Zohran Mamdani's top cheerleader Bill de Blasio now says NYC mayoral front-runner's math 'doesn't add up' a week before election
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Zohran Mamdani, once championed by Bill de Blasio, is now facing criticism from his former supporter, who claims the policies Mamdani is promoting are financially unsustainable.

Although de Blasio has been backing the Democratic candidate, even wearing a “Hot Girls for Zohran” shirt at a recent demonstration, he expressed skepticism about Mamdani’s $10 billion plan of socialist initiatives during an interview released Tuesday.

“From my perspective, the numbers don’t withstand scrutiny, and the political challenges are considerable,” de Blasio mentioned to The Times of London, after apparently taking a closer look at the intricacies of Mamdani’s ambitious proposals, which include free public transportation and universal childcare.


NYC 2025 Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani exits a vehicle, smiling at someone off-camera, while a man in a suit stands in the foreground.
“In my view, the math doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, and the political hurdles are substantial,” de Blasio said. James Messerschmidt

“We don’t just need Zohran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas, or because they can be achieved,” de Blasio wrote in the op-ed.

De Blasio has long been an ally of Mayor Eric Adams and even gave him a heads-up that the op-ed was coming, telling the sitting mayor he would have been in his corner if stuck with the Democratic Party line.

Adams just recently backed ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s independent bid for mayor and was out on the campaign trail stumping for him on Tuesday.

Calls to de Blasio were not returned.

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