New York town hall candidates use Trump as Boogeyman in the Houleuse Democratic primary

He is not on the ballot, but President Donald Trump is frontal in the city where he was born and made his fame, because strongly Blue New York City holds his primary of the Democratic Party for the Mayor.

And in the most populous city in the country, where Democrats for generations have dominated the political landscape, Trump was the Boogeyman on the mayor’s campaign track.

“East in chaos. Imagine it’s Times Square. Trump comes for New York. Who can you think about it?” said the narrator in an announcement earlier this month by former governor Andrew Cuomo, the favorite of democratic appointment.

“Trump is at the gates of the city,” said the narrator of Cuomo’s announcement. “We need someone to experience them.”

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President Donald Trump, seen in the east room of the White House on June 12, 2025, is frontal on the campaign campaign in the race for the appointment to the mayor of the New York Democratic Party. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo)

Cuomo highlighted the recent demonstrations in Los Angeles, triggered by immigration raids carried out by ice in the direction of the Trump administration, to raise warnings on Trump and present his own experience.

The former governor with three mandates from New York, who resigned from his duties in 2021 in the midst of several scandals and now endeavors to carry out a political return, argued that the president had “declared war” on the big apple and other cities across the country and suggested that Trump could finally send troops to New York.

Cuomo, who recently said that as mayor, he had set up a national campaign to try to thwart Trump’s agenda, promises to protect New York from what he suggests is a possible federal repression against immigration demonstrations.

And on the eve of the primary, Cuomo told a large crowd of supporters in a union hall that Democrats need to stand up, stand up, stand up “against Trump.

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The former governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, the favorite of the primary race of the town hall of the New York Democratic Party, talks to a large crowd of union supporters, the day before, on June 23, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser / Fox News)

It’s not just Cuomo.

Most of the other candidates in the Democrat mayor of 11 candidates also targeted Trump and presented the measures they would take to postpone the president. And Trump was a leading subject during the final final debate at the beginning of the month.

And it was before Trump still made the headlines last weekend by launching military strikes against Iran.

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While national and sometimes even international events and figures often have an impact on the campaign path in New York, the director of the Marist University Institute, Lee Mr. Miringoff, noted that “the fact that Trump is so front-past is so unusual”.

Cuomo’s advertising, part of what his campaign said, was a major advertising purchase, came when Zohran Mamdani progressive increased the last polls in public opinion, filling the gap with the more moderate former governor.

Zohran Mamdani, an assembly of New York State and candidate for the Democratic Socialist Mayor for New York, reduced the gap with frontrunner and former governor Andrew Cuomo before the primary of the mayor of the Democratic Party of June 24, 2025. (Bing Guan / Reuters)

Mamdani, member of the Queens’ 33 -year -old assembly, is a Democratic socialist from Uganda. Its main offer was stimulated earlier this month after winning an approval from the representative. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Progressive Rock Star and the most eminent leader in New York on the left, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive champion and the second candidate for the Democratic presidential election.

With several candidates on the left in the primary, the approvals of Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate the support of progressive voters behind Mamdani.

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Cuomo, 67, for weeks, has been questioning Mamdani’s experience leading to New York.

Cuomo’s campaign criticized Mamdani as a “dangerously inexperienced legislator” “while praising that the former governor” managed a state and managed crises, from Covid to Trump “.

Mamdani also highlights the president because he aims to bind Cuomo to Trump, stressing that many donors from the former governor supported Trump in the presidential election last year.

“The oligarchy is on the ballot. Andrew Cuomo is the candidate of a billionaire class who suffocates our democracy and forcing the working class of our city,” said Mamdani’s campaign in an email to supporters.

Trump and his administration were also under the New York mayor’s campaign projectors last week when the New York Brad Lander controller, who is in the third place in the last polls, was arrested in Manhattan by agents of the Department of Homeland Security.

Lander was detained for allegedly assaulted a federal officer while trying to escort a defendant of an immigration court.

The New York controller and candidate for the Democrat Town Hall, Brad Lander, was arrested in an immigration court in New York on June 17, 2025 on this screen from a video obtained from social media. (New York / via Reuters controller office)

Temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees in New York on Tuesday while the city holds its primary. Dangerously high temperatures can prevent some older voters from heading to the ballot boxes. Because of this possibility, the heat wave could affect the participation rate in a race which could be summed up in union support of Cuomo and the structure of the campaign compared to the voluntary forces of Mandani.

New York elections have said that more than 384,000 democrats have voted in early voting, which ended on Sunday.

The election is underway using a classified choice voting system in which voters classify the candidates by preference on their ballots. If no candidate receives a majority of votes of first choice, the lowest voting is abandoned, the votes of this candidate have reassigned to the highest choices of voters. The process is repeated until a candidate cracks 50%. Mamdani hopes that the classified choice process will increase its chances against Cuomo.

The New York primary occurs while the Democratic Party strives to escape from the political desert, after last year’s elections, when the party lost control of the White House, the majority of the Senate and failed to regain control of the GOP chamber.

And this occurs while the party works to resist the agenda of Trump’s second term and controversial.

MIRINGOFF said that the results of the primary will be considered a barometer from the Democratic Party leadership, to the center if Cuomo wins and to the left if Mamdani is victorious.

The candidates for the democratic town hall Andrew Cuomo, on the left, and Zohran Mamdani, on the right, present arguments like Whitney Tilson, center, examines during a primary debate at the Democratic town hall, Wednesday June 4, 2025, in New York. (Yuki iwamura / photo photo)

“Because it’s New York and it’s a very blue city and everything that is happening is amplified, I think we are going to hear a lot about the future of the Democratic Party and how it should be defined, going towards the middle,” said Miringoff.

The group aligned by center-left democrat, The Third Way, said in a note that they were “deeply alarmed” from the prospect of a Mamdani victory.

“A Mamdani victory for a high -level office would be a devastating blow in the fight to defeat Trumpism,” said the group.

The winner of the primary of the Democratic Party is traditionally considered to be the crumbling of the main elections in November in the city dominated by the Democrats.

However, this year, the general electoral campaign can be a little more unpredictable.

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who was elected in 2021 as a Democrat, presents himself to his re -election this year as an independent candidate. (New York mayor’s office)

Holder Mayor Eric Adams, A moderate democrat elected in 2021, presents himself to a re -election as an independent. Adams earlier this year abandoned its primary democratic offer when its approval notes have sunk to historic stockings.

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Adams survey numbers were still running before he was even charged last year with five counts, who accused the mayor of corruption and fraud as part of an alleged “long -term” regime to personally take advantage of contacts with foreign officials.

The mayor made repeated openings to the president Donald Trump, And the Ministry of Justice earlier this year rejected the accusations of corruption, so that Adams can apparently work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration repression.