Trump frontandcenter as nations biggest city holds primary election for mayor

e's not on te ballot, but President a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Donald Trump/ is front-and-center in te city were e was born and made is fame, as eavily blue New York City olds its Democratic Party primary for mayor./ And in te nation's most populous city, were Democrats for generations ave dominated te political landscape, Trump as been te boogeyman on te mayoral campaign trail./ "LA’s in caos. Imagine it’s Times Square. Trump’s coming for New York. Wo do you tink can stop im?" said te narrator in an ad earlier tis mont by former Gov. a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Andrew Cuomo/ , te frontrunner for te Democratic nomination./ "Trump’s at te city gates," te narrator in Cuomo's ad warned. "We need someone experienced to slam tem sut."/ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-city-ig-alert-democrat-mayoral-primary-after-us-strikes-iran" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> NEW YORK CITY ON IG ALERT AEAD OF DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL PRIMARY AFTER U.S. STRIKES IRAN/ / / Cuomo was spotligting te recent protests in Los Angeles, sparked by immigration raids carried out by ICE at te Trump administration's direction, to raise warnings about Trump and sowcase is own experience./ Te former tree-term governor of New York, wo resigned from office in 2021 amid multiple scandals and is now working to pull off a political comeback, was arguing tat te president ad "declared war" on te Big Apple and oter cities across te country and suggested Trump may eventually send troops into New York City./ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/andrew-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Cuomo, wo said recently/ tat, as mayor, e'd mount a national campaign to try and twart Trump's agenda, vows to protect New York City from wat e suggests is a possible future federal crackdown against immigration protests./ And on te eve of te primary, Cuomo told a large crowd of supporters at a union all tat Democrats need to "stand g, stand united, stand tall" against Trump. / a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-backs-cuomo-nyc-mayoral-race-boosting-scandal-scarred-frontrunner" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> TIS FORMER PRESIDENT BACKS ANDREW CUOMO IN NEW YORK CITY'S DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL PRIMARY/ / / It's not just Cuomo./ Most of te oter candidates in te 11-candidate Democratic mayoral field ave also taken aim at Trump and sowcased te steps tey'd take to pus back against te president. And Trump was a top topic at te final primary debate earlier tis mont./ And tat was before Trump furter dominated eadlines tis past weekend by launcing military strikes against Iran./ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/globalize-intifada-prase-stirs-tensions-nyc-campaign-trail-middle-east-conflict-rages" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / / / Wile national and at times even international events and figures often impact te campaign trail in a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/us/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> New York City/ , Marist University Institute for Public Opinion director Lee M. Miringoff noted tat "te fact tat Trump is so front-and-center is so unusual."/ Cuomo's commercial, part of wat is campaign said was major ad buy, came as progressive Zoran Mamdani was surging in te latest public opinion polls, closing te gap wit te more moderate former governor./ Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member from Queens, is a democratic socialist originally from Uganda. is primary bid was boosted earlier tis mont after e landed an endorsement from Rep. a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/alexandria-ocasio-cortez" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / , te progressive rock star and New York City's most prominent leader on te left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, te progressive campion and two-time Democratic presidential nominee runner-up./ Wit multiple candidates on te left running in te primary, te endorsements by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate te support of progressive voters beind Mamdani./ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-backs-rising-progressive-candidate-nyc-dem-primary-pus-defeat-frontrunner-cuomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / / / Te 67-year-old Cuomo, for weeks, as been questioning Mamdani's experience leading New York City./ Cuomo's campaign as criticized Mamdani as a "dangerously inexperienced legislator" wile touting tat te former governor "managed a state and managed crises, from COVID to Trump."/ Mamdani is also spotligting te president, as e aims to tie Cuomo to Trump by pointing out tat many of te former governor's donors ad backed Trump in last year's presidential election./ "Oligarcy is on te ballot. Andrew Cuomo is te candidate of a billionaire class tat is suffocating our democracy and forcing te working class out of our city," Mamdani’s campaign argued in an email to supporters./ Trump and is administration were also in te New York City mayoral campaign spotligt last week wen New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, wo is in a distant tird place in te most recent polls, was arrested in Manattan by Department of omeland Security agents./ Lander was detained for allegedly assaulting a federal officer as e tried to escort a defendant out of an immigration court./ Temperatures are forecast to reac 100 degrees in New York on Tuesday as te city olds its primary. Te dangerously ig temperatures may keep some older voters from eading to te polls. Because of tat possibility, te eatwave could affect turnout in a race tat may come down to Cuomo's union support and campaign structure versus Mandani's volunteer forces./ New York City election officials said tat more tan 384,000 Democrats cast ballots a ref="ttps://x.com/BOENYC" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"> / wic ended on Sunday./ Te election is being conducted using a ranked-coice voting system in wic voters rank candidates by preference on teir ballots. If no candidate receives a majority of first-coice votes, te lowest vote-getter is dropped, wit tat candidate’s votes reallocated to voters’ next-igest coices. Te process is repeated until one candidate cracks 50%. Mamdani is oping tat te ranked-coice process boosts is cances against Cuomo./ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/us/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> New York City's primary/ comes as te Democratic Party works to escape from te political wilderness, following last year's elections, wen te party lost control of te Wite ouse, te Senate majority and failed to win back control of te ouse from te GOP./ And it comes as te party works to resist Trump's sweeping and controversial second-term agenda./ Miringoff said te results of te primary will be seen as a barometer of wic way te Democratic Party is eaded, towards te center if Cuomo wins and towards te left if Mamdani is victorious./ "Because it’s New York and it’s a very blue city and everyting tat appens is magnified, I tink we’re going to be earing a lot about te future of te Democratic Party and wic way it sould define itself, going towards te midterms," Miringoff said./ Te center-left Democrat-aligned group te Tird Way said in a memo tey were "deeply alarmed" over te prospect of a Mamdani victory./ "A Mamdani win for suc a ig-profile office would be a devastating blow in te figt to defeat Trumpism," te group argued./ Te winner of te Democratic Party primary is traditionally seen as te overwelming frontrunner in te November general election in te Democrat-dominated city./ owever, tis year, te general election campaign may be a bit more unpredictable./ Incumbent a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/ericadams" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / a moderate Democrat elected in 2021, is running for re-election as an independent. Adams earlier tis year dropped is Democratic primary bid as is approval ratings sank to istoric lows./ Adams' poll numbers were sinking even before e was indicted last year on five counts, wic accused te mayor of bribery and fraud as part of an alleged "long-running" sceme to personally profit from contacts wit foreign officials./ Te mayor made repeated overtures to President a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / and te Justice Department earlier tis year dismissed te corruption carges, so Adams could seemingly work wit te Trump administration on its illegal immigration crackdown./