Dave Portnoy Celebrates Not Living in New York After Democratic Socialist Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory
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Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday, which did not please Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
Late last month, Portnoy revealed that he had conversations with the company’s “financiers” about the possibility of moving out of New York, and told them to “start looking at properties.”
“Honestly, I’ve thought about it a lot… about going to Hoboken or Jersey City or something like that,” Portnoy said on a livestream. “I don’t want to have a fucking office (in Manhattan).”
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Dave Portnoy is happy to no longer live in New York after Zohran Mamdani’s big win. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal/USA Today Network; Hiroko Masuike/Pool/News via Getty Images)
Portnoy’s nightmare has come true, as the 34-year-old democratic socialist will take office starting in January. The morning after the election, Portnoy basically shrugged.
“If this is what the people of New York want, then [sic] so be it. Thank God I don’t live there anymore,” he posted on X.
In an interview with News Business in July, Portnoy called Mamdani a “communist” and “one of the worst and scariest candidates.”
“He hates capitalism, he wants fundamental change in what this country has built, and he really doesn’t particularly hide it,” Portnoy said.
Dave Portnoy attends the Florida Atlantic Owls and Loyola Ramblers game at the Barstool Invitational at Wintrust Arena on November 8, 2023 in Chicago. (Getty Images/Michael Hickey)
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Portnoy accused Mamdani of rushing to “side with the terrorists” and cited his criticism of Boston police for allegedly failing to read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights when he was finally arrested in 2013 for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.
“His reaction to that [the bombing] is ‘how come the police didn’t read this guy Miranda acts when he’s sitting on a boat,’ and not the people he killed? This is someone in a city where 9/11 happened. “I would be quicker to blame the finance people in the building than the people who crashed the planes into the buildings,” Portnoy said.
In an interview with News Business in July, Portnoy called Mamdani a “communist” and “one of the worst and scariest candidates.” (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
News’ David Spector contributed to this report.
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