• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    What are you talking about? He lost the Democratic nomination to Mamdani. Now he has to run as an independent.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_effect

    He knows exactly what he’s doing

    Primaries are held by parties. It’s not entrance into the general election. Anyone with the cash can run as any party they choose.

    Yep, and a losing candidate can choose to participate in the general to ensure the opposing party wins by splitting the vote, which is what the establishment Dems do when a progressive successfully primaries the…

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      18 hours ago

      It’s literally ranked choice voting. There is hardly any spoiler effect unless there are so many candidates you couldn’t possibly find the one’s you want to vote for.

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      19 hours ago

      First of all, if Cuomo runs as an independent, he’ll make Adams the spoiler to his platform. Secondly, there are only ~350k millionaires in NYC. They’re the ones who will be taxed more by Mamdani’s plan. You’re acting like the city is run by them, but we got the numbers. We just need to show up and vote.