President Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind independent New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo, part of a last-ditch attempt to stop the Democratic nominee and self-professed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani from winning on Tuesday.
“Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice,” Trump posted on Truth Social Monday evening. “You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, Mamdani is not!”
Trump, a native New Yorker, called Mamdani a communist and repeated on Monday his previous threats to withhold federal funding from New York City should Mamdani win. NOTUS reported in October that the state receives more than $7 billion in federal funds across at least 20 different agencies and departments.