IHIP News - Zohran Mamdani Blindsides Cuomo in Brutal Takedown, He's Speechless

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Zohran Mamdani is destroying Andrew Cuomo for a second time in the NYC Mayoral race and he's pulling zero punches. Order our new book, join our Substack, shop our merch, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Zoran Mamdani is putting on a master class on how the Democrats win. This man stays on subject with a smile, eviscerates Trumpian Andrew Cuomo. Like, I've never seen. This guy is the future of the Democratic Party. And the fact that there is leadership in the Democratic Party that has not endorsed this man is why we live. why we lose. Here is a clip from last night's debate where Zoron eviscerates Cuomo. Mr. Cuomo, in 2021, 13 different women who worked in your administration incredibly accused you of sexual harassment. Since then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds

to defend yourself all while describing these allegations as entirely political. You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening. You sought to access her private gynecological records. She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed? if you if you want to be in government then you have to be serious and mature okay so this guy is just eating Cuomo for lunch left and right this is an absolute master class Cuomo is very Trumpian he has the sexual abuse allegations he has all the billionaire donors he doesn't

care about affordability. He feigns that he does. But Andrew Cuomo is the Democratic leadership's top choice, despite the fact that Zoran Mamdani won the primary decisively and is lapping everybody left and right. Even the Republican Sliwa in this race cannot stand Andrew Cuomo. But you have billionaires just giving money and money and money because they are so terrified. You guys, their taxes are going to be raised by 2%. One, two. This is a prime example of why Democrats lose because they are corporate Democrats.

Mom Donnie is going to win. He's going to win decisively. And the Democratic corporate leadership better take notes. Moving along, here is an absolute indictment by Mom Donnie on Trump. Listen to this. Look, Donald Trump ran on three promises. He ran on creating the single largest deportation force in American history.

He ran on going after his political enemies, and he ran on lowering the cost of living. If he wants to talk to me about the third piece of that agenda, I will always be ready and willing. But if he wants to talk about how to pursue the first and second piece of that agenda at the expense of New Yorkers, I will fight him every single step of the way. Okay. You guys, this is fabulous. It's absolutely correct. that Trump ran on exactly what he's doing with immigrants.

100% this is what he ran on. But he also ran on affordability. And a lot of people, believe it or not, I think they actually voted for eggs. Inflation is through the roof. The federal deficit has ballooned. It's the highest it has ever been. Canks is so tone deaf right now with his ballroom and his excessive spending and his private plane. He doesn't give a shit about the working class.

He parades around on a golf cart. Mar-Lago shouting to his millionaire and billionaire friends, I'm going to lower your taxes, I'm going to lower your taxes. The only people that Canks wants to be popular with are billionaires. Similarly, this is what Andrew Cuomo wants. Zoran Mamdani wants to be popular with everyone. In fact, I would even argue he doesn't want to be popular. He wants his ideas to be popular because his ideas speak to everybody, universal human rights. affordability, livable wages. These are the points that corporate dims need to move away from corporate donors, stop with the APAC money, and jump on the train. Next up, Zerun goes and he does

the Flagrant podcast and he has them eating out of his hands. This is the, these are the podcasters that famously endorsed Trump. So he goes right into the brosphere and they love him. play the clip i don't think anybody's moving and i honestly feel that way i'm in the tax market we're gonna tax more like dude if you're gonna deliver all this shit for two percent give it i i'm a hundred percent supportive it makes life easier for new yorkers this my one identity in my entire life is a new yorker it's the thing i care the most about but i think that there are going to be people in government that are going to try to restrict you from doing that and i know that you're aware of that what the fuck do you do when special interest groups are

going to be lobbying like crazy i mean you have how do you do that you have to be ready to take on these fights. There is a reason why we haven't had progress. There are people making money off the status quo. And so there will be a lot of interest in retaining that status quo. Right now, the city of New York will pay McKinsey a few million dollars to design a trash can. McKinsey's not going to be happy when I say, we don't need you to design that anymore. We can actually design that ourselves. You're right that we're going to have to transform the inner workings of government. And that means ending a patronage politics. There are a lot of people who have jobs more to do with who they know than what they do. So this right here,

the preservation of the status quo. This is what corporate Democrats and MAGA have in common. And you have Bill Ackman, another clip in this podcast, Bill Ackman is this billionaire that spends literally more money trying to defeat Mamdani than he would with raised wages. These billionaires have utter disdain for working class people. They completely suck off of them. They are parasitic to the working class. Really well. people feel entitled that their wages should go up and that they should control everything. This Bill Ackman is so delusional that he thinks, because he's a billionaire, that he deserves a one-on-one sit-down meeting with Zoran, Mom Donnie.

Mom Donnie's like, no, I'm not sitting down with you. I'm sitting down with working class people. I'm sitting down with union people. I'm sitting down with the police. I'm sitting down with the people that make this city run, and they can't stand it. They can't buy him. They can't own him. and he goes deep in the heart of the manosphere.

And there's the flagrant podcast guys saying, look, nobody's going to leave New York. They're all full as shit. And Andrew Schultz says, I will gladly pay more money in taxes because my whole identity is being a New Yorker. And that is what during FDR's reign, that is what a lot of wealthy people felt about America.

I will gladly pay more in taxes because it's patriotic. And that's why FDR's reign, That's why FDR was so popular because he did a lot of working class proposals that affected the most of us. The Democrats sent Citizen United and after Reagan. He started really moving the party to favor profits. And the Democrats started clinging on to corporate ownership. And they are always executing the interests of corporate donorships. And as a Democrat, I feel like when I hear Democratic leadership speak that they are the party of preservation.

that they want to preserve the status quo that lost Hillary the election, that lost Kamala the election, and leaves this void for grifters to come in, like Kanks with his online flea market and all of the obnoxious shit that he's doing, like Marjorie Taylor Green and Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson, because they know that this FDR style politics, this style of populism, is incredibly popular. Moving along, this is really interesting. The only thing that they've really been able, they've tried to peg Zoran with being an anti-Semite, it's bullshit. Of course, there are some hardcore Jewish people that just absolutely will never vote for a Muslim that's theirs to deal with. There are plenty of Jewish New Yorkers that are 100% on board with universal human rights. But the one thing that was a deficit in Zoran's campaign was this time that he went to bench press.

and everybody made fun of him. Andrew Cuomo piled on and made fun of him. Fox News went bananas. And here he is 100% laughing at himself, cutting up with these brosphere guys. This guy, again, master class on how to run a campaign. Play the clip. Joey, bring in the bench press because he has to do it.

Every year, I'm going to do one pound more. Next year, 136. Let's go more. I saw you got it in. I was like, you fucked up, dude. Let me tell you. You shouldn't have done it. I knew I fucked up when I saw it.

You think I thought, I thought I was going to kill it? I knew it was a problem. And this guy was like, you gotta do it. It was like, I really don't. You should have put the big 10 pound weights on. You know the big 10 pounds? That was trying to get it. It was all.

Now you got it. But next year, 136. Okay. Watch this. Camas I can keep. Let's just see. 136. 136.

You didn't keep 135. Let's get that from the editor. This is what politicians sound like when they're not beholden to corporate corporations, and they don't lead with their ego. This is so refreshing. This is what the Democratic Party needs to return to. The Hakeem Jefferies, the Corey Bookers, the Chuck Schumers, that word salad, even Alyssa Slotkin.

It is this word salad corporate bullshit that is a snooze vest, inauthentic, and loses elections. This guy is everything that a candidate needs to be. And don't take my word for it. Let's listen to veteran political strategist James Carvel. And you may remember Mr. Carvel was a little upset at the beginning of Trump's administration. when David Hogg was at the DNC and he wanted to put candidates like Zoran Mamdani all across all across the nation and now James Carville is realizing this corporate miniscule baby step Democratic Preservation Conservative Party that the current Democratic leadership subscribes to is a death kneel to fascism listen to James Carville here. Well, communications at the college level, four years of community college, nine years of Tulane, Florida, LSU. If I got to have one guess to demonstrate to my students how to communicate, I think I would pick him.

That guy stays on message. You cannot get him out of talking about affordability. You notice what he was talking about. Rent stabilization, building more houses. He talks about transit. And it's just a real tutorial. And Mandami does something that is very important. He tells people, I see you.

I see what your life is. So this is the biggest message right now. It's so frustrating being an American right now that it's opposed to fascism, because in many ways, you're also opposed to Democratic leadership. And it's so frustrating. It's so incredibly frustrating because Democratic leadership, when you look at Booker, when you look at Jeffries, when you look at chuckles, they will not endorse Zoron because of their A-PAC donations,

because they are terrified of A-PAC running candidates against them. And I kind of go back to David Hogg here. Maybe we run progressives against them because that leadership is the death kneel to fascism. That style of corporate Democratic Party leadership leads directly to the vacuum that allows the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Steve Mannons, the Tucker Carlson's, and the Donald Trump's to fill it. And lastly, this guy, Curtis Sliwa, he is receiving a lot of pressure from billionaires to drop out of the race. Billionaires that lost in the primary, billionaires that are terrified of paying 2% more in taxes, billionaires that are butt hurt, the Zoran Mom Doni won't sit down with them because they think they're so entitled

and they think they're so special that they should have a one-on-one meeting. with this man. And he's beholden to no one but New Yorkers. And he doesn't lead with his ego. He leads with empathy. So let's hear from the Republican opponent of Zoran Mamdani. That means if you talk to me and you offer me a bribe, which is unethical, it could be illegal. And I'm going to have to run right to Alvin Bragg and his investigators. And you could be in double troubles. So, I mean, they are really putting a lot of pressure on this guy. And this is the system that corporate Democrats are trying to preserve.

They are conservative preservationists that want to preserve the status quo. Status quo politics brought us Donald Trump. And look at the two different games we play. Does Donald Trump govern incrementally? It's like, no, he's tearing down the entire East Wing right now. And he doesn't give a shit. He doesn't care who has to approve it. tore it down, and he'll ask for forgiveness later. He doesn't ask for permission. He is going and

doing everything that he wants to do. The days of incremental pussyfooting, lollygagging politics are over, and the Democratic leadership needs to take note or step aside. And I agree with David Hogg, let's run true progressives that don't lead with ego, that don't lead with corporate interests, that lead with the best interests for the United States of America. because the capitalism that all of these billionaires love so much, it is not sustainable in this system. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Please like and subscribe by our book.

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