Republicans Are Desperate For You To Care About The NYC Mayoral Race
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Many people live in New York City. Many, many, many people live somewhere else. You need not care about the NYC mayoral race.
Supplemental nutrition assistance is going unpaid. Air traffic controllers are calling out of work, leading to cascading flight delays across the country. The House majority leader is refusing to swear in a new legislator who would cast the pivotal vote to release the Epstein files. And the U.S. economy may be in a recession, but we wouldn’t know because we can’t see that data because of the ongoing government shutdown.
So naturally, Republicans want you to be all in on who New York City elects for mayor.
Roughly 97.5% of the country lives somewhere other than New York City, but that hasn’t stopped people like Rep. Andy Ogles from casting the race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo as an event on par with 9/11.
The Tennessee Republican, who, like the vast majority of the country, will be completely unaffected by the outcome of the election, posted a video of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, on Monday, along with the caption, “WAKE UP NEW YORK!”
In a follow-up post he called for Mamdani to be deported. Mamdani is a U.S. citizen.
The Justice Department accidentally gave Congress “damning evidence” of Trump’s guilt, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
The CNN conservative commentator is "a perfect metaphor for the GOP," argued Miles Taylor.
Trump said the gift indicated that he is "dealing with the right people."
The former White House communications director gave "Trump derangement syndrome" a new definition.
The party's run of success in special elections across the country over the past year continues even in Republican dominated Florida.
One survey has the public grading his handling of the economy worse than former President Joe Biden.
The data guru declared that there's "no way on God's green earth" that the GOP retains the House majority if such numbers hold until the midterms.
During a stop by MS NOW, U.S. intelligence expert John Brennan said the president is "flailing" and doing anything he can to move the needle.
The 34-year-old said she hoped to "take accountability for the wrongs that [I’ve] done" by including a reference to her mom's 2015 killing in a viral TikTok clip.
The firebrand rightwinger tried so hard to highlight a supposed Trump win but she flubbed it in a big way.
Despite having been in Florida while early voting was underway, Trump chose to cast his ballot by mail, a method he's vowed to outlaw for most Americans.
MS NOW’s Michael Steele charged the president with his “petty” and “degrading” behavior.
The California governor's press office did ask nicely, though.