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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo joins 'America's Newsroom' to challenge frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda and discuss the 'civil war' within the Democratic Party and President Trump's possible involvement in the rac

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00:009.30 in New York, and all of America is going to be watching this city in 15 days.

00:05Got over two weeks to go until Election Day, and the gloves between the three candidates

00:09for mayor are officially coming off.

00:13This is about the future of New York and saving New York City.

00:18Curtis Sliwa is not an alternative.

00:21He is not a viable candidate.

00:23You vote for Curtis, you may as well vote for Zoran Mandami directly.

00:27As we heard from Andrew Cuomo, it's, oh, elect me, and I'll save you from Zoran Mandami.

00:31They created Zoran Mandami.

00:34They got to live with Zoran Mandami.

00:36I'm the only one who can beat Zoran Mandami.

00:38I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election.

00:43I can do those things on my own.

00:45Here are the three candidates.

00:47A recent Fox News poll found that Mamdani has a commanding 24-point lead over Andrew Cuomo

00:53with likely voters, 52-28, Sliwa comes in third at 14%.

00:58Andrew Cuomo, former governor, running as an independent, is here now.

01:02Thank you, sir, for your time today.

01:03Appreciate you coming on.

01:05Fifteen days and the clock's running.

01:07Appreciate you coming on today.

01:08Critics of your campaign say it has lacked energy.

01:13That has lacked imagination.

01:19Time's running down.

01:20How do you change that in two weeks?

01:24Good to be with you, Bill.

01:25I don't think it's, I don't think those accusations are fair.

01:31We are out there.

01:32I'm out there every day in every community.

01:34I'm at the opening of an envelope.

01:37And I think when New Yorkers start to focus on this race, they're actually going to focus

01:42on the facts.

01:43And it's very clear what is happening here.

01:47This is still an ongoing civil war within the Democratic Party where you have this extreme

01:53radical left.

01:56That's what Zoran Mandami represents.

01:59They are socialists.

02:01They are anti-business.

02:03They are anti-police.

02:04They're anti-law and order.

02:07They are anti-Israel.

02:09And I am a quote-unquote moderate Democrat.

02:14I want to create jobs.

02:16I want to enforce the law, improve the quality of life.

02:21Also, I have the experience and the record and the competence to actually do the job.

02:27I was governor for 11 years.

02:28I was housing and urban development secretary under Bill Clinton.

02:31I was attorney general.

02:33I know how to govern.

02:34And the far left doesn't even think about how to govern.

02:39You know, Zoran Mandami never had a job.

02:43Thirty-four years old, he's been an assemblyman.

02:45He passed three bills, worst attendance record in the New York State Assembly.

02:48They don't get that being mayor means you have to operate, you have to manage.

02:55Any given morning, there could be a storm, there could be a shooting.

02:59God forbid there could be a terrorist attack.

03:01So it's that civil war on the Democratic side.

03:05Okay.

03:05Now, I want to run through a number of things here.

03:07So give me a chance to get in there and we'll cover a lot of ground here, okay?

03:10The city's budget's roughly, what, $120 billion?

03:14Mandami suggested in the debate last week he wouldn't have cut anything.

03:18What would you cut from $120 billion?

03:21Yeah, well, Mandami is a socialist Democrat.

03:28His answer is always the same.

03:30Tax business, tax the rich, raise taxes, raise taxes, provide everything free.

03:38Free transportation, free food, free, free, free.

03:41New Yorkers know there is no free.

03:43You keep taxing businesses and wealthy people in New York City.

03:48There will be nobody left, Bill.

03:51They're leaving already.

03:53They've been leaving since COVID.

03:55So that's exactly wrong.

03:57I was governor for 11 years.

03:59My fiscal discipline, we had a 2% growth cap.

04:03My budget wouldn't go up more than 2% year to year for 11 years,

04:07which is lower than the growth under Republican governors.

04:12So I get fiscal discipline, and we have to live within our means.

04:17The answer is not raising taxes in New York.

04:20It's ridding the budget of the waste and abuse that is in it.

04:26So you see some waste in the budget.

04:28You weren't specific on that, but you pivoted to taxes.

04:32So I'll ask you, will you commit right now that you won't raise taxes on New Yorkers?

04:37Yeah, we can raise taxes, Bill.

04:39We can't.

04:40But they have been raised to a level where we're not competitive.

04:47Post-COVID, people have mobility.

04:51You are now competing geographically in a way you never did before.

04:56As I said, I was the HUD secretary.

04:57I worked with cities all across the nation.

05:00You now have cities competing.

05:01New York is competing with Texas, with Florida, South Carolina.

05:08And people will shop economics.

05:13And if New York City is too expensive, crime is a problem, quality of life is a problem,

05:20you lose the competition.

05:22So, no, you can't raise taxes, make the city safer, make it more affordable, reduce taxes.

05:28He is a Democratic Socialist.

05:31You want to run New York City.

05:33Do you consider yourself a capitalist?

05:35Yes.

05:39Plain and simple.

05:41There was a suggestion that you had a...

05:42I'm an American.

05:43Yeah, there was a suggestion recently that you had a hard time answering that question.

05:47I just want to make sure it's clear.

05:48Let's move on to this.

05:49You told the New York Post over the weekend you would keep the police commissioner, Tish James, in her job.

05:55Mamdani has not gone that far.

05:58But at the end of last week, he met with an imam in Brooklyn, a local Islamic leader,

06:03who had ties to the terror attacks at the World Trade Center in 1993.

06:08He said people are picking on him because of his faith.

06:12What do you suggest from that visit?

06:14What do you take away from that?

06:16Why do you do it?

06:18Yeah.

06:20Mamdani, it's simple.

06:22Let's keep it simple here.

06:25He is a Democratic Socialist.

06:28Democratic Socialists believe in defunding the police.

06:32Those words came out of his mouth.

06:35That the NYPD is wicked, corrupt, racist, a threat to public safety.

06:41We should abolish jails.

06:44We should stop enforcing misdemeanors.

06:47We should legalize prostitution.

06:49This is his platform from his mouth.

06:53No exaggeration.

06:56You couldn't make that up.

06:58That's who he is.

07:00He's anti-Israel.

07:02So, yes, he has leaned into the anti-Israel issue so heavily, it was probably the strongest reason why people voted for him in the primary.

07:15Young people, because he's a socialist and this is utopia, and because he's anti-Israel.

07:23So he doesn't shy away from anti-Israel, he leans into it.

07:27He will not denounce globalized intifada, which means kill all Jewish people.

07:33Bill, if that's about anyone else, kill all black people, kill all Italian people, there would be an outrage.

07:40But kill all Jewish people, that's okay.

07:45Okay, so there is the debate on Wednesday night.

07:49You're going to have another opportunity going face-to-face with him on this.

07:52You'll also have an opportunity with Curtis Lee.

07:54We talked to him on Friday.

07:56He was here on our program.

07:57He says he's not getting out.

07:58He says you go out and find the votes if you want to win.

08:01He said something similar.

08:03Nate Freeman on Sunday.

08:05Roll this from that show online.

08:07This is the result of the Democrats' self-destruction.

08:11So I'm supposed to help them?

08:14How come they don't help themselves?

08:17Andrew Cuomo failed everybody in that primary.

08:20He even admitted it.

08:21Now he's basically saying, I can't win without Slewa votes.

08:25Where are your votes?

08:27Go out, get your own votes.

08:28Give you a chance to answer that.

08:29But last week, the New York Times also reported that Eric Adams was ready to endorse you.

08:35Have you spoken to Eric Adams?

08:37Do you expect that to happen?

08:40Okay, second question.

08:42First, the Curtis Slewa was put on.

08:48Nobody voted for Curtis Slewa.

08:50He was put on the ballot by the Republican chairpeople.

08:55He's a perpetual mayoral candidate.

08:58He's really a shock jock on local radio.

09:01He's never been in government.

09:03He has no relevant experience.

09:06He runs basically a defunct organization that is highly troubled and problematic.

09:12So, but he does take a certain number of votes.

09:18And to that extent, he is a spoiler.

09:21I believe he's ultimately irrelevant because he's not a viable candidate.

09:26And I don't people think, I don't think people are going to throw away their vote bill.

09:29It's between me and a socialist and you pick it.

09:32I've heard that before, but just cut through it in an instant time.

09:35We've got about 30 seconds left here.

09:36Will Eric Adams endorse you, yes or no?

09:41I've spoken to the mayor and we're still talking.

09:44Okay, last question.

09:46President Trump told Maria over the weekend he has not made a decision on endorsing.

09:50Would you want that endorsement?

09:52Would that help you or hurt you in this race?

09:54I'm running as an independent, so I wouldn't ask for President Trump's endorsement.

10:02I don't want to accept endorsements like that.

10:06I think President Trump is analyzing the polls and he says Cuomo is the only person who has

10:12a chance to beat Mondami, which is what the polls say.

10:16And he says Curtis Sliwa basically is inconsequential, which is also what the polls say.

10:21Governor, thanks for coming on.

10:23A civil war within the Democratic Party.

10:25That might be where we're headed.

10:27We'll see you in time.

10:28Thank you, sir.

10:28We hope to speak again over the next two weeks.

10:31Thank you for coming on.

10:32Thanks, Bill.

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