Cuomo Predicts Trump Will Help Him Become NYC Mayor

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In a leaked recording, NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo suggests that Trump will urge his supporters to vote for him, rather, rather than GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa.

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.
0:08.4	This is my daily politics podcast.
0:11.0	It's Wednesday, August 20th.
0:15.0	We'll begin today with our weekly Wednesday visit about the New York City mayoral race
0:19.2	from WNYC and Gothamist political reporter
0:22.3	Elizabeth Kim. And today, Liz is being joined by a second guest, Jeff Colton, reporter for Politico
0:29.4	and co-author of their morning newsletter called New York Playbook. And here's why Jeff is joining.
0:34.6	Politico has obtained an audio recording of Andrew Cuomo at a Hampton's fundraiser.
0:40.4	This was just last weekend on Saturday, where he basically predicts that President Trump and other top Republicans will help him get elected mayor.
0:48.8	Republicans will help him get elected mayor, including Trump personally.
0:53.3	And Cuomo says he feels good about that.
0:56.3	Jeff has brought that audio clip, and we will play it for you in a minute.
1:00.9	What it plays into is the narrative from the Democratic nominees, Zeranamamani,
1:07.2	that Cuomo would be a representative of Trump as mayor, kind of like Eric Adams has been seen,
1:13.7	and that would be bad for the city.
1:16.1	Now, Cuomo contends that being able to work with Trump on some things would protect the city.
1:22.3	So we'll play the tape and talk about the implications and also some other news relevant to the campaign.
1:27.2	So happy Wednesday, Liz.
1:28.7	Hiya.
1:29.4	Hi, happy Wednesday.
1:31.1	And Jeff Colton from Political.
1:33.0	Thanks for coming on.
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