The primary election for the New York City mayoral race may be next year, but President-elect Donald Trump’s strong showing across the five boroughs — he won 30% of the vote — will undoubtedly impact the contest and could potentially prompt former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to run as a moderate in a bid to appeal to a redder electorate.

Political observers say that the rightward turn will push the candidates to rethink their outreach to voters on a number of issues and creates opportunity for a moderate challenger to pitch a centrist message amid a field of progressives.

Mark Levine, the Democrat borough president of Manhattan, told Jewish Insider that the presidential election results were “a shift in the tectonic plates of New York City politics” that “will reverberate throughout New York City and state politics.”

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