"Communist Jihad Sympathizer" - Is Zohran Mamdani NYC’s MOST DANGEROUS Mayoral Candidate?
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Billionaire Bill Ackman backs NYC Mayor Adams to block socialist Zoran Mamdani, urging Cuomo to step aside. The PBD Podcast unpacks the political power plays, NYPD retirements, and what’s at stake as NYC faces a potential hard-left shift ahead of the 2025 mayoral election.
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| 0:00.0 | New York mayor, Mamdani. |
| 0:01.6 | I'm going to go to the New York mayor situation, |
| 0:03.2 | and I'm going to come back to the financial stuff. |
| 0:05.5 | So this guy, this is getting very interesting here, |
| 0:08.6 | to the point where Ackman, Bill Ackman, $10 billion guy, |
| 0:12.1 | backs Adams, Mayor Adams to stop socialist Mabdani |
| 0:14.9 | and calls on Cuomo to drop out. |
| 0:18.0 | Here's his tweet. |
| 0:19.0 | In summary, in a light of inability to add a new name to the ballot |
| 0:22.6 | and the low probability of success of a write-off in campaign, |
| 0:25.2 | the only candidate with a credible chance to beat Mamdani are Cuomo and Adams. |
| 0:30.6 | I met with Adams and Cuomo to discuss the upcoming election, |
| 0:35.4 | and I spent an hour or so with each of them. In short, my takeaway is that Adams can win the upcoming election. And I spent an hour or so with each of them. |
| 0:37.9 | In short, my takeaway is that Adams can win the upcoming election |
| 0:42.0 | and that the governor should step aside to maximize Adams probability of success. |
| 0:47.6 | I say this while having a high regard for Andrew Cuomo and his contribution to New York State, |
| 0:52.8 | but it was abundantly clear in his body language, his subdued energy, and his contribution to New York State, but it was abundantly clear in his |
| 0:55.4 | body language, his subdued energy and his proposals to beat Memdani that he is not up for the fight. |
| 1:02.2 | Bill Ackman is becoming a heavy, heavy, he has always been, but he's becoming at the highest |
| 1:07.0 | level right now a power player on what types of things they're doing when it comes |
| 1:11.5 | on to stuff like this. And while this is going on, NYPD retirement reportedly hits historic high |
| 1:19.1 | and Union says, Mamdani could make it even worse. So cops are sitting there saying, what the hell |
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