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The N.Y.C. Republican Party has been moribund since former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg left the GOP in 2007 to run as an Independent and then use the GOP to win a third term in 2009.
Then in 2013, as Bloomberg was term-limited after three terms, the N.Y.C. G.O.P. nominated Joe Lhota, the former MTA boss, who was charisma-challenged and could not ride his former boss Rudy Giuliani's coattails in a changing demographics of the city. He lost in a landslide to De Blasio, the mayor.
Now, four years later, the N.Y.C. Republicans don't look too exciting as Lhota either. Paul Massey didn't live in the city, he worked in the city as a wealthy real estate developer. Assemblyman Nicole Malliotakis is not well known even in her own borough of Staten Island!!
I think chances are almost zero that De Blasio will lose the election to a Republican. Perhaps if the GOP had a strong candidate *and* Trump wasn't President they could have pulled it off. However, I think many New Yorkers consider De Blasio as a kind of fence around the city against Trump.
I think chances are almost zero that De Blasio will lose the election to a Republican. Perhaps if the GOP had a strong candidate *and* Trump wasn't President they could have pulled it off. However, I think many New Yorkers consider De Blasio as a kind of fence around the city against Trump.
Probably after Trump leaves in 2021 or 2025 a Republican could win in New York City...hmm
The N.Y.C. Republican Party has been moribund since former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg left the GOP in 2007 to run as an Independent and then use the GOP to win a third term in 2009.
Then in 2013, as Bloomberg was term-limited after three terms, the N.Y.C. G.O.P. nominated Joe Lhota, the former MTA boss, who was charisma-challenged and could not ride his former boss Rudy Giuliani's coattails in a changing demographics of the city. He lost in a landslide to De Blasio, the mayor.
Now, four years later, the N.Y.C. Republicans don't look too exciting as Lhota either. Paul Massey didn't live in the city, he worked in the city as a wealthy real estate developer. Assemblyman Nicole Malliotakis is not well known even in her own borough of Staten Island!!
Malliotakis is actually well known on Staten Island and also in Southern Brooklyn (she represents a slither of it - areas like Bay Ridge for example). I would vote for her over de Blasio in a heart beat. She is actually very young (in her early 30's), and should appeal to many people coming from an immigrant background (she is half Greek and half Cuban), so she can connect with the immigrant experience, but is still conservative. She takes a hard line about things like "gubment" handouts.
State of NYC Republican Party is the same as it has been for much of the past however-so-many decades. What people considered as strength of party on a city-wide level really boiled down to strength of candidate (i.e. Giuliani and Bloomberg). The City GOP continues to successfully field candidates in some more conservative leaning districts/Staten Island and even has a congressman in Rep. Donovan (why leftists are hellbent on defeating Donovan when his representation ensures that we have a voice in a GOP-controlled Congress . . . his presence is a good thing, not a bad thing to most rational people/people not driven by partisanship), but continues to struggle on a citywide basis given the leftist bent of the city.
Saw this taped onto the window of Queens Republican Club in early April. It stayed up for weeks. Last time I saw that place regularly open was in 2013 when Catsimitidis was running for Mayor.
Saw this taped onto the window of Queens Republican Club in early April. It stayed up for weeks. Last time I saw that place regularly open was in 2013 when Catsimitidis was running for Mayor.
Guilani and bloomberg were good. I wouldn't vote for a republican that supports trump.
He promised the northeast infrastructure but then wanted to cut amtrak. Against abortion too.
Need a more moderate republican with vision to build.
I think bloomberg running a 3rd term prevented nyc from getting a better mayor. People shouldn't depend on one person.
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