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Cuomo concedes to left-wing Zohran Mamdani in NY mayor primary (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

what's his angle?

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

An actual progressive, see https://www.zohranfornyc.com/

Policies ranging from city-owned grocery stores to taxing the rich to making NYC busses free and more

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

nah, I meant Cuomo, guy is such a crank I expect he has some alterior motive

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

He's also signed paperwork to run as an independent in the general election in case he lost the primary.

"I said he won the primary election," Cuomo told the outlet. "I said I wanted to look at the numbers and the ranked-choice voting to decide about what to do in the future, because I'm also on an independent line."

Though he probably expected it to be far closer than this. Zohran massively outperformed polls. No polls had him winning the first round let alone by this much (even the few polls that had Zohran winning)

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