I’ve seen widely loathed radicals win mayoral races in Chicago and Los Angeles in dubious ways. The LA race that gave the city Mayor Karen Bass had a whole lot of late-arriving ballots show up just in time twice.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t believe that election was legitimate. I don’t believe this one in New York City, my two hometowns, was either.
Yes, ranked choice voting was designed to produce victories for fringe radicals. And yes, the media showered Zohran Mamdani with uncritical praise. Finally, putting up Cuomo, a widely hated figure, as the unifying anti-Zohran figure was the worst possible choice imaginable.
Sure.
But the polls I’ve seen showed Cuomo winning women, voters over 50, and black and Latino voters, and working class voters, while Mamdani performed well only with white young college educated voters.
NYC’s demographics have not tilted so dramatically that white hipsters are not a decided majority.
So two things might have happened here
- The polls were wrong. It’s happened before.
- The turnout for the Columbia for Hamas crowd might have been really high and really low for everyone else.
And those are the legitimate things. I don’t need to bother spelling out the illegitimate ones. But I don’t believe for one second this was a legitimate election. This was an election rigged by leftists in a series of ways, from ranked choice voting, to whatever actually happened today. It wouldn’t be the first time an election was stolen in the city. It won’t be the last. But it’s probably the first time it was stolen, not just by Communists, but by Islamic terrorists.