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The Mary Sue
Sanchari Ghosh

Elon Musk flips just a week after he called Zohran Mamdani the ‘future of the Democratic Party’

Donald Trump and the Republicans are feeling the pressure of the NYC mayoral elections. With multiple sources predicting a win for “communist” and “socialist” Zohran Mamdani over sexual assaulter Andrew Cuomo and Republican representative Curtis Sliwa, billionaires like Elon Musk are doing everything they can to sway the results in their favour.

On November 4, the day of the NYC mayoral elections, Elon Musk made a last-minute effort to influence voters by posting on X (formerly Twitter), urging people to vote for Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. He also cautioned against voting for Curtis Sliwa, noting that a vote for him would technically mean voting for Zohran Mamdani or as he likes to call him, “Mumdumi”.

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