New York Mayor Eric Adams did not mince his words about his disapproval of what he called the large number of “nasty” Gen Z voters supporting Zhoran Mamdani, the democratic socialist candidate leading the race for NYC mayor.

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    It should be etched in law that it’s prohibited to call the voters of your rival anything bad as it only serves to cause a division in the country.

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      I like the idea, but the First Amendment exists so idiots can say dumb things like this out in the open and we can all point and laugh.

      Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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        “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

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          And then they doubled down. It gave them such a strong rallying cry ot might have been one of the biggest factors of her losing

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            ot might have been one of the biggest factors of her losing

            Besides Cambridge Analytica and foreign interference.

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            Nearly 3 million more people voted for her than Trump. Ithe hard to say any 1 thing was the reason. It’s just as easy to say there was a percentage of the population that wouldn’t vote for a woman and that flipped enough purple states at the time.