The campaign video of the town hall of the ex-slams Slams Andrew Cuomo

A former staff member of former president Barack Obama destroyed a campaign video of the Hope of New York town hall Andrew Cuomo, who lost the Democratic primary because of the socialist Zohran Mamdani last month.

“This is one of the least convincing campaign videos I have ever seen,” wrote Dan Pfeiffer, former deputy communications director and deputy advisor to Obama’s White House on X.

“Just a visibly annoyed man wearing a poorly adapted shirt saying things he clearly does not believe,” said Pfeiffer, declaring that Cuomo had “no message”, “no charisma” and that the video had no “convincing visuals”.

Cuomo published the video of the campaign formalizing its independent candidacy of the town hall on Monday, with the comment that accompanies it, “inside to win”.

“ Inside to win it ”: Cuomo refuses to retreat in a heated mayor race in New York against Zohran Mamdani

Andrew Cuomo addresses the international fraternity of electric workers on June 22, 2025 in New York. Public appearance came as an early vote for the Democratic primary is coming to an end. (Images Alex Kent / Getty)

Reached by Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the Cuomo campaign noted that the video had accumulated more than 12 million views in less than a day since its online publication.

“If the island pod saves the guys from America does not like something, it must mean that we are on the right track,” added the spokesperson for Pfeiffer, who co-animating the main progressive podcast entitled “Pod Saves America”.

Mamdani’s incapacity to go back these positions could cause a calculation in the Democratic Party: “ Harning to five alarms’ ”

Cuomo’s video starts with him standing in a New York park saying that “unless you live under a rock, you probably know that the Democratic primary did not do as I hoped.”

“To the 400,040 New Yorkers who voted for me, a sincere thanks. Thank you for believing in me and my program and my experience,” the former governor told three mandates who became a candidate of the town hall. “I’m really sorry to drop you. But as my grandfather said:” When you are overturned, learn the lesson and go back to the game, and that’s what I’m going to do. “”

Cuomo delivered his message while images played him with the hands of people in the street and in the metro system.

“The fight to save our city is not over. Only 13% of New Yorkers voted during the June primary,” said Cuomo. “The general elections are in November, and I am here to win it. My opponent, Mr. Mamdani, offers smooth slogans but no real solutions. We need a city with safer streets, where the purchase of your first house is again possible, where children did not make you.

“You have not abandoned it, and you deserve a mayor with experience and ideas so that it happens again. And the courage to take anyone who stands on the way,” added Cuomo. “Every day, I’m going to go on the streets, you meet where you will hear good and bad, problems and solutions. Because for the coming months, it is my responsibility to win your vote. So let’s do that. I will see you there.”

The main advisor of the White House, Dan Pfeiffer, speaks during an interview with Washington, DC, United States, Friday, November 7, 2014. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mamdani’s main victory over Cuomo and nine other candidates three weeks ago rocked the Democratic Party and stimulated the 33 -year -old Ogandan state member of Queens to become the first Muslim mayor of the most populated city in the country. Mamdani has achieved a main victory thanks to an energetic campaign that has emphasized the affordability and high cost of New York.

Mamdani has made intelligent use of social media platforms, including Tiktok, while he was engaging in low propagation voters. He proposed to eliminate the prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, making rents from Cuny (University of the City of New York), freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycares” for children up to 5 years and the establishment of grocery stores managed by the government.

Thanks in part to the efforts of an army of massive volunteers from the base, he brought a wave of support for younger and progressive voters to catapult himself in first place on Cuomo, which had been the first runner.

In Deep Blue New York City, the winner of the Democratic primary is largely favored to win the general elections. If Mamdani wins in November, he will be the first Muslim and millennial mayor of New York. Mamdani was raised in Uganda and then in Cape Town, South Africa, to the age of 7 in New York, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science.

President Barack Obama and the main advisor Dan Pfeiffer landed from the Air Force One upon their arrival in Andrews Air Force in Maryland on March 6, 2015. Obama did not officially expressed a post on the candidacy of the mayor of Zohran Mamdani. (Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

Mamdani’s father is a professor of the University of Columbia who sits on the advisory council of an anti-Israeli organization who supports boycotts and sanctions in Israel, regularly accuses the Israeli government of committing a “genocide” and expressed its sympathy for suicide bomber. His mother is a famous Indian filmmaker.

Mamdani notably refused in a June interview to condemn the expression “globalizing intifada”, arousing serious concerns of Jewish New Yorkans facing an increase in anti-Semitism following October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas terrorists in Israel.

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The Democrat mayor, Eric Adams, also abandoned his candidacy earlier this year, the Democratic Mayor, who abandoned his main candidacy in the midst of the survey numbers which dirty following numerous controversies. Adams works as independent.

The other candidates for the general elections are Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor who presents himself as an independent co-founder, and the co-founder of the Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, who, for a second consecutive election, is the republican candidate for the town hall.

Paul Steinhauser from Fox News, Andrew Mark Miller and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.