Adams or Cuomo need to drop out of the race to beat Mamdani.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning with us, Like every Sunday, we have Governor David Pattison, and last week, last weekend, he called me over the weekend and you said to me, John, we got to do something about the Democratic Party. Well, Governor Patterson is the former governor in the state of New York and also the former state leader of the Democratic Party.

0:25 Go out, Governor Patterson. We had that press conference on Monday morning along with Judge Richard Weinberg, who was a Democrat for fifty years and a consul to speak of a loan, give us an update for the American people.

0:43 Speaker 2 Well, John, even when I talked to you last Sunday morning, I was in my mind thinking about an idea that I talked to you about Sunday afternoon, and it was the presumption that if Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams both stay in the mayor’s race, it will open the door for Zoron Momdani to win the election in November for mayor.

1:14 And my proposal was that there be a way to make a decision which of these two candidates should run against Mandani. And the idea would have been that a lot of the independent expenditures that are spent on mayoral campaigns by people, you know, generally of some wealth, that we would raise money in that respect, and then by

1:43 use of maybe three major polling companies and then conbining what they determined to be the better candidate, the other candidate would drop out in September, and you’d have pretty much a one on one race between the winner and Ma’m donnie. Now, after the press conference, obviously neither one of the candidates.

2:08 Speaker 1 You might have gotten a thousand phone calls tell us about it.

2:12 Speaker 2 Well, I got a whole lot of nasty negative phone calls, really vitriolic from Mamdanni’s supporters who were calling in, call my home, call my wife. I mean, it was really kind of difficult for that forty eight hours after that press conference, But the two major candidates pretty much made it clear that neither one of them is going to

2:40 drop out. And apparently Andrew Cuomo called Eric Adams and invited him to get out. So what I can say is good luck to both of them. But I still believe that if both of them are in the race, that mister Momdani will win. Now, the reason I have such a problem with mister Mumbay because in the beginning

3:03 he was a young candidate, had new ideas, very charismatic, can make a crowd really cheer for him, but he’s never evidenced a plan for changing pretty much anything in the city. He’s pointed out and by the way, he pointed this out very well, that the property taxes in the outer boroughs far exceed the ones in central Manhattan.

3:29 So you can have billionaires that live in Manhattan paying two three thousand dollars in property taxes and individuals like a single parent family head who’s going to pay five thousand dollars living in the outer borough So he identified the problem, but he didn’t identify the solution. Then, when you read up on him more and you hear some

3:54 of the comments he made after the riots in Minnesota following the George Floyd incident, he said things like, well, it’s too bad that it had to happen, but it had to happen. Why did it have to happen? This is not the way we make change in this country by rioting and that kind of thing. Now, many of

4:15 the people who rioted were angry because of what happened, but this is not a political policy to have. And yet he continues to say it, and then his people say that you’re talking about something he said five years ago. Well, I haven’t heard him change it for five years, so why can’t I say it. So that’s basically where things stand.

4:36 Looking back on it, John, I like the fact that we tried to change something, and maybe even if it didn’t change right away, people will think about it towards the end of the year when we turn out to be right.

4:48 Speaker 1 Well, Governor, the way we phrased it, the Judge and you did most of the talking. The fact is, let’s give it till September and see how things sort themselves out. Two things could happen. People might realize that Madami is not the person they think he is, and he may destroy himself, or he may blow up, or second one

5:15 of the other Democratic candidates will exceed the other one. But I think by September, when people get time to focus, which will be sixty days seventy days before election day, I think we’ll be able to know better. But at least we took a whack at it to try to make common sense prevail.

5:40 Speaker 2 John, I think it’s absolutely true, and I think another thing is going to happen in September, is that people are really going to drill down on what may happen should neither of those two candidates get out of the race.

5:56 And honestly, if they both don’t out of the race and Mamdani wins, I think they’re going to draw a lot of criticism because it will. It’s the responsibility of these two candidates right now to either get out or not get out. And I don’t think that it’s fair to order anyone to get out of a race, but

6:18 I think it’s fair to tell them what’s going to happen if they stay in.

6:22 Speaker 1 Absolutely, Governor David Pattison, thank you for giving all of us an update and keep talking common sense to people because at the end of the day, God will make common sense prevail.

6:36 Speaker 2 Well, John, I agree with you, and I’ll talk to you again next Sunday. By then maybe I’ll be in the race. Why not