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New York on the Brink: The Race That Could Radically Reshape the Left

Morning Wire

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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As election day approaches, no race has garnered more attention than the race to become New York’s next mayor. The race pits a once-popular Governor of the state against a self-described democratic socialist. National Review Columnist Caroline Downey joins the show to discuss. Get the facts first with Morning Wire. - - - Wake up with new Morning Wire merch: https://bit.ly/4lIubt3 - - - Today's Sponsors: Balance of Nature: Go to balanceofnature.com and use promo code WIRE for 35% off your first order as a preferred customer PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice. - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy morning wire,morning wire podcast,the morning wire podcast,Georgia Howe,John Bickley,daily wire podcast,podcast,news podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A series of significant elections are taking place on November 4th, but none have drawn as much

0:09.6

attention as the contest for mayor of New York City. The race pits a once popular Democrat governor

0:15.2

who's fallen from grace against an upstart state assemblyman who calls himself a Democratic socialist, but whose critics

0:22.5

call him a radical communist. Also on the ticket is a Republican who's been under fire to withdraw

0:27.7

in order to save the city from far-left policies. In this episode, we sit down with National

0:33.0

Review writer Caroline Downey to discuss the state of the race in this final stretch. I'm Daily Wire,, Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire. I don't know about you, but I'm always looking for ways to get more fruits and vegetables into my day. That's why balance of nature fruit and veggie supplements have become a part of my daily routine. I love the convenience of their capsules. They're super easy to take with you. Plus, I feel better when I'm taking them. What I love about balance of nature is that these aren't your typical supplements. They're made from ingredients of 16 whole fruits and 15 whole vegetables, freeze dried, and lab tested. No binders, no fillers, no flow agents. Just real food ingredients in a capsule. And here's the thing. You can take them with water, you can chew them, or you can even open the capsules and mix the powder into your food or drink. Personally, I just take them with water. Balance of nature's goal is simple. Deliver the natural goodness of ingredients of fruits, vegetables, spices, and fibers, just as nature intended. Right now, as a new preferred customer,

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Joining us to discuss the three-way race for mayor of New York City between Zoran Mondani, Andrew Cuomo, and

1:45.6

Curtis Sliwa is National Review writer Caroline Downey. Caroline, great to have you on the show. Thanks for coming on.

1:52.1

Thank you for having me. So we're just a couple of days away from this New York mayor's election.

1:57.3

It's one of the most watched mayoral races I can remember in recent elections.

2:07.1

Zoran Mamdani seems primed to win, but he's also facing some last-minute headwinds. That includes House Republicans urging the DOJ to investigate him, even possibly revoke his U.S.

2:12.6

citizenship. Let's start there. Is there any legitimate chance of these investigations impacting things?

2:18.3

I'm not 100% confident of that, especially with the final home stretch of the race being right now.

2:25.5

But I do think that it's worth investigating, honestly, some of the dark money ties to Zoran Mamdani's campaign.

2:33.4

We know that there is radical Islamic, you know, people who

2:37.6

have been involved in his campaign or adjacent to it. He was recently seen campaigning with a

2:44.3

unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombings. And we know that George Soros and the

2:49.7

Open Society foundations are very much,

2:52.8

you know, their network is involved in the Zoroamundani campaign. And, you know, I have questions

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there because New York City, we still are haunted by the memory of 9-11, that terrorism is no

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