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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

That’s another problem. But can you imagine that? If Mamdani was in the seat on 9/11, what would have happened in this city?

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

What a shocker. Once he takes a position, he'll change it anyway.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

What we want to do is just make sure New Yorkers know how important this election is and what’s at stake and get New Yorkers up and out to vote.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

And people’s lives are at stake — God forbid another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

Freeze the rent sounds great, yeah, it affects about 25% of the number of housing units in the city of New York.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 23, 2025

Trump has finally, for once, listened to reason – and heard what we have been saying from the beginning.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

You are going to have to confront him, and you can beat him. I confronted him, and I have beaten him.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

That job is a scary job. You wake up as mayor, you wake up as governor, any morning there’s a prison uprising, there was just a mass shooting, there’s Legionnaires’ disease, there’s gonna be a fiscal collapse, Wall Street’s moving to doubt, any given morning there’s a crisis.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

Any given morning, there's a crisis. And people's lives are at stake. God forbid, another 9/11. Can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

It’s just the old political blather, Mr. Mamdani.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

Zohran is not a Democrat. Democratic socialist is a different thing. It shouldn't even have the word 'democratic' in front of it. They are socialists.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2025

I’ve had a lot of dealings with President Trump, and there’s only one way to deal with him. He puts his finger in your chest, and you have to put your finger right back in his chest.

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Oct 22, 2025

The Trump administration has indicated to New York that it will not allow states to distribute federal funding for SNAP recipients.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 22, 2025

It’s just the old political blather, Mr. Mamdani.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 22, 2025

He sends out masked men, he sends out Border Patrol. He sends out ICE, creates anxiety and fear in the community, so that he can lay claim to solving for that by sending in the Guard in the first place.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 22, 2025

I am currently reluctant to impose rigid reporting requirements about operational details on this sector.

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