Zohran Mamdani took an unprecedented beating during Wednesday night’s mayoral debate – but Wall Street is still bracing for the worst come Nov. 4, sources told On The Money.
Zohran Mamdani took an unprecedented beating during Wednesday night’s mayoral debate – but Wall Street is still bracing for the worst come Nov. 4, sources told On The Money.
The socialist firebrand got roasted by rivals Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa over everything from antisemitism to his pie-in-the-sky ideas about buses and the rent. The rivals also capitalized on Mamdani’s bizarre failure to take a position on key ballot initiatives – provoking groans from a TV audience.
Nevertheless, many of the city’s big business leaders skipped watching the debate altogether – fretting that it may be too little, too late to save the city from a Mamdani mayoralty.
“It helps Cuomo, but it doesn’t close a 10-point gap,” one well-placed Wall Streeter told The Post. “Unfortunately, we’re going to have a f–king Jew-hating socialist running this city barring a miracle.”
Assessing Cuomo’s manifold failures, the source added: “He’s just not likable; Sliwa is actually more likeable, but can’t win. It’s really sad.”
In other words, the CEOs of the city’s major financial companies have resigned themselves to “Maoist Mamdani.” Indeed, some say a self-proclaimed Marxist mayor won’t change the overall direction of the city beyond the socialism that rules it today.
They may have a point.
