Announcing Cuomo endorsement, NYC Mayor Eric Adams says Mamdani doesn’t care about Jews

Announcing Cuomo endorsement, NYC mayor Adams says Mamdani doesn’t care about Jews

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announces his endorsement of his former rival, former governor Andrew Cuomo, at a press conference.

Adams first announced his plan to back Cuomo in an interview with The New York Times released earlier today.

Adams and Cuomo appear together at a press conference in Harlem to officially announce the endorsement, with Adams saying that an array of groups, such as immigrants and Black people, are “under attack” in the city.

“When you tell Jewish residents that you need ‘globalize intifada,’ you’re saying you don’t care,” Adams says.

Mamdani defended the phrase “Globalize the intifada” in an interview earlier this year, then later said he would “discourage” the slogan after coming under massive pressure.

Adams also decries “Islamic extremism.” Mamdani, if elected, would be the city’s first Muslim mayor.

“You see what’s playing out in other countries because of Islamic extremism. Not Muslims let’s not mix this up, but those Islamic extremists that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings, and that’s what I’m fighting for,” Adams says.

He brands Mamdani as a “snake oil salesman that has sold us a bill of goods” and “the king of the gentrifiers.”

Cuomo says that Mamdani, who identifies as a democratic socialist, is not really a Democrat.

“Democrats do not propose antisemitic policies. Democrats have always stood with Israel as an ally. That’s what Democrats do,” he says.

“Democrats are also uniters, not dividers, and there’s been too much division from Zohran’s campaign. You’ve seen it with the Jewish community,” he says.