Direct answer: President Donald Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo for New York City mayor in the 2025 race. Context and nuance:
- The endorsement occurred on the eve of the NYC mayoral election, with Trump urging voters to support Cuomo over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic socialist front-runner. This aligned Cuomo as the favored candidate in Trump’s view, and Trump suggested that a vote for Cuomo would be preferable to a Mamdani-led administration.
- Coverage noted that Mamdani led in polls at the time, and Trump’s endorsement was a high-profile intervention in a contest that also featured Republican Curtis Sliwa in the race. Trump framed Mamdani as a “communist” and warned about federal funding implications if Mamdani won.
- Reactions and summaries across outlets questioned whether the endorsement would help Cuomo or backfire by energizing Mamdani supporters, given the charged political dynamics in a city with a strong progressive bloc.
If you’d like, I can pull and summarize more sources or provide a quick timeline of the endorsements and key statements from each campaigns.
