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Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election on Tuesday, which didn’t please Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
Late last month, Portnoy revealed that he had conversations with the company’s “financial guys” about potentially moving the company out of New York, and told them to “start looking at properties.”
“Honestly, I thought about it a lot… going to Hoboken or Jersey City or something like that,” Portnoy said during a livestream. “I don’t want to have an 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/AFP via Getty Images)
Portnoy’s nightmare has come true as the 34-year-old democratic socialist is expected to take office starting in January. The day after the election, Portnoy essentially shrugged his shoulders.
“If that’s 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 FOX Business in July, Portnoy called Mamdani a “communist” and “one of the worst, scariest candidates.”
“He hates capitalism, he wants fundamental change in what built this country, and he doesn’t really hide it,” Portnoy said.
Barstool Founder and CEO Dave Portnoy is seen before the Florida Atlantic Owls and Loyola (Il) Ramblers game during the Barstool Invitational at Wintrust Arena on November 8, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty Images/Michael Hickey)
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Portnoy then accused Mamdani of being quick to “side with the terrorists” and cited his criticism of the 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 this [the bombing] It’s “How did the police not figure out this guy Miranda is acting like when he’s sitting in a boat”, not the people he killed. This is someone in a city where the 9/11 attacks happened. He would be quicker to blame the finance people in the building than the people who flew the planes into the buildings,” Portnoy said.
Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, spoke with PK Press Club Digital about whether Barstool would lay off employees due to insensitive rhetoric surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Mamdani beat former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, who remained controversial in the race.
