.

Show threadSalehJun 25, 2025
It is probably a dog whistle for Zionist. Mamdani has been outspoken against Zionism.
Show threadViking_HippieJun 25, 2025

checks comment history of ArbitraryValue

Yup, sure seems to be a zionist at any rate…

Show threadSalehJun 25, 2025

People can also fall for and parrot a dog whistle without understanding it.

At any rate it is ridiculous how the New York City mayor race was centered around whether the candidates “support Israel” or are “antisemites”.

Show threadBigTrout75Jun 25, 2025
This is why ranked choice has been banned in a lot of places. It breaks the duopoly.
Show threadtalJun 25, 2025
The election here was the Democratic primary. It didn’t cut the Democrats out of the loop.
Show thread9point6Jun 25, 2025

Didn’t he just announce he was going to run third party yesterday anyway?

I swear I read an article about that on here

Show threadBonifratzJun 25, 2025

> stupid, barely democratic election system

> only assholes and morons get elected

> change to a sensible system

> an actual representative of the common people gets elected

> mfw

Show threadEugene V. Debs' GhostJun 25, 2025
Who knew making it easier for voters to pick a candidate makes the candidates easier to pick?
Show threadEugene V. Debs' GhostJun 25, 2025

So you don’t have to spend millions on a liberal Joe Rogan, or attack trans people, or support genocide to win a race in America? God damn, that’s incredible!

I’m very happy to hear this news. Genuinely one of the best news I’ve heard all year round. Maybe there is a sliver of hope.

Show threadAbsarokaJun 25, 2025

If this election was held in 2023, you have to wonder if the outcome would have been wildly different.

For once, an encouraging sign for sanity and common sense.

Show threadsamus12345Jun 25, 2025
Yeah, that’s what we all thought when Biden won.
Show threadexplodicleJun 25, 2025

I called the 2024 election when Biden won in 2020. He was a shitty corporate centrist candidate who was never going to address our deep structural inequality, and so frustrated uneducated people voted for change in 2024. Obama won 2008 because people wanted “Change”. Trump won 2016 to drain the swamp. We’re all so sick of this crony corporate bullshit.

Socialists or we lose. It should’ve been obvious all along that the “centrists” and “Libertarians” are just embarrassed Republicans. America has been sick and tired of corporations overtly ruling for decades and moderates don’t want to own that.

Voters weren’t scared of a dictatorship on day one by a guy quoting Hitler. And at this point, they aren’t scared of socialism, not anymore. The only way we win elections is by supporting candidates who are actually good. Even if a moderate wins this election, they’ll lose us the next election and the good half will be undone. We can only discount the value of the next election iff our candidate will address our broken elections.

TL;DR: Socialists or we lose.

Show threaddriving_croonerJun 25, 2025
Biden was right when he said “Nothing will fundamentally change”
Show threadBranch_RanchJun 25, 2025
LET’S FUCKING GO!
Show threadblaggle42Jun 25, 2025
The fact that Clinton endorsed Cuomo is the cherry on top.
Show threadSkyezOpenJun 25, 2025
When do you think they’ll realize their name is poisonous? Or would that require more introspection than a Clinton is even capable of?
Show threadblaggle42Jun 25, 2025

I’m suspicious that sociopaths are a parasitic subspecies. Like there are these alien creatures that look entirely human walking around among us. They look like us, talk like us, but think that the general human species is inferior to their own.

What if they could identify other sociopaths, and were working in concert. Hmm, this is ridiculous.

Anyway, yeah. I don’t think Clinton is capable of that level of introspection.

Show threadgrrgyleJun 26, 2025

I’m suspicious that sociopaths are a parasitic subspecies.

That’s an interesting perspective. I wouldn’t go so far as to dehumanise them, though. I think they’re just another type of human — that’s particularly well adapted at fucking shit up in such a way that they, and potentially their ingroup, come out on top.

It’s a highly unfortunate type of person of course and a very likely cause for the premature death of our biosphere if it comes to that.

Show threadsome_guyJun 25, 2025

Holy shit! It happened! I’m elated.

Edit: Congrats New Yorkers!

Show threadwpbJun 25, 2025
Watch that rat fuck run as independent to split the vote.
Show threadDoucheBagMcSwagJun 25, 2025
He is. It’s confirmed
Show threaddzsimboJun 25, 2025
This’ll just ensure a republican win, will it not?
Show threadDoucheBagMcSwagJun 25, 2025

Depending on if NY elections are closed or open.

Closed? Not if the same people that voted today vote again.

Open. Likely Republicans will vote across the isle to stick it to the “radical socialist” and vote for Cuomo

Show threadJackbyDevJun 25, 2025

Bu- bu- but is he gonna visit Israel? /s

context

In a debate they asked where candidates would visit. Once one of them said they’d visit Israel, a lot of others said they would too. Mamdani basically said he’d stay in NYC because he’d be the mayor and it’s important to focus on his constituents. So then the moderators are like “Just to clarify, you wouldn’t visit Israel?” And he’s like I wanna focus on New Yorkers then they’re like “Do you support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state?” 🙄 Absolutely insane. The man just answers “where would you visit” by saying he wouldn’t travel so he can focus on constituents and it turns into a purity test about his views on Israel’s existence? Just shameful. Like imagine if someone is like “I’ll have a salad” and then the waiter asks “Do you support cattle farmer’s right to earn a living?”

Show threaddhorkJun 25, 2025
There are a lot of Jewish people in NYC, though, as Jesse Jackson once famously (and crudely) noted…
Jackson Admits Making Ethnic Slur - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted to a Jewish audience here last night that he had indeed made insulting references to Jews last month but insisted that neither he nor his remarks could be “remotely construed as being anti-Semitic or anti-Israel.” Jackson, who is seeking the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination, spoke to an overflow crowd at […]

Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Show threadJackbyDevJun 25, 2025
And?
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Jun 25, 2025

Poor people be voting for the conservative while higher income people be voting for the socialist. This is so ironic…

Edit: Source: nytimes.com/…/nyc-mayor-primary-results-precinct-…

The Most Detailed Map of New York City Mayoral Primary Results

See neighborhood-level election results from the first round of the mayoral race.

The New York Times
Show threadgrrgyleJun 26, 2025
It’s makes you want to cry or throw a big shiny round bomb in someone’s gilded carriage. One of those two.