Republican aims to bind Democrats with Zohran Mamdani after the main annoyance

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Mamdani was upset former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday with a campaign that focused on affordability: he promised to raise taxes for him to promise to raise taxes on rich people and companies, help funding city grocery shops, eliminating bus fares and expanding public housing initiatives.

His victory jumped over him into a national conversation overnight – Republican parties throughout Washington used it as a new opportunity to describe Democrats as “radical socialist” and out of steps with the country.

The National Republic of the Congress Committee, the Republican House Campaign Arm, has also quickly connected the National Democratic Party with Mamdani.

Representative of Mike Lawler (RN.Y.), who represented the Wise District Outside New York City and served with Mamdani in the state legislature in Albany, Posted on x That Democrats in New York “will pay the price of this madness in the ballot box.”

“Look at what we just did in New York,” said Chairman of the National Committee of the Republic of Michael Whatley on Friday, adding, “This is where Democrats leave. They are open borders, expenditure of inflation, weak America.”

While some progressive democrats have embraced Mamdani, several party leaders stopped supporting him. Some of the moderate democrats representing the suburbs of New York have criticized it and refused to support their campaign.

An Israeli government critic, Mamdani has faced an antisemitism accusation of past comments and proposals. In response, he had emphasized the policy to fight Antisemitism, said that he wanted to focus on the city’s problems and said he supported Israel’s rights to exist as a country with the same rights for all.

Governor Virginia Glenn Yo, in his speech at the same conference as Whatley, also criticized Mamdani when trying to bind it with Democrats.

“Listen, progressive left will not stop. They will not stop trying to take us to the path to socialism, and because of that we will never be able to stop … see what is happening in New York. They nominate a mayor candidate who will make Bernie Sanders blush,” Yo said.

“But that is not only New York. This is a challenge that we continue to face and why we must continue to remind ourselves that elections have consequences,” he said.

Ralph Reed, a republic operative and chairman of the coalition Faith and Freedom, told reporters on Friday that Mamdani’s victory, and the victory of the general election in November, would place him in the center of the Democratic Party as the largest city leader in the country.

“Mayor of New York City is one of the most prominent political figures, not only in the United States, but in the world,” he said. “I don’t care if you are Rudy Giuliani or Ed Koch or, you know, [Michael] Bloomberg, or you know, whoever is. This is a big problem. I mean, whether Democrats will want it or not if he wins the main one, he helps define the party. “

ABC News has reached the Mamdani campaign to comment on comments made at the conference.

When he was asked by ABC News Rachel Scott’s senior political correspondent on Wednesday on a Republican party that took his identification as a democratic socialist to paint all Democrats in the same way, Mamdani answered, “You know, I see that so many New York people, especially what we see [on primary] Night, actually no matter – they are excited, with recognition of the inequality they face in their own lives. “

Some Republicans have launched what some people are called Islamophobic attacks on Mamdani. Born in Uganda, Mamdani, who is a Muslim of Indian descent who lived in the United States since he was 7 years old and became a citizen who was naturalized in 2018.

House Republican Representative Andy Ogles from Tennessee wrote on Thursday that he asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation of Mamdani citizenship, especially the naturalized application.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-ga.), Responding to Mamdani’s victory, posted the image of the Liberty statue which was changed digitally covered by Burqa.

Some members of the Muslim Democratic Congress strongly encourage the Oggs letter, calling for Democratic leaders to criticize the attack.

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At a press conference on Friday, the minority leader of the Chuck Schumer Senate (DN.Y.), who has stopped supporting Mamdani but plans to meet him, calls Ogos’s efforts to “disgust.”

US Representative Ritchie Torres (DN.Y.), who has greatly criticized Mamdani for his views and supported Cuomo in the primary of the mayor, Write on x On Thursday, “It’s no secret that I have a deep disagreement with Zohran Mamdani. But every Democrats – and every good person – must speak with moral clarity on despicable Islamophobic attacks that have been directed at him.”

Another Democrat House also came to defend Mamdani for the comment.

Reed, who said he was not accustomed to the Ogg or Greene post, suggested that other Republicans must focus on criticizing Mamdani’s legislative policies and records.

“I haven’t even seen it, but I won’t think it will be a dominant message,” he told reporters. “There is so much material for this person.”

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Who won his chair last November while Trump brought the state of Michigan at the presidential level, underestimated disagreement in the party, and argued that Mamdani’s victory in the focus of New York voters underlined the economy throughout the country.

“People, like in November, are still really focused on the cost and economy, and the mathematics of their own kitchen table, and they are looking for new generations of leadership,” Slotkin said on Thursday. “This strengthens that you might not agree on some of the main problems, but understand that people are worried about their family budget, it is a unifying thing for the coalition.”

ABC’s Tiffany Li contributed to this report.