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President Donald Trump, Seeking to defeat the candidate for the Democratic Party Zohran Mammani in the high-profile elections in Mary New York, calls on opponents.

“I don’t think you can win if you have one,” Trump told reporters before the White House dinner with the leading heads of the technology industry on Thursday night.

Mammani, a 33-year-old state legislator born Uganda from Ugandan state legislator from New York City, who received the glory for his history of communist and anti-Semitic rhetoric, shocked the political world in June when he won the former New York government. Andrew kuom And nine other candidates twice to seize the Democratic Mary nomination.

Kuoma, who resigned as a governor in 2021 amid several scandals, works in a general election as an independent candidate. Also, Mayor Eric Adams, who is in a combat leadership, which announced earlier this year, will bypass the democratic major against the background of the approval ratings.

Mammani and Kuom’s debate over Mary’s discussions in New York

Former Governor of Democratic Governor Andrew Kuom, running for Mary New York as an independent candidate, holds a press conference on August 18, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

Also in the Bulletin-Basic of the Guardian Angels Curtis plumWhich is the second direct election – a candidate for the Republican mayor.

But Mammani is a clear leadership in the city where Democrats dominate the political landscape. And the victory in November will make it the first Muslim and first millennial mayor of the country in the country.

Mammani rose to the primary victory thanks to the energetic company, which made great attention to the availability and high cost of life in New York. It was fueled by grassroots army supporters and support from leading national progressive champions, including Res. Alexandria Okosio Corces New York and Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont.

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And Mammani wisely used social media platforms, including Tiktok when he was engaged in voters with low sensitivity. Its distant left offers include elimination of tariffs for a trip New York A large bus system that makes Cuny (City University of New York) “without training”, freezing rent in municipal housing, offering “free child care” for children under 5 years and the creation of state grocery stores.

On Sunday, August 17, 2025, the nominee of the Mayor of the Democratic Party of the New York, Zohran Mamdani, gave a supporters at the Prospect Park Avenue, August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)

Trump, a native of New York, who now calls Florida, once again weighed on the race, saying: “I would like two people to fall out and it will be one. And I think it’s a race that can be won.”

The president also confirmed his statement that Mammani was a communist.

“I prefer not to have a communist mayor of New York. And, you know, it’s what it is based on your policy. If you look at his statements in the past,” Trump said.

The White House is silent on the report that Trump’s allies were weighed by attracting Adams to administration in Mamman trimming

Trump did not say what candidates he would like to see to refuse. And the journalists asked if it was recommended for any of the mayors to get out of the race, Trump said, “No.”

Trump’s best advisers are trying to persuade Adams and plum to get out of the race by offering them positions in the Presidential Administration, New York Times It was reported this week.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday that he wants “two people to refuse” to create a “one-on-one” with Zohran Mamdani in New York. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

And NEW YORK POST It was reported that Trump wants the candidates to worship until next week.

The New York Times and the New York Post also report that Adams told a small group of friends and advisers that he is considering the opportunity to find employment who will push him to suspend his mayor’s re -election campaign.

And both newspapers also reported that being in Florida on Tuesday, Adams met With Trump’s main envoy and advisor Steve Witco.

But the mayor and his campaign repeated publicly that he does not get out of the race.

On Monday, August 18, 2025, Mayor Eric Adams issued a public security statement at Styten -Ailled. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)

“Without throwing away,” said the Fox News SHAPIRA press secretary, Henry Nakari.

On Friday, Adams doubled, saying in his statement: “I am still running for the re -election.”

But in the fact that it appears to be a confirmation of the reported proposal for work in the Trump administration, the mayor wrote: “While I will always listen when calling to serve our country, no official proposals have been made.”

Last month, SLIWA emphasized in the digital interview Fox News: “I do not go out. I am the main candidate for the party. Let the independents play music chairs and decide who to refuse.”

In recent days, he reiterated that he did not go out and stated that he was not interested in working in the Trump administration.

Kuoma, talking to journalists on Thursday, stated that “there was no idea” whether there were reports on Trump trying to clear the field for him accurate, and he said he did not talk to Trump and Adams.

“I don’t know anything about these assumptions,” the former governor said.

Trump’s comments to the Merovo race came a few hours after Kuoma disputed Mammani on five different debates in all five New York storms.

Kuoma claimed that Mammani could not “give a direct answer” to journalists’ questions and changed his mind “to all” to all he said in the company’s way.

“If you try to ask (Mamdani) the question, he just won’t answer, and he will blossom. And frankly, you guys let him get out of it,” Kuom said. “I will not let him get away with that. And the New York will not let him get out of it.”

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But Mammani retreated back with his own: Trump discussions.

“Let’s cut out the average person. Why should I discuss Donald Trump’s puppet if I could discuss myself Donald Trump?” Mamdani told Fox News Digital in a statement. “When Donald Trump is serious about interference with the mayor’s race, he must come to New York and discuss me directly about why he reducing the benefits for hungry New York to give tax benefits to his wealthy donors.”

Meanwhile, in its fundraising skills, Mamdani on Friday announced that it has officially reached the cost of $ 8 million in New York and said it urges fans to stop donating.

Fox News’ Courtney de George contributed to this report.