Former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo joked that he “will move to Florida” if he fails to win the New York City mayoral race, and Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis replied, “Don’t!”

“Don’t New York our Florida!” DeSantis wrote on X, responding to the report on Cuomo’s quip to a rich business donors’ breakfast Saturday in the Hamptons.

Using Republican talking points about the dangers of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who defeated Cuomo soundly in a low turnout Democrat primary last month, Cuomo told the fundraiser hosted by supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, the New York Post reported.

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