New York City’s mayoralty has become contested turf in an unlikely proxy war over the extent of the Trump movement’s influence on American domestic politics. The Justice Department’s intervention on Mayor Eric Adams’s behalf — but only as long as he remains helpful to the administration’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration — ensured that. Adams’s political fate and the success of Trump’s efforts to pursue his anti-“weaponization” agenda are now closely linked. Democrats have an opportunity here to demonstrate that they’re willing to live up to their self-set values. So far, they’re blowing it.
On Monday, the New York Post revealed that the idiosyncratic congressman from the South Bronx, Ritchie Torres, had endorsed the unannounced but widely anticipated bid of disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor. “We don’t need a Mr. Nice Guy. We need a Mr. Tough Guy,” Torres said of Cuomo. The congressman dismissed the multiple competing scandals that engulfed the former governor and led to his 2021 resignation, saying that he had no interest in “relitigating” the past. “I predict the comeback story of the 2025 election will be the resurrection of Andrew Cuomo,” Torres added. “America loves a comeback, New York loves a comeback.”
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