Trump says Narrow Field had to beat Mamdani in the New York town hall race

President Donald Trump, Aiming to defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party, Zohran Mamdani, during the major mayors elections in New York, urges rival candidates to abandon.

“I don’t think you can win unless you have one,” Trump told journalists before a White House dinner with leaders of the leading technology industry on Thursday evening.

Mamdani, the legislator of the Socialist State of Ugandan origin, 33, of the New York district of Queens, who acquired a notoriety for his history of communist and anti-Israeli rhetoric, shocked the political world in June while he was beating the former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates by the Democratic Party of the Democratic Party.

Cuomo, who resigned from his post as governor in 2021 in the midst of several scandals, appeared in the general elections as an independent candidate. The same goes for the mayor Eric Adams, the besieged holder who announced earlier this year that he would bypass the Democratic primary in the midst of approval ratings.

Debate Mamdani and Cuomo on the debates in the confrontation of the mayor of New York

Former Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who presents himself for the mayor of New York as an independent candidate, organized a press conference on August 18, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

The co-founder of Guardian Angels, Curtis Sliwa, is also on the ballot, which, for a second consecutive election, is the republican candidate for the mayor.

But Mamdani is the sample of a clear survey in a city where the Democrats dominate the political landscape. And a victory in November would make him the first Muslim mayor and first millennium in the most populous 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. It was fueled by an army of basic supporters and the support of the best national national champions, including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York and Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.

Adams, Cuomo Trade Jabs in interviews under the anti-Mamdani voting name

And Mamdani has made intelligent use of social media platforms, notably Tiktok, when he hired voters with low property. His distant proposals on the left include elimination of prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, making rents from Cuny (City University of New York), without tuition fees, rents on municipal housing, offering “free guardians” for children up to 5 years old and the establishment of grocery establishments led by the government.

The candidate of the mayor of the New York Democratic Party, Zohran Mamdani, spoke with supporters during a Canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Sunday, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Trump, a native New Yorker who today calls Florida at home, once again weighed on the race, saying: “I would like to see two people abandon and that it is only one against one. And I think it’s a race that could be won.”

The president also reiterated his assertion that Mamdani is a communist.

“I would prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York. And, you know, that is what it is based on its policy. If you look at its statements in the past,” said Trump.

The Silent White House in the report that Trump’s allies have weighed to attract Adams to the Administration to Saper Mamdani

Trump did not say what candidates he would like to see abandoning. And asked by journalists if he had encouraged one of the town hall contenders to leave the race, Trump said: “No.”

The best Trump advisers are trying to persuade Adams and Sliwa to abandon the race by offering them positions in the president’s administration, the New York Times reported this week.

President Donald Trump told journalists on Thursday that he wanted “two people to abandon” to organize a Town Helping “Tête-à-tête” with Zohran Mamdani in New York. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

And the New York Post reported that Trump wanted the candidates to happen again by next week.

The New York Times and the New York Post also reported that ADAMS had told a small group of friends and advisers that he was considering employment opportunities that would encourage him to suspend his mayor’s re -election campaign.

And the two newspapers also pointed out that in Florida on Tuesday, Adams met Trump’s best envoy and advisor Steve Witkoff.

But the mayor and his campaign publicly repeat that he does not leave the race.

Mayor Eric Adams made a public security announcement on Staten Island on Monday, August 18, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

“Do not give up,” Henry Naccari, spokesperson for the Adams campaign, told Fox News.

Friday, Adams doubled, saying in a press release: “I always present myself to the re -election.”

But in what seemed to be a recognition of the job offer reported in the Trump administration, the mayor wrote: “Although I always listen to if I am called to serve our country, no formal offer has been made.”

Sliwa stressed in a digital interview Fox News last month: “I don’t give up.

He reiterated in recent days that he has not abandoned and said he had no interest in working in the Trump administration.

Cuomo, speaking with journalists on Thursday, said that he had “no idea” if the reports on Trump trying to empty the field for him were correct, and he said he had not spoken to Trump or Adams.

“I know nothing about this speculation,” said the former governor.

Trump’s comments on the town hall race occurred a few hours after Cuomo challenged Mamdani to five different debates in the five New York clashes.

Cuomo argued that Mamdani had failed “to give a direct answer” to the questions of journalists and had changed his mind “on everything” he said on the campaign track.

“When you try to ask (Mamdani) a question, he will simply not answer, and he obscures. And, frankly, you let him get away,” said Cuomo. “I won’t let him get away. And New Yorkers will not let him get away.”

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But Mamdani retaliated with his own proposal: debate Trump.

“Let’s cut the man in the middle. Why should I debate Donald Trump’s puppet when I could debate Donald Trump himself?” Mamdani’s campaign told Fox News Digital in a statement. “If Donald Trump wishes to seriously intervene in the race for the mayor, he should come to New York and struggle directly from the reason why he reduces the benefits for hungry New Yorkers to give tax loss to his wealthy donors.”

Meanwhile, in a sign of its fundraising and basic force prowess, Mamdani’s campaign announced on Friday that it had officially reached the New York $ 8 million spending ceiling and said that it would urge supporters to stop making a donation.

Courtney by George de Fox News contributed to this report.