June 26, 2025 • 7 mins
Hank Sheinkopf speaks with Mendte in the Morning about Zohran Mamdani winning the Democrat nominee for the NYC Mayor and how the Dem party got to this point.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'm looking forward to talking to Hank Shinkoff.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're going to get into him in.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
One second, but I want to play a talkback only
because it relates to what we'll be talking to Hank about.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good morning. I don't understand the democratic socialist nonsense. What
are we, Hurtz Penske, what is it? A? Are we
sugar coating it? Just call it what it is. Run
as a socialist if that's what you'd want to be,
Actually run as a start a new party, the Communist Party,
(00:29):
if you want to be transparent.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, The only thing I'm going to say is that
the Communist Party probably wouldn't be a new party. But
who would know more about that than me, as Hank
schykof longtime democratic consultant and political consultant. Hank, let me
start before you get Before you go ahead and respond
to the talkback, which I'd love you to do, I
just want to know what your reaction was Tuesday night
(00:53):
when the results came in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, look, Hank Shinkoff said, if you listen to the radios,
the TVs and everybody else less to this in January,
that Salton Mndonne could win this thing. So I'm not
surprised what I think. I think that the demographics of
New York City have now been substituted for by age
as the more important demographic. This is a reflection of
(01:18):
the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party that has nothing new
to say and in fact has been taken over by
socialist And there's about young people who have never born
a burden or paid a price, or done the dirty
work of democracy, nor cared to who have decided that
they have a due bill, and that someone who was
not even born in this country, hasn't lived here most
(01:38):
all his life, has never also paid a price, though
born a burden is the one they need to defend
themselves against what against having to pay the price and democracy,
and it's an very extraordinary thing to do. The Democrats
have failed because they think they thought that the way
to deal with Trump was to sit on the sidelines
and do nothing. But the Bernie Sanders AOC wing had
a very different view and the end result is that
(02:00):
they're candidate for mayor of New York City, won the race.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Won the primary, and that's a little bit easier for
him to win than in the general election. If he
continues by claiming to be a socialist that's going to
give free everything and have the rich pay for it.
Can he win the general election?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It depends if the young people turn out. I mean
they are the ones that are propelled into office. It
depends how upset people are and how much education they have.
Not in a negative way, but it's just a clear
discussion about what Zoemandami's programs mean, what his idea about
(02:43):
public policy could portend. That's the job of the campaign.
Can Can he be defeated today? It's going to be tough.
Curtis Lee, if you were a New York Patriot and
he is a New York Patriots, should really drop out
of the race, get find Eric Adams and win the thing,
because he's not going to win. No one's going to
vote for guiding beat. He's a very nice fella who
has some ideas, but it has never managed anything you
(03:06):
know of consequence. I mean, this is not it's not
going to work. You need you need to give Adams
the opportunity to make his case, and that is just
a fact. Can you win? Can Adams win? The answers
yes if if they run a smart campaign. The Pomo
campaign failed, Because the Pomo campaign failed simple. You know,
campaigns make the difference, and the campaign was did not
(03:29):
do what it was supposed to nothing because they lost because
you knew that it was not it wasn't working. The
polling kept shifting right, and it also tells you about
the failure of polling. You know, you have a particular style,
usual gang of inbeciles who said that Joe Crowley was
up by I think fifty one points. They keep doing
the same thing and keep coming up with Folse numbers
and no one says, wait, you're wrong. I also think
(03:49):
this was a world result and I hope will wipe
out a people with a political consulting business who produce
crappy ads, do crappy work and should not be paid
to do this, and embarrass everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'll tell you what, Emerson Poll's looking really good right now.
A little shout out to them because they called it.
They said he was going to not buy this much.
They thought it was going to begin the eighth round,
but they said Mam Donnie was going to win at
the very end. But you're right, there was an excitement,
especially among Democratic voters between the ages of twenty five
and thirty five. Is there going to be enough of
(04:24):
them in the general election. When you're going to have
a much larger group of people coming out in a
highly competitive election, that's going to get national attention.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We don't know that yet. Why the Mandommie campaign was
extraordinarily well organized. People working, families, party and people from
all over the country were paid to show up here.
There were canvases on the street from the beginning. The
number to watch that no one paid attention to was
early voting. And instead of looking at it smartly, which
(04:58):
is who was coming out and where. By doing that,
I mean posters pull pull samples from the same houses
so they can do polling right. Instead of looking at
what we call they were looking at four out of
fours people have voted in the last four elections. For
the last three elections. I suggested a post a friend
of mine that they looked at one out of one,
out of fours, two out of fours younger people because
they're the ones who turned out to vote early. They
(05:19):
were very well organized. This is very much what was
done in other cities that have gone into the toilet
where ranked where woke DA's and woke officials have been elected,
and this is what New York City can look forward
to an attempt by outsiders to take it over and
to put Mandami whose silverspoon Mondamie is really what his
name should be. Never never put a callous on that hand.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, you're right. I will tell you one thing that
I noticed just recently. It was in his concession speech,
and then again he did it when he was interviewed
on an eyewitness news. He's now talking about Trump a lot,
and I thought that was an interesting shift because I'm
certain that's what he's going to use against Mayor Eric Adams,
and he's already started that campaign. That would be effective, right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Adams. Let's see, Trump is probably an eighty five percent
negative in New York City right now, and using Trump
against Adams would be very smart. We know now that
accusing Mondomi being an anti semi doesn't work with young
people because they don't care. But talking about the globalised,
the anti father, you can call it whatever you want,
but it means exactly what it says. You should note.
(06:27):
I think that this is the end of Jewish New
York and ethnic New York as we know it. It
is over. The white ethics don't have to say that
they used to they've been replaced, and the children who
are just who have effectively been as responsible as developers
for the destructional affordable housing in New York City by
gentrifying neighborhoods right right then jacking up the cost so
they can earn on properties. Park Slope of hypocrites are
(06:49):
a classic example. And how many of them have rentals
and those brownstones. That's the world of Brad Lander. Who's
likely to be Brad Lander pro boycott, investment of sanctions
control New York City is likely to be a deputy
mayor in the Mondami administration. Oh, absolutely, yeah, they really
deserve each other.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hanks Shinkaff, longtime democratic consultant and political consultant. We hope
to talk to you, Hank. Right through the campaign. You
were great. Thanks a lot, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thanks for having me and I appreciate you
Well, I'm looking forward to talking to Hank Shinkoff.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We're going to get into him in.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
One second, but I want to play a talkback only
because it relates to what we'll be talking to Hank about.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good morning. I don't understand the democratic socialist nonsense. What
are we, Hurtz Penske, what is it? A? Are we
sugar coating it? Just call it what it is. Run
as a socialist if that's what you'd want to be,
Actually run as a start a new party, the Communist Party,
(00:29):
if you want to be transparent.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Right, The only thing I'm going to say is that
the Communist Party probably wouldn't be a new party. But
who would know more about that than me, as Hank
schykof longtime democratic consultant and political consultant. Hank, let me
start before you get Before you go ahead and respond
to the talkback, which I'd love you to do, I
just want to know what your reaction was Tuesday night
(00:53):
when the results came in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, look, Hank Shinkoff said, if you listen to the radios,
the TVs and everybody else less to this in January,
that Salton Mndonne could win this thing. So I'm not
surprised what I think. I think that the demographics of
New York City have now been substituted for by age
as the more important demographic. This is a reflection of
(01:18):
the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party that has nothing new
to say and in fact has been taken over by
socialist And there's about young people who have never born
a burden or paid a price, or done the dirty
work of democracy, nor cared to who have decided that
they have a due bill, and that someone who was
not even born in this country, hasn't lived here most
(01:38):
all his life, has never also paid a price, though
born a burden is the one they need to defend
themselves against what against having to pay the price and democracy,
and it's an very extraordinary thing to do. The Democrats
have failed because they think they thought that the way
to deal with Trump was to sit on the sidelines
and do nothing. But the Bernie Sanders AOC wing had
a very different view and the end result is that
(02:00):
they're candidate for mayor of New York City, won the race.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Won the primary, and that's a little bit easier for
him to win than in the general election. If he
continues by claiming to be a socialist that's going to
give free everything and have the rich pay for it.
Can he win the general election?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It depends if the young people turn out. I mean
they are the ones that are propelled into office. It
depends how upset people are and how much education they have.
Not in a negative way, but it's just a clear
discussion about what Zoemandami's programs mean, what his idea about
(02:43):
public policy could portend. That's the job of the campaign.
Can Can he be defeated today? It's going to be tough.
Curtis Lee, if you were a New York Patriot and
he is a New York Patriots, should really drop out
of the race, get find Eric Adams and win the thing,
because he's not going to win. No one's going to
vote for guiding beat. He's a very nice fella who
has some ideas, but it has never managed anything you
(03:06):
know of consequence. I mean, this is not it's not
going to work. You need you need to give Adams
the opportunity to make his case, and that is just
a fact. Can you win? Can Adams win? The answers
yes if if they run a smart campaign. The Pomo
campaign failed, Because the Pomo campaign failed simple. You know,
campaigns make the difference, and the campaign was did not
(03:29):
do what it was supposed to nothing because they lost because
you knew that it was not it wasn't working. The
polling kept shifting right, and it also tells you about
the failure of polling. You know, you have a particular style,
usual gang of inbeciles who said that Joe Crowley was
up by I think fifty one points. They keep doing
the same thing and keep coming up with Folse numbers
and no one says, wait, you're wrong. I also think
(03:49):
this was a world result and I hope will wipe
out a people with a political consulting business who produce
crappy ads, do crappy work and should not be paid
to do this, and embarrass everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'll tell you what, Emerson Poll's looking really good right now.
A little shout out to them because they called it.
They said he was going to not buy this much.
They thought it was going to begin the eighth round,
but they said Mam Donnie was going to win at
the very end. But you're right, there was an excitement,
especially among Democratic voters between the ages of twenty five
and thirty five. Is there going to be enough of
(04:24):
them in the general election. When you're going to have
a much larger group of people coming out in a
highly competitive election, that's going to get national attention.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
We don't know that yet. Why the Mandommie campaign was
extraordinarily well organized. People working, families, party and people from
all over the country were paid to show up here.
There were canvases on the street from the beginning. The
number to watch that no one paid attention to was
early voting. And instead of looking at it smartly, which
(04:58):
is who was coming out and where. By doing that,
I mean posters pull pull samples from the same houses
so they can do polling right. Instead of looking at
what we call they were looking at four out of
fours people have voted in the last four elections. For
the last three elections. I suggested a post a friend
of mine that they looked at one out of one,
out of fours, two out of fours younger people because
they're the ones who turned out to vote early. They
(05:19):
were very well organized. This is very much what was
done in other cities that have gone into the toilet
where ranked where woke DA's and woke officials have been elected,
and this is what New York City can look forward
to an attempt by outsiders to take it over and
to put Mandami whose silverspoon Mondamie is really what his
name should be. Never never put a callous on that hand.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, you're right. I will tell you one thing that
I noticed just recently. It was in his concession speech,
and then again he did it when he was interviewed
on an eyewitness news. He's now talking about Trump a lot,
and I thought that was an interesting shift because I'm
certain that's what he's going to use against Mayor Eric Adams,
and he's already started that campaign. That would be effective, right.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Adams. Let's see, Trump is probably an eighty five percent
negative in New York City right now, and using Trump
against Adams would be very smart. We know now that
accusing Mondomi being an anti semi doesn't work with young
people because they don't care. But talking about the globalised,
the anti father, you can call it whatever you want,
but it means exactly what it says. You should note.
(06:27):
I think that this is the end of Jewish New
York and ethnic New York as we know it. It
is over. The white ethics don't have to say that
they used to they've been replaced, and the children who
are just who have effectively been as responsible as developers
for the destructional affordable housing in New York City by
gentrifying neighborhoods right right then jacking up the cost so
they can earn on properties. Park Slope of hypocrites are
(06:49):
a classic example. And how many of them have rentals
and those brownstones. That's the world of Brad Lander. Who's
likely to be Brad Lander pro boycott, investment of sanctions
control New York City is likely to be a deputy
mayor in the Mondami administration. Oh, absolutely, yeah, they really
deserve each other.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Hanks Shinkaff, longtime democratic consultant and political consultant. We hope
to talk to you, Hank. Right through the campaign. You
were great. Thanks a lot, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thanks for having me and I appreciate you
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