Source: Common Dreams
“‘Threatening voters and cities over their elections is what authoritarians do,’ said one progressive organizer Monday after US President Donald Trump did just that—suggesting he would rip federal funding away from New York City, and possibly the state, if democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the November election. The president’s threat came after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, announced her endorsement of Mamdani in an op-ed in The New York Times, after months of pressure from progressives. Trump said Hochul had ‘Endorsed the ‘Liddle Communist’’ and called the governor’s support ‘a rather shocking development. How can such a thing happen? … Washington will be watching this situation very closely. No reason to be sending good money after bad!'” (09/15/25)