
David Freedlander
Features Writer and Political Columnist at New York Magazine
Political Columnist & Features Writer, @NYMag
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1 month ago |
nymag.com | David Freedlander
The mayoral endorsement of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be one of the most arduous to get. For the past few months, the campaigns of several hopefuls have had to submit polling and strategy memos to her team, outlining how they plan to beat Andrew Cuomo.
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1 month ago |
nymag.com | David Freedlander
President Donald Trump waded into the murky waters of New York Republican politics on Wednesday, when, seemingly out of the blue, he posted two "Truths" to the social-media site he owns. In the first, he gave his "Complete and Total Endorsement" to the re-election of Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a MAGA die-hard who has thrilled the Republican faithful with his culture war battles on immigration and transgender athlete bans.
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1 month ago |
nymag.com | David Freedlander
One-hundred days into the Trump administration and the left flank of the Democratic Party delivered a message to its politicians: Do something or risk a tea-party-like revolt from within your own ranks.
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2 months ago |
nymag.com | David Freedlander
Last Friday, Zellnor Myrie, a state senator from Brooklyn and candidate for mayor, held a press conference announcing how he would take the fight to Donald Trump if he wins in November. Four days later, Comptroller Brad Lander hosted a 300-person town hall in Brooklyn on the same topic, and the day after that Scott Stringer announced his own plan.
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2 months ago |
nymag.com | David Freedlander
They were, in many cases, Donald Trump 's most fervent backers: rich Wall Street types, lawyers at corporate firms, business tycoons, and tech engineers who fervently backed the president by raising and donating many millions of dollars for his election, risking the opprobrium of their fellow moneyed elites.
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Take it with as many grains of salt as you wish, but hearing there will be more polls out this week that are more in alignment with this than w/ the WFP poll that showed a 2-pt race

And a more recent Cuomo internal gives the former gov more breathing room Andrew Cuomo 56 Zorhan Mamdani 44 https://t.co/wwE7Bo1b7H

That WFP poll from yesterday could have the effect of driving some fence-sitters to Cuomo

NEW: @MikeBloomberg - an adversary of @andrewcuomo during their overlapping tenures, has endorsed him over @ZohranKMamdani in the mayor's race. https://t.co/yNlftGw1oe

Newest @ZohranKMamdani mailer takes on public safety https://t.co/H7zKX7WxEt