Is it possible all the Republicans freaking out over Mamdani’s NYC mayoral candidacy — and this his odds of winning are excellent — think this is a real possibility:
Probably not. They’re just bigots horrified that a Muslim who’s left of the norm can win elected office in the USA. Case in point, calls to strip Mamdani of citizenship.
Eric Trump says the Republican candidate should drop out of the NYC mayoral race so Adams can defeat Mamdani. Because Mamdani (he lies) wants to nationalize grocery stores. Eric also wonders “why can’t we have, again, great education, low taxes, clean streets, safe streets” as if his father wasn’t pro-pollution, anti-education, and only lowers taxes on billionaires. Plus given ICE’s penchant for shooting and assaulting people, the Felon ain’t in favor of safe streets either.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis is another Republican weighing on the terror of a Mamdani win. Even though DeStalinist is not a New Yorker, nor has any dog in the hunt, other than the horror at someone winning who wants government to help people. He’s also joking Florida will need a border wall to stop all the horrified New Yorkers from moving to the Sunshine State.
Speaker Mike Johnson took time out from keeping the House closed — can’t let those Epstein files become public! — to declare Mamdani is so far left it’s the end of the Democratic Party. I’m sure Republicans will try very hard to make a caricature of Mamdani an albatross around the party’s neck, even though policies like groceries in food deserts, free day care and free transit would be popular in lots of areas. And it’s not like Johnson’s blend of right-wing Christianity is an asset to his party.
And Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith goes with the classic argument: we’re a Christian nation so electing Mamdani is wrong. We’re not and never were (we were founded as a nation with lots of Protestants but a secular government), and no, it isn’t. And Beckwith’s own morals are allegedly dubious.
And chief opponent Andrew Cuomo topped off his sex-harasser rep with a racist AI-slop video. Leading to Mamdani’s quip that “Maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one.”
