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Amid Mamdani’s Success, a Centrist Democrat Warns Her Party Not to Misread the Moment
TIME ^ | June 26, 2025 | Nik Popli

Posted on 06/27/2025 10:22:45 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s surprise primary success in New York City’s mayoral primary, prominent Democrats across the country have kept unusually quiet. Rep. Laura Gillen, a freshman Democrat in Congress representing part of Long Island, took a different approach: she issued a sharp, immediate rebuke.

“Socialist Zohran Mamdani is too extreme to lead New York City,” Gillen said in a statement released Wednesday morning. “His entire campaign has been built on unachievable promises and higher taxes, which is the last thing New York needs.” She went on to accuse Mamdani of promoting “a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable antisemitic comments,” referencing his refusal during the campaign to denounce the slogan “globalize the intifada,” and his comparison of it to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

“He is the absolute wrong choice for New York,” she concluded, making her the first Democrat in Congress to publicly oppose Mamdani’s candidacy.

It was a striking move from a Democrat whose district borders the city where Mamdani just toppled former Governor Andrew Cuomo...

“Saying things like ‘we’re going to give away free everything’ is not realistic, and it’s not the direction the Democratic Party should go in,” she says. “They should find ways to make people’s lives affordable in tangible ways, and say we will reach across the aisle to do that.”

Gillen dismissed the notion that Mamdani’s victory signaled a larger ideological shift for the party. “This is hardly a mandate or some grand proclamation about where Democrats are,” she said, pointing out that fewer than one in three of the city’s registered Democrats turned out in the primary.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


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To: montag813

Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Green discuss NYC mayor elections around the 7 minute mark: https://youtu.be/8er4NEwVLXw?feature=shared


21 posted on 06/27/2025 4:20:26 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Beating the mass murderer of the old folks wasn’t hard to do.


22 posted on 06/27/2025 4:49:23 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Dear Laura Gillen.....he is the PERFECT DEMOCRAT!!!

EMBRACE THE SUCK YOU ALL CREATED!

23 posted on 06/28/2025 5:20:32 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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