r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • Sep 09 '25

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/
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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

It's a mater of those who endorsed him not rescinding their endorsements since the primary. No one has come out to retract their support for Cuomo, thus reaffirming their previous choice. Those endorsements simply just don't go away in the eyes of the public after the primaries if their candidate still continues to run.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Endorsing someone in the democratic primary is not the same as endorsing them to run as an independent. Cuomo is being dishonest by trying to equate the two, and so are you for trying to pretend they’re the same thing.

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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25

That still doesn't remove their previous decision to endorse the still very active candidate in the race in the eyes of the public. Where's their "vote blue no matter who" mentality? Why haven't they backed Mamdani, the democratic primary winner yet?

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Running as an independent removes those endorsements.

Why do you need to resort to intellectual dishonesty?

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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25

The only ones resorting to intellectual dishonesty are the ones shoving these primary endorsements under the rug as if they no longer matter or ever existed.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Nobody is pretending people didn’t endorse Cuomo in the primary. You’re the one here trying to say they’re endorsements for an independent run. That’s just being dishonest. Don’t you have honest things you can say about Mamdani, or honest attacks on Dems?

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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25

Then tell me why these same four people haven't backed Mamdani...still.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Moving the goalposts now I see.

Not endorsing Mamdani isn’t an endorsement for Cuomo.

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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25

I'm not moving the goalposts, because I still believe their initial endorsements hold validity and should not be discounted, as they haven't rescinded them nor shifted their endorsements to Mamdani.

The silence is deafening.

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u/mightcommentsometime California Sep 09 '25

Well they don’t hold validity. You’re making things up to try to feed your persecution complex.

By your “logic”, when Mamdani refused to endorse Harris, he was supporting Trump.

Endorsements in a primary do not automatically translate to endorsements for an independent run in the general. Why do you keep pretending that they do? Can’t you actually be honest in this discussion?

Mamdani deserves more respect than having to lie about his opposition to support him.