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Summer in the Hamptons is over — and for Wall Street fats cats, the schlep back to the metropolis has by no means been scarier.
The large wager amongst Big Apple energy brokers is when – not if – Eric Adams will drop out of the NYC mayor’s race, On The Money has discovered. But even with Adams gone from the crowded subject, alarms are growing that no one can stop the Maoist Zohran Mamdani from turning into mayor.
One large drawback: GOP hopeful Curtis Sliwa tells me he’s going nowhere, regardless of strain he will get from metropolis business leaders — and even President Trump.
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“NO spells NO, Charlie,” Sliwa DM’d me Thursday morning. “I now have $4 million in matching funds. The $ are flowing in. I’ve raised more in the last 2 quarters than Cuomo and Adams combined.”
Indeed, many of Adams’ prime Wall Street supporters sound exhausted. They inform me they count on the present mayor – together with his dismal ballot numbers and moral baggage – to step apart at any second. But that may not be enough to stop Mamdani mania amongst younger voters and rank-and-file Dems on this overwhelmingly Democratic metropolis.
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As reported, Adams would possibly take a job in the Trump administration or perhaps, based on one prime Wall Street govt, a assume tank (which if you already know Adams and his haphazard mayoralty, looks like an odd match). Speculation can be swirling that Adams has been supplied a personal sector gig by a fearful fats cat to drop out, someday subsequent week if not sooner.
Whatever he does, the thought is that with Adams gone, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo can have a clearer shot at Gracie Mansion and forestall a communist takeover of City Hall.
As for Sliwa, who is aware of what he’ll do if supplied the proper personal sector job by some hedge fund supervisor sweating the notion of a Mamdani mayoralty. But I do buy Sliwa’s sincerity when he tells me for like the one centesimal time he has no intentions of dropping out.
The thought is that with Adams gone, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo can have a clearer shot at Gracie Mansion and forestall a communist takeover of City Hall. Robert Miller
He additionally says that a minimum of up to now, no one in the White House is instantly pressuring him — or offering him a soft job such as you’re listening to about Adams.
One drawback for Sliwa is that dropping out can be pricey. The public money made accessible to candidates should be paid back if a candidate quits the race, and Sliwa has been a beneficiary of these “matching funds.”
That mentioned, people who know Sliwa say he’s not motivated by money and by no means was. It won’t matter if he too is obtainable a White House or personal sector sinecure to present up. The longtime activist for secure streets additionally believes he can win a three-way race towards Mamdani and Cuomo.
The fats cats have by no means been loopy about the notion of a wild-card populist like Curtis Sliwa working the show, although they like him to Mamdani. AP
The fats cats have by no means been loopy about the notion of a wild-card populist like Sliwa working the show, although they like him to Mamdani. The similar goes for Trump, who has had a sometimes-fraught relationship with Sliwa. Their drawback is once they crunch the ballot numbers, with Sliwa saying he’s in it, win or lose, a three-way race offers the edge to the Maoist.
As The Post solely reported Thursday, Trump advised billionaire NYC businessman John Catsimatidis that he’s fearful Mamdani will win a three-way race, and he needs each Adams and Sliwa to drop out.
Trump, regardless of his large properties in locations like Palm Beach, the home of Mar-a-Lago, nonetheless has important holdings in New York City real estate. So do people like Steve Witkoff, his particular diplomatic envoy. There are additionally the Kushners, whose real estate household business is run by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared.
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How this all unfolds is unclear. I ran the dropping-out hypothesis by a senior Adams’ adviser who labeled it “Cuomo bullshit.” Maybe, however I’m not listening to the buzz from the Cuomo peeps. It’s coming from financial backers of Adams who now see no path for him profitable in November.
Cuomo, polls show, can beat Mamdani in a head-to-head battle. But Wall Street and metropolis real estate sorts are at backside realists, and that’s why even with Trump now egging Adams and Sliwa to drop, they continue to be in a post-Labor Day gloomy temper. With Sliwa nonetheless in the race, pulling as a lot as 20% of the vote, Mamdani wins a three-way contest, and perhaps simply, business leaders fret.
A Mamdani mayoralty is a scary thought for the metropolis’s business neighborhood dominated by Wall Street and real estate. If you consider Mamdani’s previous statements, placing him in charge of the metropolis may result in huge tax will increase, defunding the police, government-run groceries – stuff that can completely upend what’s left of the NYC financial base that hasn’t decamped to Florida.
As one Wall Street money dude put it to me: “There is a silver lining here if Mamdani wins; property values on Long Island particularly in the Hamptons are going to soar.”
