Ep. 2305 - “Rabbis For Mamdani” And Other Idiotic Ideas
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A ton coming up on today's show. New polls showing that Andrew Cuomo is closing the gap on Zoran Mamdani. What does that mean? Plus, we examine one of the more bizarre videos of the campaign season, Rabbis for Mamdani. Is that a real thing? Spoiler alert, not so much. Plus, we're joined by the Speaker of the House of Representatives about the government shutdown first. Less than two weeks ago, we launched our new flagship show, Friendly Fire, right here on Daily Wire Plus. It's me, Matt Walsh, Michael Moles, Andrew Klavan, coming together live to debate, discuss, and yes, disagree on the biggest stories making headlines. In our very first episode, we dropped two massive announcements, the all-new Daily Wire lifetime membership, and the first look at our upcoming epic, the Pendragon Cycle.
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Apparently, this brand new poll that is out from Suffolk University shows that Mamdani no longer leads Cuomo by 20 points or 15 points. That lead is down to 10, and Mamdani is stuck at 44%. Now, typically, when somebody wins that New York mayoral race, they win well over a majority. Here, you have Mamdani at 44, you have Cuomo at 34, and you have Sliwa at 11%. And so, again, there's gonna be a lot of talk if Mamdani ends up mayor about why Curtis Sliwa stayed in the race. And this is not an anti-Curtis point. This is just a reality point. Curtis Sliwa is not gonna be the next mayor of New York. And if his vote share is larger than the margin of victory for Mamdani, there'll be a lot of questions to be asked.
And again, the main question is gonna be asked of Andrew Cuomo, why is he such a terrible candidate? And there'll be big questions of the New York population. Why are you all insipid? But the real question for Sliwa is gonna be why you didn't drop out. As David Pagliologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, says, there's one person in New York City whose voters could have an outsized impact on the outcome, and it's Lewa. So this is the first poll since Mayor Adams, Eric Adams, dropped out of the race. Most of his support bled on over to Andrew Cuomo. It is also the second poll to show Cuomo narrowing the gap with Mamdani since Adams dropped out of the race. A lot of the opposition to Mamdani is materializing his support for Cuomo, which is precisely what you would expect.
Because again, it's not like Andrew Cuomo is any great shakes. Mamdani is running a terrible final week of this campaign. Truly an awful, awful final week of this campaign. He has decided that his closing message is going to be that New York City is famous for Islamophobia. And if you don't elect him, it's because you don't like Muslims. which is a wild statement in a city that suffered 9-11, where apparently the only victim of 9-11, according to Zoran Mamdani, was his not aunt. And I say not aunt advisedly because as it turns out, it was not in fact his aunt who was wearing some sort of hijab on the subway and somebody gave him a mean look. According to the New York Post, the aunt who Zoran Mamdani said was too afraid to wear her hijab on the subways after 9-11 is actually his father's cousin,
A distant relative, in other words. How many of your father's cousins do you know? Like a lot of them? My parents have cousins.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:32
2
What does the latest Suffolk University poll say about Cuomo vs. Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race?
3:32–11:57
3
How did Mamdani's 9/11 anecdote and ‘Islamophobia’ message backfire in his closing campaign week?
11:57–42:03
4
Why is Mamdani’s ideology described as a ‘red‑green alliance’ and what clips reveal his positions?
42:03–57:38
5
Who are the viral ‘Rabbis for Mamdani’ and why is the video being ridiculed?
57:38–1:07:41
Speakers
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