Dave Portnoy is currently on a book tour to promote \u201cCancel Me if You Can,\u201d chronicling his personal journey to the top of online influence. But it\u2019s not fully a book tour unless you float a run for political office, which is exactly what the Barstool owner did in an interview on Fox News with Jesse Watters.<\/p>\n
Portnoy is not the first major sports media personality to mention the possibility of shifting into politics. Stephen A. Smith has been doing so to an unending degree for the last few years<\/a>.<\/p>\n For his part, Dave Portnoy hasn\u2019t been shy about sharing his political opinions. They have mostly been right-leaning (with \u201cBarstool Conservatism<\/a>\u201d even becoming part of the political lexicon). Still, he hasn\u2019t been afraid to call out Donald Trump<\/a> and others in his administration from time to time, at least compared to 99.9% of actual Republican politicians.<\/p>\n However, the recent success of Zohran Mamdani in New York City has lit the political fuse for Portnoy like never before. He has called Mamdani a \u201ccommunist<\/a>\u201d and has threatened to move the Barstool offices out of NYC<\/a>. And in the interview with Watters, Portnoy said that he just might be motivated enough to try to do something about it himself.<\/p>\n \u201cDepending on what day you catch me in Nantucket when I roll out of bed, I have a nice ocean view, and it\u2019s like why do I want to ruin my life and get involved in this mess because I know what comes with it, but sometimes I do feel like it\u2019s my duty. I can\u2019t turn away. I feel like I could make a change, maybe I do run in politics. So I don\u2019t know, depends on the day you catch me. But let me say this: I spend a lot of my day losing my mind on what\u2019s happening right now, especially in New York. You got the Nazi in Maine. This really, really, really worries me,\u201d Portnoy said.<\/p>\n And after Jesse Watters mentioned a challenge to Zohran Mamdani specifically, Dave Portnoy said that if he were ever to enter a political contest, it would be to run for mayor of New York City against the current incumbent.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I was going to run, it would be here. Can I win here? I have no idea. I don\u2019t know the demographics, where they\u2019re getting out votes. There\u2019s a lot of people who like me in New York City. I know that. I\u2019ve done a lot of good in New York City when I wasn\u2019t in politics, whether it\u2019s the Barstool Fund, pizza places, so it wasn\u2019t for show. I\u2019ve had a real job. I\u2019ve done real things, unlike these clown politicians who have never had a job and never been in the real world for a day. But the people voting for these people that just won are like these young, white, Ivy League-ish, elitist women. It\u2019s like, who are they? They\u2019ll never vote for me. They\u2019ll never believe in common sense,\u201d the Barstool chief added.<\/p>\n Mamdani has become an obsession on the political right ever since he first started making waves in the New York City mayoral contest. And now that he\u2019s in office with no real Democratic party leader to speak of, it is only intensifying.<\/p>\n But before he actually goes through with it, Dave Portnoy might want to check the demographics of New York City. It\u2019s been over 20 years since a Republican was elected as mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, but he soon thereafter became an independent. Also, Democrats currently outnumber Republicans 5-1 in the boroughs,<\/a> according to election data.<\/p>\n But what would obviously be the biggest impediment to Portnoy making a serious bid for public office in New York is the fact that he is a Boston guy and a diehard Red Sox fan. Joe Biden has a better chance of becoming a Barstool podcast host than Portnoy does of becoming New York City mayor. His longshot bid would make for some pretty incredible content, though.<\/p>\n The post Dave Portnoy floats possible NYC mayor run against Zohran Mamdani<\/a> appeared first on Awful Announcing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Portnoy is currently on a book tour to promote \u201cCancel Me if You Can,\u201d chronicling his personal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28491,17359,85226,9,24,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-282313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-barstool","tag-dave-portnoy","tag-jesse-watters","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}