Twenty-five years ago, Walter Matuza’s father was at his desk on the 92nd floor of the North Tower at Carr Futures when American Airlines Flight 11 came through the sky just above him. He never came home. This September, the families asked New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to stay away from the Ground Zero ceremony. More than 110,000 people signed that petition, and the families pointed at the company he keeps: the streamer Hasan Piker, who said America “deserved 9/11,” and Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer who once represented a Guantanamo detainee linked to al Qaeda, now the mayor’s chief counsel.
The mayor showed up anyway, and the man I’m about to talk with was standing there when he did. Walter has also spent years working elections to help get out the GOP vote on Staten Island, so I want to hear what he saw on Tuesday and what he thinks still has to be fixed. Election Day is behind us but the fight is not. Whatever the final counts say, we need a Republican Congress standing behind President Trump’s agenda, and every Republican who won Tuesday needs to hear from you that you expect results. We value your privacy
