Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo bashed socialist Zohran Mamdani by calling on him to evict himself from his rent-stabilized apartment.
Mamdani, the rising star of the far left who wants to be New York City's next mayor, is paying $2,300 a month thanks to rent-stabilization measures. This is despite the fact that Mamdani and his family are incredibly wealthy.
In a post to X, Cuomo lit Mamdani up by saying, "Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman [Zohran Mamdani], are occupying her rent-controlled apartment."
Cuomo is taking on Mamdani in New York City's mayoral race despite losing the primary to Mamdani. To do this, Cuomo opted to run his campaign as an independent and bank on uniting both center-left and center-right voters to form a coalition against socialist ideas.
Whatever the issues that voters may have with Cuomo and his checkered past, it's undeniable that Mamdani's occupation of rent-controlled housing is a blatant abuse of programs designed to help poor New Yorkers obtain apartments.
Mamdani has set himself up as a champion of the working class despite being incredibly wealthy with a six-figure income and international property ownership.
Furthermore, Mamdani is abusing housing programs to pay cheaper rent despite being more than capable of paying the market rate for housing in the Big Apple. It's a classic case of a wealthy elitist posing as a working-class champion while enjoying incredible wealth and privilege.
Cuomo didn't mince words in his X post saying, "No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich. Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it."
This means that Mamdani is paying nearly a thousand dollars under the median rent in New York City, which reached $3,397. That number has been steadily climbing and shot up by nearly $200 since 2024, thanks to steadily climbing demand and shrinking supply.
Cuomo finished his post by challenging Mamdani to "move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out."
It is a blatant abuse of the system that someone as wealthy as Mamdani is occupying housing meant for low-income New Yorkers. While many of Mamdani's ideas have resonated with voters, it is likely that Cuomo's exposure of Mamdani will greatly anger New Yorkers who are struggling to make ends meet.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the campaign to evict Mamdani, both from politics and his rent-controlled apartment, will likely fail. Mamdani implementing his disastrous socialist policies in one of America's biggest cities would undoubtedly damage Democrats ahead of the midterm elections.
Even with Cuomo's questionable past, having him as New York City's next mayor would avoid rocking the boat, and it would be business as usual in a leftist stronghold.
However, Mamdani could cause disaster after disaster that would be broadcasted to the nation ahead of the midterm elections and used to galvanize centrist voters into supporting the GOP to avoid more Mamdani's from ascending to power.
However, it seems unlikely that Mamdani can be stopped, so Democrats are going to have to deal with the disastrous optics when his socialist vision inevitably begins to crumble.
