Hochul activates the sarcasm for Mike Lawler

With assist from Amira McKee

🚨 🚨 — “Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor Race,” by NYT’s Nicholas Fandos, Jeremy W. Peters, Maggie Haberman and Katherine Rosman: “President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he has privately discussed whether to intercede in its fractious race for mayor to try to stop Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, according to eight people briefed on the discussions.” (Extra beneath)

​​CRY ME A RIVER: At the same time as Gov. Kathy Hochul doubles down on her Democratic gerrymandering plan, she stated she’s feeling overcome with despondency for New York Republicans who may lose their seats when she tries to redraw New York’s maps to spice up her social gathering.

“I feel really sad,” Hochul stated at this time, when requested if she had a message for any GOP reps who would possibly see their seat erased if she pushes by means of a full-fledged gerrymander.

Fortunately, Hochul famous, there’s a means out.

His identify is Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, and, she stated, he has the political energy and sway in Washington to finish partisan gerrymandering along with his forthcoming federal invoice that may ban the follow nationwide.

“He has so much enormous power in Washington,” Hochul stated of Lawler.

Sike! She was kidding. She doesn’t really feel unhappy. She doesn’t suppose Lawler has any juice in D.C. and he or she positively doesn’t appear to be slowing down her push to gerrymander the hell out of New York in what she says is a response to Texas’ efforts.

On Tuesday, Democratic Nationwide Committee Chair Ken Martin indicated he’s encouraging different Democratic governors to think about redrawing their maps too. And the purple state of Missouri, which has two GOP Home seats, may very well be Republicans’ subsequent gerrymandering goal.

Because the redistricting battle appears to be like to be going nuclear, Hochul is daring Republicans like Lawler to loudly name for an finish to their social gathering’s redistricting effort in Texas.

“Tell them to call the president of their own party and say, ‘Stand down in the war with New York and California and other Democratic states,’” Hochul stated. “If you want to stop what you’re doing in Texas, I’ll stand down. You started it. You end it.”

“This is a guy who’s now saying, ‘I’m going to introduce a bill to get it changed,’” she stated. “The same guy who promised a full restoration of the state and local tax deduction comes back far short from that and spins it as a win that everybody’s buying. He has no power. He won’t get it done. And I’m not sympathetic because he was silent.”

Lawler’s workplace famous that the will increase in state and native tax deductions he fought with Trump for in the course of the creation of the One Massive Stunning Invoice Act gives aid for many of his district, with solely the highest 10 p.c of taxpayers not getting a tax reduce.

“Kathy Hochul is not just the worst Governor in America, she’s also the dumbest,” Lawler stated in an announcement. “After years of calling for the SALT cap to be fixed, she’s now attacking the solution because Democrats weren’t the ones to get it done, my New York GOP colleagues and I were. No one believes a word she says. Her own colleagues in the State Legislature mock her at every turn. What a pathetic excuse for a leader of New York State.” — Jason Beeferman

TRUMP EYES NYC MAYOR’S RACE: Trump is “very interested” within the New York Metropolis mayoral race, stated Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis, who’s pleasant with each Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams. Catsimatidis stated he dined Friday with Trump.

“He’s a New York guy, he grew up in New York,” Catsimatidis instructed Playbook. “He loves New York. He wants to make sure there’s proper accounting in New York, that the quality of life goes on in New York and that we don’t lose any more population.”

Trump hasn’t dedicated to a job within the race, although, and Catsimatidis stated he needs the president to carry off — for now.

“I asked him to put off decisions on anything until September,” Catsimatidis stated.

The New York Occasions reported on the president’s curiosity earlier at this time.

The Occasions additionally reported that in a closed-door assembly with Lawler final month within the White Home, Trump mentioned the mayor’s race with the Hudson Valley congressman.

An individual acquainted with the assembly instructed Playbook that Trump didn’t specific a particular choice for any of the mayoral candidates, however moderately was keen on who has the very best shot at successful.

Trump’s involvement would come as Cuomo’s pushing for the sphere to coalesce across the strongest challenger to Mamdani by mid-September — a dynamic that at present favors the previous governor, in response to most polls.

“The president runs the country and what is said to him at the dinner party is, ‘We saved America, we saved the free world, now it’s time to save New York,” Catsimatidis stated. “I’m pretty sure he agreed with it.” — Nick Reisman and Jason Beeferman

ANDREW CUOMO, THE REPLY GUY: In case you haven’t been on X within the final 24 hours (fortunate you) you’ve missed Cuomo’s livid — and curious — barrage of posts and replies.

Since Monday, Cuomo has expressed gratitude to somebody with the username “Andrew Cuomo is a Sex Pest.” He referred to as on Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani to “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction” his property in Uganda — a rustic, he famous, “that murders LGBTQIA+ people.” And the previous governor even responded earnestly to another person who instructed him to “Give it up grandpa.”

“No grandkids yet- but I’ve got the experience and the ability to get things done,” Cuomo wrote.

The mayoral hopeful and failed main candidate has posted over 35 instances on X over the previous two days, largely with a brand new, direct tone that may’ve been unbecoming of the highly-coordinated main marketing campaign he was operating simply two months in the past.

It’s a brand new social media method from the 67-year-old and his marketing campaign after his millennial foe Mamdani efficiently utilized the medium to handily beat him within the Democratic main and surge the under-30 turnout.

So is Andrew himself behind the account?

“We hired this really smart kid named A.J. Parkinson,” Wealthy Azzopardi instructed Playbook, an obvious tongue-in-cheek reference to a fictitious character Cuomo’s father first dropped at life and quoted continuously within the early ‘80s.

Coincidentally, Parkinson emerged across the similar time Cuomo took his final nap — a reality we now know as a result of he instructed us so in one among his many replies on X this afternoon.

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer loves it.

“W,” she wrote in response to Cuomo’s name for a Uganda-centric BDS motion.

Mamdani’s marketing campaign didn’t touch upon Cuomo’s new on-line method. — Jason Beeferman

NO MATCHING FUNDS FOR ADAMS: The New York Metropolis Marketing campaign Finance Board denied Adams thousands and thousands of {dollars} in matching funds for the tenth time this morning — and advised in a strongly worded assertion that Adams is not going to be getting a penny anytime quickly, POLITICO reported at this time.

The regulatory physique denied Adams the general public funding he’s searching for for his basic election bid on two grounds: His marketing campaign has not submitted required paperwork, and the board has motive to consider the marketing campaign violated the regulation.

The board’s resolution escalates a long-simmering standoff with the incumbent and hobbles Adams’ capacity to compete at a time when he’s already at a extreme drawback. The mayor dropped out of the Democratic main after the controversial dismissal of a federal bribery case in opposition to him. He’s now operating within the crowded basic election as an impartial.

Fellow independents Cuomo and Jim Walden are hoping to take down Mamdani, a democratic socialist who has solidly staked out the left lane within the basic election. So is GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa.

Cuomo’s base overlaps with Adams’, as does Sliwa’s, though to a lesser diploma. Ought to the multimillion-dollar gap in his battle chest persist, the mayor will likely be pressured to proceed the time-consuming technique of fundraising lengthy after his opponents, putting one more impediment in the best way of his longshot comeback bid.

Adams’ marketing campaign didn’t instantly touch upon the board’s newest resolution. — Joe Anuta

— PAC CASH: The professional-Adams PAC, Empower NYC, has raised $1 million in assist of the mayor’s long-shot reelection bid, together with from crypto trade donors. (Metropolis and State)

— NUCLEAR OPTION: Hochul’s administration needs to proceed subsidizing New York’s growing older nuclear services till 2050. (POLITICO Professional)

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