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Zohran Mamdani won the New York 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 “financial people” about potentially moving the company out of New York, telling them to “start looking around for real estate.”
“Honestly, I’ve thought about it a lot … going to Hoboken or Jersey City or something,” Portnoy said on a live stream. “I don’t want an office (in Manhattan).”
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Dave Portnoy is glad he’s no longer living in New York after Zohran Mamdani’s big win. (Eric Rueb/Providence Journal/USA Today Network; Hiroko Masuike/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Portnoy’s nightmare has come true, as the 34-year-old democratic socialist will take office from January. The morning after the election, Portnoy essentially shrugged it off.
“If that’s what the people of NYC want, so be it [sic] so be it. Thank God I don’t live there anymore,” he wrote on X.
In an interview with FOX Business in July, Portnoy called Mamdani a “communist” and “one of the worst, most sinister candidates.”
“He hates capitalism, he wants a fundamental shift in what has built this country, and he doesn’t really hide it much,” Portnoy said.
Barstool founder and CEO Dave Portnoy is seen before the Florida Atlantic Owls and Loyola (Il) Ramblers game in the Barstool Invitational at Wintrust Arena on November 8, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty Images/Michael Hickey)
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Portnoy went on to accuse Mamdani of being quick to “side with terrorists” and cited his criticism of Boston police for allegedly not reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights when he was finally arrested in 2013 for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.
“His reaction to it [the bombing] is ‘how did the police not read this guy Miranda acts when he’s in a boat’ not the people he killed. This is someone in a city where 9/11 happened. He would be quicker to blame the financiers in the building than the people who flew the planes into the buildings,” Portnoy said.
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, spoke with Pakinomist Digital about whether Barstool would fire employees due to insensitive speech surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk. (Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, who controversially stayed in the race.
