BONUS: O'Reilly on the 'Loon' NYC Mayoral Candidate
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Big mayoral primary next week. You ready for it? Cuomo will win. But a lot of TV spots for Zoran Mamdani, the socialist from Queens. You know, he's an interesting guy. Very photogenic, good on TV, presents well. He is a self-proclaimed socialist. OK, and he actually is a member of

of the Democratic Socialists of America, New York City chapter. And he is about as radical a candidate for mayor as has ever run. And I'm looking back at some anarchists and I mean, this guy's a piece of work. So he's currently serving as a New York State Assemblyman in New York's 36th District, Queens.

And I said this last week, the people who vote for him have pretty much given up on the capitalistic system. They want it torn apart. They don't believe they can compete. They want government entitlements. I'm generalizing, but, you know, I don't think I'm wrong at all. They need to vote for a guy like Mamdani, who says, hey, look, you know, I don't I'm not going to uphold any of this business stuff. We're going to wipe it all on out.

So he's called for defunding the police. That'd be great in New York, right? No cops. Hates Israel. He thinks they're a bunch of fascists and perpetrating a genocide in Gaza. He supports removing ICE entirely from New York City. He wants to raise New York City's minimum wage by $30 an hour.

I mean, that would drive every small business out of here. There'd be nobody left. You can't pay people 30 bucks an hour. You know, you're a bodega. So look, this guy's a loon, but he's got money. You know, the far left, they've got cash and they're pumping it into the TV spots. And he looks like, oh, look at this guy. He's not that bad.

So anyway, he's going to lose because African-Americans are supporting Andrew Cuomo. That won't change. And that's a huge constituency. We're basically looking at a city now in New York that is pretty much out of control. And it took a while. de Blasio, eight years. Adams, four years. That's 12 years away from Bloomberg, who had some discipline.

and of course Giuliani at the turn of the 21st century. And the city, no matter what they tell you, is a very difficult place. It's not safe in many areas. I mean, the Bronx is absolutely out of control. It's got corruption across the board, a lot of things happening behind the scenes that people don't know about, congestion through the roof, debt huge. And

It remains, though, the most powerful city in the world. That's really interesting, isn't it? So I recently was in Tokyo, a bigger city. Tokyo doesn't

pale, it's just not even close to New York. And then I was in Beijing, China, much bigger city than New York and not. Beijing is powerful because the government there is so menacing, but it's not powerful because of commerce or anything like that. New York in the free world is the place. And that's why people continue to come here at a very high level. But the working people are moving out and the stats are the stats.

But if you have far-left governance, more and more and more. Cuomo is not going to be a far-left loon, but he's not going to right many wrongs, in my opinion. I hope I'm wrong about Andrew Cuomo. I hope he rehabilitates himself if he is elected mayor. Now, Curtis Sliwa has a chance if...

Mayor Adams runs on a third party ticket, which he says he will, and siphons off a number of votes. So Sliwe is a Republican, can't get him out. But it looks like Cuomo will be the next guy. And you can hope, but that's what it is at this point, because nobody knows what Mr. Cuomo would do.