Even as New York City mayoral-race polls started to point to a victory for Zohran Mamdani Tuesday night, Andrew Cuomo’s biggest fans refused to give up the fight. One of the most recognizable faces advocating for Cuomo in his final push was Debra Messing, who has spent the past 48 hours posting Islamophobic content and misinformation about Mamdani on her Instagram Story.
Messing participated in early voting last week, writing in a post that she opted for Cuomo because “we need someone with experience.” “Our city is too massive, complex, and consequential to have someone 33 years old who has never held a job, and missed 80% of his votes as Councilman,” Messing wrote on Instagram. “Perhaps with more experience. But not now.”
Her reposts on Election Day, however, showed a much more extreme perspective. Before the race was called, Messing, who is Jewish and a staunch advocate for Israel, shared a barrage of graphics and videos warning Jewish people not to vote for Mamdani owing to his pro-Palestine beliefs. When she wasn’t fearmongering in that direction, she was being blatantly Islamophobic. One graphic she reposted read, “A vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani is a vote for New-York-Stan.” Another featured a ballot on which the options were “A Democrat” and “An Actual Communist Jihadist … A literal Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist.” (This image was also posted to X on Monday by none other than Senator Ted Cruz.) It’s worth noting Mamdani is not a communist but a democratic socialist.
On Monday, Messing shared a post from an account called @joanofjudea, which claimed that while Judaism and Christianity encourage honesty, Muslims are “commanded to lie if it means spreading Islam.” “He’s revealing their goal: Mass conversion,” the post read. “These two opposing civilizations cannot coexist.”
Other posts that appeared on Messing’s Story came from conservative outlets such as CPAC, Breitbart, and Newsmax. She also shared multiple posts about President Donald Trump endorsing Cuomo, as well as screenshots of Trump’s Truth Social posts about the election, including one in which he wrote, “Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!” Mamdani has condemned antisemitism many times throughout his campaign.
https://www.thecut.com/article/debra-messing-nyc-mayor-election-mamdani-trump.htmlWhat a complete asshole. This is Rosanne territory. Maybe worse. I’m sure she has her fans, though.
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