Donald Trump’s apparent intervention in New York’s mayoral race is great news for the anti– Zohran Mamdani forces only if the president has an actionable plan for dragging Curtis Sliwa , the Republican, off the GOP ballot line. If he doesn’t — and knowing Trump, he probably hasn’t thought much of this through — Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, will have far more fodder for his general-election campaign against Andrew Cuomo and the rest of the field .

The New York Times reported yesterday that Trump had discussed the mayoral race in a phone call with Cuomo, a politician he has known for many decades. The two men have long been at odds but share a Queens lineage — a decade apart in age, they grew up only a few miles from each other — and the awareness of what it’s like to ris

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