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EXCLUSIVE – Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s gorgeous Democratic Occasion main victory within the nation’s most populous metropolis seems to be the reward that retains on giving for Republicans aiming to color Democrats as excessive radicals.
When requested if Mamdani is giving the GOP further ammunition of their messaging battle, Republican Nationwide Committee Chair Michael Whatley answered “completely.”
“I imply, that is the face of the brand new Democratic Occasion,” Whatley stated in an unique interview with Fox Information Digital.
Whatley argued that “everyone who desires to guide that occasion desires to guide it to the left….they’re transferring away from the American public proper now at a fairly fast clip.”
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Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks throughout a rally on the Gaming Trades Council headquarters in New York on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Picture/Richard Drew)
Mamdani, who convincingly topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and 9 different candidates final month to seize the New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral nomination and take an enormous step towards turning into town’s first Muslim mayor, is giving Republicans loads of fodder.
He is proposed eliminating fares to trip New York Metropolis’s huge bus system, making CUNY (Metropolis College of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, providing “free childcare” for kids as much as age 5 and organising government-run grocery shops.
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Additionally fueling the Republican assaults are current information objects which have gone viral. They embrace a 2020 photograph Mamdani posted on-line that reveals him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus, tales about feedback Mamdani made final December when he stated as mayor he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his current feedback in a cable information interview that “I’ve many critiques of capitalism.”
Republicans have been relentless in making an attempt to anchor Mamdani to Democrats throughout the nation who’re working in aggressive races in elections this 12 months and in subsequent 12 months’s midterms.
Republican Nationwide Committee Chair Michael Whatley is interviewed by Fox Information Digital on the RNC headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 14, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information )
“He actually goes to suit proper into that higher echelon of Democrats who’re vying for a lead in that occasion,” Whatley stated of Mamdani. He claimed that “they’re simply unabashedly in that radical woke a part of the occasion.”
Pointing to final 12 months’s elections, when the Republicans gained again the White Home and Senate and held onto their razor-thin Home majority, Whatley argued that “each single candidate proper now on the Democratic aspect of the aisle is shopping for into the identical failed agenda that they misplaced with in 2024.”
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Moreover, Democrats query the effectiveness of the GOP push.
They argue that there is a world of distinction between closely blue New York Metropolis, the place Democrats outnumber Republicans by a roughly six-to-one margin, and a few key battleground states and swing districts throughout the nation.
Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, a Democrat, instructed reporters the day after Mamdani’s victory that “I like New York, however it’s a really liberal place, and I do not know which you could essentially apply that to the remainder of the nation.”
Within the high-profile 2026 race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Republican candidate and former Sen. Scott Brown went up final week with a digital advert that edits an image of Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic candidate within the race, alongside photographs of Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star who backed Mamdani.
Pappas, talking with Fox Information Digital final week, stated, “Republicans have spent tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} working assault advertisements towards me by the years making an attempt to color me as somebody that I’m not.”
“Individuals know me. They know the work that I’ve been doing. They know that I’m one of the vital bipartisan members of the Home of Representatives as a result of I imagine in fixing issues and getting issues executed,” Pappas stated. “I’m a New Hampshire Democrat. I’m happy with my observe file in Congress.”
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Pappas was joined on the marketing campaign path by longtime Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who spent loads of time in New Hampshire forward of her third-place end within the state’s 2020 Democratic presidential main.
“It’s about New Hampshire. They’re going to do that in all these races throughout the nation. They attempt to connect individuals. Individuals have by no means even met a few of these individuals. And so they maintain doing it,” Klobuchar instructed Fox Information when requested concerning the Republican advert anchoring Mamdani to Pappas. “To me that is about what’s happening for the individuals of this state.”
