President Donald Trump is considering getting further involved in the New York City mayoral race, with multiple people suggesting to him that Gov. Andrew Cuomo would be the best person to support — but that could prove convoluted in a race where the former governor has built a brand on standing up to Trump and butting heads with his administration.
The New York Times first reported Wednesday that the president spoke with Cuomo recently about the race and has had multiple conversations with supporters and donors about how best to defeat Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist and state assemblymember who bested Cuomo by more than 10 percentage points in the Democratic mayoral primary. At least two people vouched for Cuomo in those conversations, according to the Times.
But it remains unclear how Cuomo would be able to convince his voters to swallow an alliance with the president, given his campaign’s overarching message of antagonism toward Trump.