Anti-Mamdani super PAC evokes 'communist' label as Cuomo seeks GOP voters in NYC mayoral race
A couple of anti-Zohran Mamdani super PACs are deploying increasingly Red-baiting ads about him in the final days of the New York City mayoral race as part of a broader effort to persuade conservative voters to line up behind independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in next week’s election.
On Monday, Defend NYC, a super PAC that’s advocating for Cuomo and against Mamdani, dropped $250,000 on an anti-Mamdani text message blast to local voters that quoted President Trump, new disclosures show.
“President Trump weighed in! He said what we already know: This race is between Andrew Cuomo or Zohran Mamdani and Cuomo is the ONLY choice for mayor. Cuomo is flawed but we have to do our civic duty and vote for him to stop communism from coming to NYC,” reads the text blast, which also included a video clip of Trump deriding Mamdani as “a Communist.”
The text spree appears to be the first ad from a major pro-Cuomo super PAC broadcasting Trump’s incorrect claim about Mamdani being a Communist. Mamdani, who has polled as the clear favorite to win next Tuesday’s mayoral election, is a democratic socialist.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/28/anti-mamdani-pac-evokes-communist-label-as-cuomo-seeks-gop-voters-in-nyc-mayoral-race/