Pollster Jim McLaughlin told Newsmax on Thursday that New York City voters are being forced to pick between a “failure” in former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a “socialist” with Democrat Zohran Mamdani in the city’s upcoming mayoral election.
“You just feel really sorry for the voters of New York that those are the choices, quite honestly, that they have in the mayor’s race,” McLaughlin, who was President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign pollster, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”
“I mean, it’s basically, you know, between a socialist and a failure,” he said, adding that Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “just hasn’t caught on with the electorate.”
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