Disgraced former New York congressman George Santos dramatically introduced he’ll flee the Large Apple after socialist Zohran Mamdani received the mayoral election.
“Good luck, New York. It was good understanding you,” the pardoned Republican stated in a video he posted on X hours after the Democratic socialist’s win was confirmed.
“After 37 years, I’m out,” he stated. “I’d slightly the evil I do know than the evil I don’t wish to know.”Santos, who was jailed, then pardoned, for scamming donors and identification theft, had teased the transfer even earlier than fellow Queens resident Mamdani received.
He’d beforehand stated that “sadly it appears that evidently my household and I shall be departing town I’ve referred to as residence my total life.”
“NYC will turn into a really harmful place to reside in if we elect mayor Mamdani and that could be a danger I’m unwilling to take now that I wish to begin rising my household,” he wrote on Oct. 22 in a put up now seen practically 13 million occasions.
Santos stated the election got here right down to basic math, once more blaming Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa for ignoring the numbers and refusing to drop out, ruining ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s probabilities of defeating Mamdani.
“That’s only a dangerous instance of delusion, greed, self-aggrandizing, and most significantly, the advisor class, after they put all of that first as an alternative of the folks,” Santos stated of Sliwa.
“Cuomo was by far a flawed candidate, horrible human being, however significantly better than what we simply landed ourselves with. I slightly the evil I do know than the evil I don’t wish to know,” he stated.
The serial liar stated Sliwa “by no means” might have received the race.
“Curtis Sliwa couldn’t see what all of us noticed months in the past and begged him to think about to place himself apart and put town first,” he added.
Mamdani secured 50.4% of the vote, adopted by Cuomo, who ran as an impartial, at 41.6%.
Sliwa acquired simply 7.1% of New Yorker’s votes.
