On Friday night, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a new, combative strategy for his general election campaign against Zohran Mamdani. On X, he attacked the avowed socialist for bragging about living in a $2,300 rent controlled apartment despite coming from a wealthy family, marrying a wealthy woman, and earning over $200,000 annually.

“You’ve had weddings on 3 continents,” Cuomo wrote. “You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda… Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich. Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it. We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis… Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.”