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There is an article in the New York Post that says Andrew Cuomo's mayoral bid has already raised about 2.3 million from political action committees, including real estate money. Now, I predicted this earlier in the month. Roll it. The only way Curtis beats him is if Curtis can get enough money. All right? And that's not easy in New York City because all the real estate guys, they're going to go with who they think is going to win, which is Cuomo. Now, you don't have to be a genius to know that. And we're talking about Curtis Sliwa running on a Republican ticket. Of course, the only mitigating factor here is that there will be three Democrats in the primary. And it might drain a little bit of money from Andrew Cuomo. But this has been going on since Boss Tweed. Remember Boss Tweed? If you don't know him, look him up. He ran New York City, and he was a powerful guy, but it's been going on since then. And that the real estate people, they kind of choose who the next governor of the power players gonna be, and they pump money in. And that means all the difference because you can buy television spots, radio spots, you can get a staff together, you can canvas from neighborhood to neighborhood. And then, look, Cuomo knows all these people from being governor. So billionaire Steven Ross, okay, he gave $50,000 to see Cuomo win the mayoralt. He owns the Miami Dolphins. A billionaire John Fish, 250,000 bucks to Cuomo, okay? He's up in New England, got a big construction company there, but they all have real estate in Manhattan. And on and on and on and on. I have a list. So the fat cats, they like Andrew Cuomo, and they know that Mayor Adams is on skids and he's going to have a hard time raising money. Now, Curtis is going to have to raise money from the folks because many of us are fed up with the danger and the collapse of civility in New York City and the high taxation. I mean, it just goes on and on and on and on. It never stops. And Curtis would run as, you know, a conservative choice. So he'll have to go into the Staten Islands and certain precincts in Brooklyn and the Bronx, the Queens, to get the folks to give him money. And it's not going to be easy, as I said. So I do, at this point expect Andrew Cuomo to be the next mayor. I think that will happen, but it's not a lock because there's so much uncertainty about the candidates themselves. But the money is already flowing to Andrew. I don't know how he's going to fix the cops, the legislature in Albany. Hochul is so left wing. And Cuomo, you know, he'll go as left as you want. He's the Nobel guy. But that's in the past and that's not going to hurt him. People think that the so called scandals surrounding Governor Cuomo are going to hurt him now. They're not. People want relief. Capital are relief. They got to bring back Boss Tweed to get it. They're going to do that, okay? Because it's not good in the, on the streets of New York City, anywhere, anywhere everybody's afraid is filthy, dirty rats. We got to clean this place up. And people think that because Cuomo has all this experience that he could get it done. And Adams has failed. There's no doubt he has dealt a terrible hand by the worst mayor in New York City history, de Blasio. But Governor Adams has not risen up, okay? He's not Donald Trump. Trump came off the second worst president ever. And he's trying, trying. But I don't see Adams anywhere close to that.