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Rep. Elise Stefanik Announces Run for New York Governor
New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik will run for governor in 2026, she announced Friday. The announcement comes after Stefanik spent months hinting at a run and attacking the leadership of Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is up for reelection. Stefanik lambasted Hochul’s immigration policies during a House oversight hearing earlier this year and has […]
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LISTEN: Patrick Gaspard Says Mamdani Is Ready To Spend Down His Political Capital
We’re ready in New York for the attacks that we’re going to get from Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s going to find that Mayor Mamdani is not Eric Adams. He’s not Andrew Cuomo. He ain’t going to roll over and play dead for assaults against the city … We’re going to push back against their rhetoric […]
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Post-Election, Pols Hit Puerto Rico for 5-Day SOMOS Feast
Mayor Eric Adams is no-showing the SOMOS political conference for a second straight year, but nearly a dozen current City Hall staffers made the taxpayer-funded jaunt to Puerto Rico to hobnob with his successor. The list of attendees at the annual gathering includes deputy mayors Camille Joseph Varlack, Ana Almanzar, Suzanne Miles-Gustave and Adolfo Carrion, […]
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How Mamdani Won, By the Numbers
Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the mayoral race Tuesday night broke records in more ways than one. Not only will the Queens Assembly member become the city’s first South Asian and Muslim mayor, and the youngest in more than a century, he also hauled in nearly as many votes — more than 1,036,000 — as […]
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Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg
In the weeks before Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral dream went up in smoke on election night, a handful of independent spending groups backed by New York City’s oligarchy spent more than $55 million supporting the ex-governor or attacking his ultimately victorious rival, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani. With Cuomo garnering just under 855,000 votes, that amounted to the […]
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