Just two days before early voting starts in the New York City mayoral race, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo seemed to agree with a radio host who suggested that Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani would be “cheering” if a terrorist attack occurred.
“That job is a scary job. You wake up as mayor, you wake up as governor, any morning there’s a prison uprising, there was just a mass shooting, there’s Legionnaires’ disease, there’s gonna be a fiscal collapse, Wall Street’s moving to doubt. Any given morning there’s a crisis,” Cuomo said on Sid Rosenberg’s “Sid & Friends In The Morning.” “And people’s lives are at stake—God forbid another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?”
Rosenberg replied, “I could. He’d be cheering.”
“That’s another problem,” Cuomo said. “But can you imagine that

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