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Ffs. That’s not the case.
If you think someone saying “he doesn’t have a plan” is slander, you might want to stay the hell away from politics.
This wasn’t FPTP, it’s NYC and yes there’s a Jewish component to the race, and yeah he’s young and inexperienced. All of those are valid, legitimate concerns regarding a political election.
Unfortunately for them, the primary is over and they already lost. So no, they don’t have to blindly believe Mamdani is going to win in a lanslide, but they should at least act like it. I think we’re looking at a mayoral race through a presidential-election lens.
Slander though? No.
Also it would be libel, not slander anyways.
Saying he is not a fitting candidate is not slander?
No. It is not.
It’s rude, it’s dismissive, it’s a bunch of things that also aren’t crimes and your desperation to show Democrats as the Worst Things Evar is showing.
Here, post an article from the Democrats supporting him and don’t forget to mention they’re democrats. Yeah, don’t worry no one will expect you to even consider it.
This is libel rather than slander, since it is written and not verbal. But even then, it's not libel either. To be libel (or slander) against a public figure, it has to be factually untrue and Patterson would have to either know that it was untrue or act with disregard for the truth. He's allowed to state his opinion - which he clearly stated as his opinion - that Mamdani isn't a good fit for the position. We can think that Patterson is wrong about that, but he's only wrong (and, in my opinion, strategically foolish), not libellous
Okay great definition. Now read the Governors statement again.