White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump has made his views on the New York City mayoral race “pretty clear.”
“The president is a New Yorker and he loves New York. He has made it very clear what he thinks about this election,” Leavitt said.
Leavitt also addressed Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s comments, accusing the Trump administration of attempting to “intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud,” saying his comments were “based on zero evidence.”
“I think this is just another example of how the Democratic Party unfortunately doesn’t stand for anything. All they oppose is President Donald Trump, and I think it’s pretty sad to see that we have someone at the top of the ticket on Election Day today saying such things about the president, when obviously he had nothing to do with those threats,” Leavitt said Tuesday.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on November 4, 2025 in Washington.
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On Tuesday, Mamdani addressed reports of voter intimidation in New Jersey, saying these incidents are “incredibly concerning.”
“I think it’s an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy,” he continued, accusing the Trump administration of taking a “blanket approach” of trying to “intimidate voters with baseless accusations of voter fraud as a means of trying to stifle the voice of Americans across this country,” Mamdani said.
Trump endorsed Cuomo on Monday in a social media post. “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You should vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job,” Trump wrote.
