Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared to laugh briefly and agree with a radio host who said during an interview yesterday that Zohran Mamdani would be “cheering” if “another 9/11” happened on his watch.
During an appearance on Sid Rosenberg’s “Sid & Friends In The Morning,” a radio show on WABC, New York City mayoral hopeful Cuomo lambasted Mamdani for lacking experience. Cuomo said the 34-year-old state assemblyman, the Democratic nominee and front-runner in the mayoral race, doesn’t have a track record of dealing with the type of crises that executive officers like mayors and governors face — and have faced in the past.
“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,” Cuomo said in the interview. “And people’s lives are at stake — God forbid another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?”
At this point, Rosenberg jumped in, replying: “I could, he’d be cheering,” with a laugh.