Peloni: Alan describes himself as an enemy of the Democratic party. He also hopes to see Curt Sliwa or Andrew Cuomo drop out of the race. If Mamdani is still successful in becoming mayor of NYC, Alan suggests that the focus shift towards seeing Mamdani’s agenda fail, thus preventing any successes on which the Democrats might build in the future. Alan also addresses the issue of antisemitism and in this he states the most important goal should be to see Israel keep winning.
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He mentions Richie Torres whom I forgot to mention, another pro-Israel Democrat from New York.
Early Voting starts Saturday and lasts for a week.
Marty Dolan
Richie Torres
Stephanie Ruskay
Adriano Espaillat
Micah Lasher
Spoiler Alert: Last Chance: The Democratic Primary is the actual election in New York City, with extremely rare exceptions. The General Election in November is just a rubber stamp.
Party affiliation doesn’t affect your choices in the General Election but New York is a closed primary state. You can register to vote a month before the General Election but if you change your party affiliation, it only takes effect after the next November General Election. Only voters registered in a party can vote in that party’s election.
That’s why in 2016, I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Democratic after the Republican primary so I could vote in that primary – After Mike Huckabee dropped out, I voted for Senator Ted Cruz, snd then I voted for Trump in the General election. So, I was able to vote against Israel’s enemies in the following year’s Democratic primary. There never are any Israelophobes in Republican primaries, on the infrequent occasions they hold them, so what’s the point, outside of presidential years? Empty Virtue Signaling? Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who had been a Democrat, and would later run for President in the Democratic primary as a Democrat, again, ran for mayor as a Republican, the first time, and then got re-elected running as an independent, the second time, just so he wouldn’t have to compete in a primary. He just got appointed.
I recall Trump expressing sympathy for independent Bernie Sanders supporters in 2016,who couldn’t vote for their candidate because they didn’t know this.
https://stephanieruskay.com/about
Her opponent, Eli Northrup, is endorsed by Bernie Sanders and the pro-BDS Working Families Party. Say no more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/nyregion/ruskay-jewish-primary-northrup.html
Informative Jewish Currents article even though the publication is edited by Peter Beinart. Stephanie Ruskay is endorsed by New York Solidarity Network.
https://jewishcurrents.org/republicans-are-helping-new-york-democrats-target-the-lefts-israel-criticism
He’s not worried he’ll fail but tbat he’ll succeed with his social welfare plans as Hitler did which gave him political capital to organize the Shoah. I agree.
Just before 12:57, he says that the world was a terrible place between 1932 and 1945 and ” in a couple of weeks we will read a Torah portion about how God considered destroying the world. ”
There is a little-known screwball comedy starring Jack Benny, called, “The Horn Blows at Midnight” (1945) ” about a studio musician who falls asleep while rehearsing for a radio coffee commercial and dreams that he is a bumbling angelic trumpeter in Heaven’s orchestra who is sent to earth to initiate the destruction of the world by blowing the opening measures of the Judgement Day Symphony but fallen angel musicians keep getting in his way.
It immediately died at the box office because it was eclipsed by the mourning ceremonies for FDR who had just died, one week after secretly promising the Saudi King to block Jewish immigration and statehood in Palestine despite just having got elected on a platform supporting both in imitation of and in competetion with the Republican platform of 1944, which did so first and after 12 years of blocking Jewish immigration to the U.S. and other countries and stymying rescue efforts.