Gotham’s Next Mayor? It’s Donald Trump

October 28, 2025 | Politico 

ALL OUT EARLY: Vulnerable Rep. Mike Lawler isn’t waiting for a clear frontrunner to emerge from the field of eight Democrats vying to challenge him. He’s going after all of them now. On Monday, the Hudson Valley Republican attacked progressive Tarrytown Trustee Effie Phillips-Staley for her op-ed saying the world is confronting the moral “question of genocide” in Gaza and slamming Lawler as “fueled by AIPAC money and a Trump-era contempt for empathy.”