New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani may finally be sweating it out just a bit. Some new polling has been released, and it would appear that some of these hits against him are starting to have an impact.
While he still enjoys a big lead in a three-way race, if GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa drops out, it just about anyone’s race at that point.
Mamdani is starting to upset people, only it is not the group we thought that would be upset.
Mamdani has been palling around with some radicals, and it is the Muslims in the city who have been trying to shed that radical image who are now giving him grief.
Mamdani was campaigning with an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Dalia Ziada, a Muslim scholar and fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, called Mamdani out, stating, “I am particularly concerned to see mosques used as political rallying platforms in the free and democratic United States.”
She continued, “By embracing Wahhaj, Zohran Mamdani is sidelining moderate Muslims and normalizing an extremist ideology that once inspired terror on American soil and still fuels radicalization within segments of the Muslim community today.”
Six people were killed in that bombing, and more than 1,000 were injured, and the survivors who are still alive also hit Mamdani for being all buddy-buddy with Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
Former Port Authority executive director Stan Brezenoff, whose officers were there at time, stated, “Nobody should minimize what happened. It was a hellish experience dwarfed by the unimaginable atrocity on 9/11.”
Wahhaj continues to say he is innocent, even throwing shade at the CIA and FBI as the “real terrorists.”
Quite frankly, I cannot believe he would dare to be seen with this man during a campaign cycle, but he continues to thumb his nose at Americans.
Mamdani is still a virtual lock if this remains a three-way race, but Republicans are really starting to put the pressure on Sliwa to leave the race.
If that were to happen, polling has Cuomo inside the 4% margin of error, trailing Mamdani by 3.9%. The key, however, is that there are still a significant number of undecided voters, which could easily swing this race in Cuomo’s favor.
There is something else that is a bit interesting. In the three-way poll, it was Sliwa that made the biggest move after the debate, moving all the way up to 19.4%, taking a chunk out of Cuomo and a little bit from Mamdani (he still leads 43.2%-28.9%-19.4%).
I don’t expect Sliwa to leave the race, but if he does, this gets very interesting for Mamdani, who has the been the leader of this race ever since the Democrat primary ended.
