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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration was considering taking over governance of Washington, D.C., and suggested he could take similar action in New York because of his distaste for the leading candidate for mayor there.
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Trump discussed New York City's mayoral race during a Cabinet meeting but said he was 'not getting involved' in endorsing any candidates.
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Republicans made a right turn at “states’ rights are no longer a priority,” and arrived at “we don’t much care about local control, either.”
Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman representing northwest Queens, last month shocked the political establishment by trouncing the longtime front-runner, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose name recognition, experience and support of billionaires and corporations, made him the favorite.