Probably not the smartest move...
Granted, it’s probably true...
The Guardian
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” the president said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
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The president does not directly determine how much money any city receives from the federal government; appropriation is the constitutional function of Congress. Control over how money is spent – or withheld in acts of impoundment, which are forbidden under federal law – has become a point of increasing legal contention.
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Later on Monday, Mamdani responded publicly to Trump’s remarks at a campaign event in Astoria, Queens, saying that he had known “for months” that Trump would support Cuomo.
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Recent polling suggests that Mamdani has at least a 10-point lead over both opponents. An Atlas Intel poll ending 30 October shows Mamdani leading with 41% in support, compared with Cuomo’s 34% support and Sliwa getting 24% support.
Dude’s pathetic and desperate…
The Mirror
The president has even threatened to seize control of the city if Mamdani wins, as well as arrest and deport the state assembly member, who was born in Uganda but is a US citizen. It comes after 'panicking' Trump backed an unthinkable candidate and made an alamring threat to New Yorkers.
As it became clear that Mamdani was still leading in the polls on Monday, Republicans reportedly began clutching at straws by considering a last-ditch effort to block him from being sworn in.
The New York Young Republican Club is pushing for the use of an "insurrection clause" in the US Constitution. In an idea initially hatched over the summer, they cited language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment, which prevents anyone who has "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies” on the nation from taking office.
They all are...