Hizzoner … Dave Portnoy?
Barstool owner Dave Portnoy said that he’d consider running for elected office over his frustrations with current Big Apple leadership — adding he’d “love to run against” Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“I would love to run against him. If I were gonna run, it would be here,” Portnoy said when asked if he’d consider a run against New York City’s democratic socialist mayor on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday night.
The One Bite Pizza reviewer told host Jesse Watters that he previously thought he “would never get involved in politics,” but that the threat of being ruled by “dummies” has him reconsidering his position.
“I spend a lot of my day losing my mind with what’s happening, especially in New York,” Portnoy said.
He also blasted the Democrat Party, criticizing the growing spate of lefty socialists who’ve won big in recent elections under its banner.
“What the Democrats have done is they’ve let the fox into the hen house. And now he’s just running rampant and kicking them all out,” Portnoy said in a veiled swing at Mamdani.
Three far-left Congressional candidates backed by the mayor won their primaries last Tuesday, knocking out their establishment Democrat opponents.
The New England native admitted that his thoughts on entering politics change based on the day.
Some days, he said he has no desire to get into its “mess.”
On other days, civic-mindedness has gotten the better of the man nicknamed “El Presidente.”
“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,” Portnoy said.
As for his political bona fides, Portnoy said that he’s had “a real job” and “done real things.”
“Unlike these clown politicians who have never had a job and who’ve never been in the real world for a day,” he added.
But would the Massachusetts resident be successful in New York? He thinks that question is still up in the air.
“Can I win here? I don’t know. I don’t know the demographics, if I could get enough votes,” Portnoy told Watters.
“There’s a lot of people who like me in New York City. I know that,” he said.
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