President Donald Trump weighed in on some high-profile state and native elections this week by telling his followers to vote Republican, or else.
The president issued the pointed message ― in all caps ― on his Fact Social web site on the evening earlier than Election Day.
“VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY, REMEMBER THIS: A VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY LOWER ENERGY PRICES, A VOTE FOR A DEMOCRAT, ESPECIALLY THESE TWO LOSERS WHO ARE RUNNING, MEANS A DOUBLING, TRIPLING, AND EVEN QUADRUPLING OF YOUR ENERGY COSTS,” he wrote Monday. “IT WILL NOT BE SUSTAINABLE, AND YOU WILL RUE THE DAY THAT YOU VOTED TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE! FAILING TO VOTE TOMORROW IS THE SAME AS VOTING FOR A DEMOCRAT.”
Trump himself has made one notable exception by endorsing Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who’s operating as an unbiased, for New York mayor over his Republican opponent, Curtis Sliwa.
In a separate Fact Social publish, the president recommended that voting for Sliwa would solely profit his Democratic challenger, Zohran Mamdani.
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He additionally slammed Mamdani, a self-identified democratic socialist, as a “Communist Candidate” earlier than threatening to withhold funding from New York if Mamdani swept to victory on Tuesday as quite a few polls have predicted.
“His principles have been tested for over a thousand years, and never once have they been successful. I would much rather see a Democrat, who has had a Record of Success, WIN, than a Communist with no experience and a Record of COMPLETE AND TOTAL FAILURE,” he wrote. “He was nothing as an Assemblyman, ranked at the bottom of the class and, as Mayor of potentially, again, the Greatest City in the World, HE HAS NO CHANCE to bring it back to its former Glory!”
On Tuesday, Trump went even additional by asserting that any Jewish New Yorker who casts a poll for Mamdani is “a stupid person.”
A New York Occasions report printed in August recommended Cuomo and Trump had a hotter relationship now than they did throughout Cuomo’s decadelong tenure as New York governor and had held a name in regards to the election. That very same month, Cuomo advised supporters at a fundraiser that he felt good about having Trump’s assist, in accordance with Politico.
Mamdani, in the meantime, has used the president’s backing of Cuomo as an attacking level.
“In these final days, what was rumored, what was feared, has become naked and unabashed,” he advised reporters earlier this week. “The MAGA movement’s embrace of Andrew Cuomo is reflective of Donald Trump’s understanding that this would be the best mayor for him.”
