“Democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear one of his rivals by association.
Yesterday the Democratic mayoral nominee claimed Wednesday that Andrew Cuomo recently spoke to President Trump by phone.
Mamdani claimed that the two men had been “conspiring about the fate of this city.”
For his part, former Gov. Cuomo has denied that he has even had a phone call with the president.
But so what if he had?
Is the president of the United States — a man who won the popular vote last November — so fringe that no candidate for mayor of New York should even speak with him?

That seems to be Mamdani’s view.
Keep away from fringe, wacko figures like, er, the president of this country.
But if Mamdani is so keen on guilt by non-association, why not apply the same standard to him?
To that end it would be good to know why Mamdani has been so happy to advocate for, associate with and even campaign alongside Mahmoud Khalil, formerly of Columbia University.
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