Will The Real Zohran Mamdani Please Stand Up?
With Seven Weeks to Go, Voters Deserve to Know: Who the Hell is Zohran Mamdani & What Does he stand for?
"These Are Not ‘Gotcha’ Questions, Nor Are They, as Mamdani Now Says, ‘A Mythical Version’ of Him — They are his Own Words, his Own Positions, & his Own Record" - Andrew Cuomo
Will the Real Zohran Mamdani Please Stand Up?
With just over seven weeks until Election Day, Zohran Mamdani has embarked on a flip-flopping apology tour — distancing himself from the Democratic Socialists of America one day, but urging others to join the DSA the next alongside Bernie Sanders, pledging to apologize for calling the NYPD racist – after years of refusing to do so – and literally running away from the press when asked direct questions about associating with a media influencer who said “America deserved 9/11.” He claims billionaires shouldn’t exist one day, while his PAC cashes checks from one the next.
“Will the real Mamdani please stand up? For weeks, Zohran Mamdani has been ducking, dodging, and rewriting his own record. New Yorkers deserve straight answers. These are not ‘gotcha’ questions, nor are they - as Mamdani now says - ‘a mythical version’ of him — they are his own words, his own positions, and his own record," Andrew Cuomo said. “Until he gives clear, honest responses, voters are left with just one question of their own: Who is Zohran Mamdani, and what does he stand for?”
While Mamdani scrambles to rewrite his record, New Yorkers deserve clarity.
So today, we are calling on him to answer 10 simple questions — without spin, without dodges, without excuses:
- Do you also apologize for calling the NYPD “anti-queer & a major threat to public safety”? Do you apologize for calling the NYPD “wicked & corrupt”?
- Do you apologize for saying there is “no negotiating” with the NYPD and calling to “dismantle it”?
- Do you still believe that “violence is an artificial construction”?
- Do you apologize for calling Barack Obama “pretty damn evil” and “a liar”?
- Do you apologize for comparing Hakeem Jeffries — one of the most respected leaders in Congress — to segregationist George Wallace?
- Do you condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada”? Not “discourage its use” — flat out condemn it.
- Do you apologize for praising the “Holy Land 5” — a group convicted and jailed for funding terrorism?
- Do you condemn the words of your friend Hasan Piker, who said “America deserved 9/11”? And do you apologize for smirking and running away from reporters when asked about it this week?
- Do you still believe the goal of government should be to “seize the means of production”?
- Do you still support full decriminalization of prostitution, which experts warn could turn New York into a sex tourism capital?
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