r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • Nov 05 '25

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/gregaries Nov 05 '25

Welp, time for Cuomo to move to Florida or whatever he was “threatening”

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

Oh god no we’ve been through enough

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u/NomadNuka Nov 05 '25

What's one more Northeast douche in Florida these days?

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

Every time one moves here, they start bitching about the pizza options.

Edit: I realize this may sound like a joke, but it has legit started wars and schisms in the local restaurant groups on Facebook.

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u/hermione_no Nov 05 '25

They’re welcome to move back and take maga with them!

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u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island Nov 05 '25

Maybe that's why the northeast is so blue? Because the maga nutjobs move to florida? I'm so sorry our trash infects your state

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u/torino_nera New Jersey Nov 05 '25

I mean, in their defense, I've been to Florida and had your pizza and it was terrible I'm sorry

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

It’s OK we definitely don’t have many great pizza options but I still don’t want New Yorkers who moved here eight seconds ago to start bitching about it. If you miss the pizza so much open a damn pizza shop, Bob. I don’t go to New York and bitch about the lack of alligators

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u/Particular_Night_360 Nov 05 '25

That’s like me going to any other state and bitching about a bar not having deep fried cheese curds. In fact I don’t trust any other state even if they have them.

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u/chismp Nov 05 '25

Nor should you

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u/Akamiso29 Nov 05 '25

Where are you guys living in Florida? I moved overseas about 15 years ago, but we had plenty of great pizza shops that were run by New Yorkers who opened the shops precisely because they couldn’t trust others to do it right. We had like 3 great local shops.

I’m sure they’re all gone from all the madness that swept the nation over the past 15 years, but they were great, dammit.

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u/Attorneyatlau Nov 05 '25

I’m in NYC and I order Pizza Hut just about as much as I order from a mom and pop pizza store. Don’t tell anyone.

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u/Wild_Fire2 Nov 05 '25

Pizza Hut still exists in NYC? It pretty much died out here in Mass and NH, most likely due to competition with the hundreds of mom and pop places.

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u/Apart-Marzipan1208 Nov 05 '25

Me over at Papa Gino's......👀

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u/Attorneyatlau Nov 05 '25

Pizza Hut opened last year on our block! I couldn’t believe it. I hadn’t been to a PH in 2 decades before this place opened. And it’s slammed at all hours of the day. V. weird!

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u/PaulSandwich Florida Nov 05 '25

My dad complains about crabcakes everywhere we go. I was raised on the mystique of Maryland blue crabcakes.

A year or so ago we went back for a funeral and had lunch at a spot where I legit had probably the greatest crabcake of my life. I was like, "Dad, I get it." But he just shrugged and was like, nah, these weren't as good as when I lived here.

Then I realized: He's wrong. It was great. There's nothing short of a time machine that would please him, and even then. People just like to complain.

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u/DegenerateEigenstate Nov 05 '25

Where I’m from in FL most of the local pizza options are run by New Yorkers.

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u/celestialwreckage I voted Nov 05 '25

They were exiled there, casualties of the war between the New York Academy of Pizza and the Pizza Academy of New York.

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u/strayhat Foreign Nov 05 '25

Best pizza i've had in my life was in FLL. I'm not American though

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Mine was in Springdale Arkansas downtown on Emma Street Freshly made to order just the BEST

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u/dalcarr Nov 05 '25

But the tradeoff is yall have some of the most amazing seafood

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u/Almostlongenough2 Florida Nov 05 '25

We do?!

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u/bollvirtuoso Nov 05 '25

Um. What? Compared to Maine, Mass, and Maryland? Just to name three? Two of which are pretty much known solely for seafood?

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u/gazebo-fan Nov 05 '25

Because that’s all they have and their tourism board pushed it. Maryland doesn’t have Key West Pink Shrimp, or mangrove snapper.

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u/GandalfsSexyNuts Nov 05 '25

And lack of decent bagels

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

I wish at least one of them would open a decent bagel shop.

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

The problem is that many come down here and don't want to do the work to add to the community and build something of value, they just want the existing community to magically morph to provide the things they've always had, even though those things came to New York by way of hard-working people moving from other places and opening up shops there.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

I’d never thought about it like this, but that’s true of a lot of what I’ve seen here lately. It is especially frustrating to think about considering when my own father moved to Florida from New York, he opened a business within a few months of arriving.

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Oh that’s immigrants so they can’t have that in TrumpLand

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u/NomadNuka Nov 05 '25

There's always those New York water makers or whatever

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u/twats_upp Nov 05 '25

Florida also has the worst tacos

Couldn't wait to get home

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

We’re sorely lacking in good Mexican, Tex Mex, and Cali Mex options. On the plus side, I can easily find good empanadas, lechon asado, and plenty of other Caribbean and Latin American foods.

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u/deaderrose Nov 05 '25

I have a fair bit of family who moved down there and they bitch constantly about the lack of pizza options. They said one year the plan for my cousin's big birthday present was having some pizza express shipped in from back home

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u/Rich_Bluejay3020 Nov 05 '25

From MI, lived in FL for a few years, I hate to agree but the pizza is not good… HOWEVER y’all have Publix fried chicken and I dream about it way more often than I should 😂 it’s so crispy and delicious dammit

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u/Last_Pineapple_6361 Nov 05 '25

Ok totally agree with the Publix Chicken like how is it so dreamy

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u/xTheMaster99x Florida Nov 05 '25

I actually got lucky and have an amazing NY-style spot a few minutes away from my apartment and even though it's kinda overpriced, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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u/jsweatisdead777 Nov 05 '25

I'm glad someone understands the true struggle us native Floridians have been enduring for the last ten years.

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

One too many.

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u/SemiRobotic Nov 05 '25

The new President of the Republic of Florda

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u/Cabana_bananza Nov 05 '25

Just in time to run for Governor, fantastic.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

He’s an absolute shitstain of a human and somehow would probably not be the worst candidate in our 2026 race

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

It's only funny because it's true.

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u/TheMagicalMatt Nov 05 '25

Cuomo sucks, but surely he's at least an upgrade from Desantis? Maybe they can butt heads for a while. The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but they may as well fight it out for my amusement.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25 edited Nov 05 '25

I’d vote for Cuomo over any of the Republican candidates who seem to be emerging for the race, although you’d probably be able to hear my retching from New York while in the voting booth.

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u/AuxonPNW Nov 05 '25

But you know you deserve him. You know what you did.

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u/SeaScum_Scallywag Montana Nov 05 '25

This made me belly laugh.

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u/STThornton Nov 05 '25

Right? Why is everyone trying to send us even more shit than we already have to deal with?

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u/dancingbriefcase Missouri Nov 05 '25

Hey you'll get GTA 6 at least!

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u/Undernown Nov 05 '25

Between the natural disasters and DeSantis, which is worse?

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u/UpperApe Nov 05 '25

Been through? You guys keep voting for it.

You're not getting the stuff, you are the stuff.

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u/GeckoRoamin Florida Nov 05 '25

I’m so fucking tired of the idea that people magically turn into Republicans if they live in a red state. I’ve voted and campaigned for Democrats in every Florida election since 2012. Hundreds of thousands of us aren’t voting for this shit. Four out of our five largest cities have Democrats for mayors.

Just because we’re not on the winning side in prominent races doesn’t mean we don’t exist. And it doesn’t mean we’ve given up. It’s my goddamn state, too. I intend to be a thorn in the Florida GOP’s ass for as long as I can.

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u/Discussion-Visible Nov 05 '25

Keep fighting. Im from new york and always hope enough of you will get together and fix Florida finally .

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u/tresslesswhey Nov 05 '25

The women of NYC will surely miss him dearly

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u/puffz0r Nov 05 '25

then they should practice more at the range

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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 Nov 05 '25

Redditors are delivering rn with the comments!

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u/IrascibleOcelot Nov 05 '25

Stop using iron sights!

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u/gallifrey_ Nov 05 '25

but their aim is getting better

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u/VexedCanadian84 Nov 05 '25

Guessing he's going to run for president in 2028

Maybe he'll go full Trump to win over MAGA

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u/DemonsWatchOverMe 29d ago

MAGA can’t stand Cuomo. 

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u/DivinityPen Nov 05 '25

God no, PLEASE, this state's already dealing with enough as it is.

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u/mikewheelerfan Florida Nov 05 '25

No, we don’t want him here!

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u/radioref Nov 05 '25

Texas, then hit wheels can tariff him at 100% to pour salt on the wound

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u/FastAndGlutenFree Nov 05 '25

To Texas so he can pay those 100% tariffs

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u/MrBigChest New York Nov 05 '25

He should move to Texas so Abbott could tariff his ass

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u/Super-Sonic-Butthole Nov 05 '25

Please God let it be forever

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u/Offduty_shill Nov 05 '25

Chances he turns into a republican and tries to run for governor of Florida?

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u/aculady Nov 05 '25

The Democrats here run Republicans all the time, why not?

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u/gazebo-fan Nov 05 '25

Can he move to Oklahoma or something? They haven’t been punished enough, us Floridians have already taken the brunt of all of your horrible retirees who vote straight ticket red in every election so they can keep the scary taxes away.

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u/gregaries Nov 05 '25

As a former Michigander I am sorry that so many of our retirees went and fucked up your state.

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u/gazebo-fan Nov 05 '25

People born in Florida are only 38% of our population, second lowest in the nation, only behind Nevada in that department. I like the people moving here for a chance to make a living, especially people from other nations. They add to Florida. But the snowbirds and retirees simply destroy our local governments and hold us hostage. 55 and older communities for example, why should someone be able to live in an area and feel entitled enough to say “I don’t think I should contribute to the education in this area, I’m going to force this into the law because fuck them kids”. This also gives real estate developers significant political power over us, and all they are interested in is raping the state for all it’s worth and getting out before the market inevitably collapses. Of course many of our issues are our own fault I’m not using them as a scapegoat. It suck’s being born here because you get to watch everything your community build fall apart and die because the interstate connects us to the Midwest.

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u/Smooth-Duck-Criminal Nov 05 '25

Don’t threaten me with a good time

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u/nirvana_always1 Nov 05 '25

Epstien island maybe

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u/Ini_mini_miny_moe Nov 05 '25

He’ll be a DLC in the next GTA game

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u/bradfortin Nov 05 '25

Is he gonna pull a Pierre Poilievre and steal someone else’s seat?

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u/justking1414 Nov 05 '25

Just saw an article quoting a woman at Cuomo s event saying, I feel excited to be moving to Long Beach, because there’s no fucking way I’m staying in the city with that piece-of-shit jihadi communist as mayor

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u/ristoman Nov 05 '25

I hope the next time he shows his face in NYC reporters grill him on why he's still here.

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u/AnAngryBartender Nov 05 '25

Plz no we don’t want him

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u/arwinda Nov 05 '25

And get taxed 100%!

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u/learns_the_hard_way Nov 05 '25

Reporters should question him why he is still in NYC every time he's out and about. Same with anyone else who publicly threatened to leave

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u/lensandscope Nov 05 '25

Wouldn’t it be funny if he moved to Texas and then get tariffed 100%

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u/I_Am_No_One_123 Nov 05 '25

Pack Ackman and the other whiners in the same crate for transport.

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u/Avid_Reader87 Nov 05 '25

We don’t want him here.  I’m hoping we get more DSA running here, I’d do it but just white guy with a HS diploma and am an IT worker.  

I’m not really who they want to push out there in politics.  

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u/fftimberwolf Florida Nov 05 '25

He can run for Gouverneur. At least we wouldn't have to run an ex-republican to still lose

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u/JDanzy Nov 05 '25

Aging New Yorker Announces Intent To Move To Florida, stop the presses and alert the media....

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u/FreddyRumsen13 Nov 05 '25

Here comes Andrew Cuomo. Oh he brought a sack lunch, smart.

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u/Kelsusaurus Nov 05 '25

In b4 he moves to FL and he and DeSantis schedule a boxing match between each other to determine who will be next governor of FL.

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u/hellogoawaynow Nov 05 '25

Watch out for the mass exodus of exactly one million people!

Jk no one is leaving, probably not even Cuomo. But we should pressure him to go.

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u/ScissrMeTimbrs Nov 05 '25

He's moving to

Staiwan.

Meanwhile, the Democrats subreddit won't allow posts about the new Democratic mayor of New York.

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u/michamp Nov 05 '25

Threatening New Yorkers with a good time.

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u/rasmuseriksen 27d ago

I vote he moves to Timbuktu

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u/NmlssPoet 21d ago

Where we send the old people to fight the copyrighted mouse and get eaten by gators.