Hugh Hewitt: High Stakes in New York City

Friday, October 31, 2025

As we look at the New York City mayor’s race and the prospects of their actually electing Zohran Mamdani, the questions are emerging:

How bad could he be?

And:

How bad could it get?

The answers are "very" and "very much worse than it is right now, which isn’t great to begin with."

Many Cuomo voters are throwing in with Cuomo for the most practical of reasons: 300,000 people work for New York City and Comrade Mamdani has no idea how to run a city of that size.

Whatever your ideology, no one wants to live through a disaster in governance. That’s what a vote for Mamdani is: A vote for chaos.

New York City is no place for a rookie mayor. Pray that a surge of usually indifferent voters turns up by Tuesday, that they vote for Cuomo and resist the temptation to throw away their vote on Curtis Sliwa. The stakes are just too high.

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