The war comes home. New York mayoral candidates divide over bombing Iran.

I remember 18 years ago when the Democrats favorite Republican, John McCain, sang “Bomb, bomb, bomb/ Bomb bomb Iran” at a campaign stop.

Hillary Clinton and McCain were nearly identical in their mutual admiration and their war hawkery.

Going back to 2007, Hillary has advocated for the option of launching airstrikes against Iran.

To be clear. There is no evidence that Iran was near or had intentions of making a nuclear weapon.

Besides, combatting nuclear weapons proliferation by selecting one country and bombing it? How is that suppose to work?

In the face of Trump’s sudden turn from isolationist to war maker, the Democrats have split into at least three factions.

Some, like the nutty senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, have offered their full support.

Others, New York Senator Chuck Schumer and New York’s congressman and House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries come to mind, have hidden behind procedures and are mostly limiting their criticism to the fact that Trump didn’t go to Congress before launching the B2s.

Going to Congress before launching a war went out of style long ago. Democrats never complained before. Now it seems a bit too little too late.

Tomorrow is primary election day here in New York.

A morning Emerson poll has Zohran Mamdani beating disgraced former governor Mario Cuomo by 4% in the seventh round of ranked voting.

The issue of the war has become an issue in the campaign.

Cuomo has said he thinks Trump should have sought Congressional approval, echoing the Schumer/Jeffries line.

But Cuomo has made it clear he supports the war’s mission.

Cuomo told reporters Sunday he supported taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities. Mamdani, on the other hand, was sharp in his condemnation.

“In a city as global as ours, the impacts of war are felt deeply here at home. I am thinking of the New Yorkers with loved ones in harm’s way. While Donald Trump bears immediate responsibility for this illegal escalation, these actions are the result of a political establishment that would rather spend trillions of dollars on weapons than lift millions out of poverty, launch endless wars while silencing calls for peace, and fearmonger about outsiders while billionaires hollow out our democracy from within. For Americans middle aged and younger, this is all we have known. We cannot accept it any longer.”