New Yorkers are not about to elect a mayor who makes a common cause with Donald Trump

When John Lindsay presented himself to re -election as mayor of New York in 1969, he recognized the mood of the city and the nation. He linked his frank opposition to the Vietnam War increasingly unpopular to the criticism of his campaign on federal policies which diverted money from municipal needs in the chests of the Pentagon. “The military-industrial complex,” said Lindsay, was “opposed to the needs of the people”.

This was not suitable for his republican colleagues, who a year earlier had evaluated her enough to consider putting the young and dynamic New York on their presidential ticket. The mayor has shortly lost the 1969 GOP Primary against the Senator of the right state, John Marchi, the same day that the Democrats appointed their own reactionary, the city controller, Mario Procaccino.

Some New York Republicans, such as the American senator Jacob Javits and the Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, remained with Lindsay. Javits went so far as to warn that the defeat of the liberal holder would lead to the “descent of the city in terms of racial relations” and would create an opening for “the forces of oppression and repression”. But republican president Richard Nixon and Vice-President Spiro Agnew supported Marchi. Nixon did it by Loyalty of the Party (and a measure of the envious disdain for the charisma and national stature of Lindsay), while the increasingly explosive Agnew enjoyed the possibility of attacking a high level member of the Liberal Wing of the Party. Positioning himself as a right-wing populist, the vice-president embarked on a crusade against war criticism such as Lindsay and the urban supporters of the two AGNEW parties rejected as a “effect of intellectual snobs”.

Marchi welcomed the support of Nixon and Agnew – but not as much as Lindsay.

The president’s opposition and reactionary vice-president of his party has turned out to be a perfect sale argument for Lindsay, when he decided to build a multiracial progressive coalition for his fall offer on the voting line of the small but influence the liberal party of the city. After all, the Nixon-Amnew ticket had won only 34% of New York’s vote in the 1968 presidential election. Nixon’s rejection enabled Lindsay, a long-standing republican, to maintain the support of progressive Republicans while calling on Democrats and independents. And it worked. Lindsay beat his nearest rival (Procccino) by 180,000 votes and beat the candidate of Nixon by nearly 500,000 votes.

Far from helping him, the bonds of the White House of Marchi undoubtedly did damage – four in five New Yorkers rejected the GOP candidate in 1969.

Fast advance from 56 years to 2025. Another Republican White House became interested in another New York mayor race. This year’s competition appeases Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani against a certain number of rivals, including the man he beat in the June primary in June, former governor Andrew Cuomo; The mayor seated Eric Adams; Republican Curtis Sliwa; and lawyer Jim Walden.

This week, The New York Times Republican President Donald Trump reported a sort of intervention in the New York competition to try to stop Mamdani, socialist and democratic critic of the president. It was not exactly a shock, because Trump did not hide his disdain for Mamdani, which the president falsely called “communist” and threatened to arrest and potentially expel (despite the fact that Mamdani is an American citizen). What was Notable was the Times“Report that” during a call previously not disclosed in recent weeks, Trump spoke directly about the race with Mr. Cuomo, an old partner and leaf, according to three people informed of the call, who were not allowed to discuss it. “Thursday, the Times reported that Cuomo told a group of business leaders: “I know, personally, he does not want to fight with me. Personally, I don’t want to fight with him, right? So I don’t think it will be impatient to create a conflict. “