Right before New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, political seers declared with enormous confidence that Andrew Cuomo would easily beat Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. They were wrong.
Now, about a month before the general election where Cuomo is running as an independent, the same blowhards are barking that Mamdani has it all but in the bag. They may be wrong again.
It was believed that Mayor Eric Adams had split the non-Mamdani votes with Cuomo and that if he left the race, Cuomo’s poll numbers would rise. A handful of hours after Adams did drop out, CNN’s “Chief Data Analyst” Harry Enten is bellowing that the mayor’s departure proved to be “a giant dud” for Cuomo, because his numbers improved just slightly.
Many Adams supporters probably didn’t even know then that their candid