The communist wave sweeping Gotham and beyond could be enough to motivate Dave Portnoy to sacrifice ocean views for a run at City Hall.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) has only been in office for six months, and already his impact on the Big Apple and the politics of his party has people considering kicking him to the curb outside Gracie Mansion. The Barstool Sports founder counted himself among them Monday on “Jesse Watters Primetime” when he admitted, “If I was gonna run, it would be here.”
When Fox News host Jesse Watters brought up the push from Mamdani-aligned politicians for “revolution” and how their policies could impact his business headquartered in New York, Portnoy described himself as “nervous, scared, shocked” before stating, “So, I’ve always thought I would never get involved in politics. I think you can do more in the private sector. This and what is going on has actually made me pause that thought.”
“I was saying to you that old Plato quote, if you don’t do your public service and run for office, you’re doomed to be run by basically dummies. And right now I feel like that’s what’s happening,” he went on while promoting his new book, “Cancel Me If You Can.”
According to an analysis of the 2025 election by NYC Votes, of the more than 5 million registered voters throughout the five boroughs, little more than 2 million made it to the polls, amounting to 41.6%. Even with that much apathy, it still proved the highest turnout in over 50 years.
“Now, not everyone’s getting out to vote,” Portnoy told Watters. “I think what the Democrats have done is they’ve let the fox into the henhouse.”
Admitting it’s a “scary time” between Mamdani and the campaign of “Nazi” Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner and others, he added, “Sometimes I do feel like it’s my duty. I can’t turn away. I feel like I could make a change; maybe I do run in politics. So I don’t know.”
Asked directly by the host, “You might run against Mamdani?” Portnoy hedged over consideration of leaving Nantucket, “If I was gonna run, it would be here. Can I win here? I have no idea. I don’t know the demographics, whether I’d get enough votes.”
“There’s a lot of people who like me in New York City. I know that. I’ve done a lot of good in New York City when I wasn’t thinking about politics, whether it was the Barstool Fun, pizza places. So, it wasn’t for show. I’ve had a real job. I’ve done real things unlike these clown politicians who have never had a job and never been in the real world for a day,” he argued before pointing to a problem in the ideology of the voters who do show up. “But the people voting for these people that just won are like these young, white, like, Ivy League-ish, elite-ish women. It’s like, who are they? Like, they’ll never vote for me. They’ll never believe in common sense.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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