Forget Miami Beach — think Cleveland as your escape route from life in New York City under a Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
That’s the pitch from Vivek Ramaswamy, running to be the next governor of Ohio. He’s put up a billboard in Times Square wooing frightened New Yorkers to the Buckeye State.
Take a deep breath, New Yorkers. We don’t need Ohio as our Mamdani emergency exit.
The best remedy is to turn out and vote in November.
Many New Yorkers alarmed by Mamdani’s Marxist convictions, defund-the-police history and anti-Israel rhetoric seem convinced he’s impossible to beat.
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With so many general election candidates — Republican Curtis Sliwa, Mayor Eric Adams, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others — splitting the anti-Mamdani vote, the thinking goes, the socialist’s victory is inevitable.
That’s wrong: Mamdani can be defeated by surging voter turnout, even if all