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The Gen Z wunderkind behind Mamdani and Platner
The Telegraph ^ | July 10, 2026 | Iona Cleave

Posted on 07/10/2026 9:51:15 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

After the dramatic implosion of Graham Platner's US Senate campaign in Maine, Morris Katz was dispatched to help deal with the crisis.

At 27 years old, the New Yorker has risen quickly in the world of Democratic strategists.

The Gen Z media guru serves as Zohran Mamdani's top political adviser and is credited with helping to orchestrate the Democratic socialist's landslide victory in New York City's mayoral election.

His skills in harnessing social media and creating savvy digital campaigns have put him in high demand among those vying for power in a party desperate to reengage young voters.

Mr Katz has helped to select and mould the campaigns of the next generation of hard-Left Democratic candidates across the US who want to shake up the party.

His ambitions do not stop there. He sees his work as a global mission to fundamentally change who holds power. That effort brought him to the UK earlier this year to lend his expertise to Labour and Green candidates.

The New York Post has described him as a "silver-spoon socialist" for growing up within New York's cultural elite.

David Bar Katz, his father, is a successful playwright and television producer, and Julie Merberg, his mother, is the author of children's books. He attended a leading public school and dreamt of becoming a playwright before moving into politics.

And yet, he believes Congress "should be a place where we have farmers and where we have mechanics", instead of veteran politicians who have forgotten "what it means to struggle".

He has, at times, villianised establishment Democrats, frequently criticising them for selling out the working class.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 07/10/2026 9:51:15 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gosh, they’re positively swooning over yet another bird brained Jewish Marxist Wunderkind!

No “far left” label, or Suicidal Jew promoting deceitful Muslim power seeker.

Nope!

Heeza Noble Egalitarian promoting yeoman Proletarians!

Nobody ever thoughta that before, right?


2 posted on 07/10/2026 9:59:25 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Katz. Sounds like a Joo. A Joo who works for Mamdani, a moozlem who has no use for Jooz.


3 posted on 07/10/2026 10:00:55 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

WTF America? Sorry to say, but there’s NO WAY STOPPING the USA becoming a socialist country. The left owns the media and education. We’re done in 20 years or less. I wish I was wrong.


4 posted on 07/10/2026 10:02:31 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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Can’t tell if Iona’s a man, baby . . .

5 posted on 07/10/2026 10:02:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Can’t tell if Iona’s a man, baby . . .

6 posted on 07/10/2026 10:02:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Puppage

They’ve been trying for over a century, but it hasn’t happened. You trying to help them?


7 posted on 07/10/2026 10:03:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
David Bar Katz, his father, is a successful playwright and television producer, and Julie Merberg, his mother,

Yep, definitely a lib/socialist Jew

these people are off the charts with suicidal empathy.

8 posted on 07/10/2026 10:09:26 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

I read that Morris didn’t pay enough to screen Platner properly.

Of course, if you see Morris living it up then you might think the primary system is simply being bypassed.


9 posted on 07/10/2026 10:15:29 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican
I wonder what it takes to qualify as a "Gen Z wunderkind":

"Scientist reveals first generation ever to be less intelligent than their parents"

"Two-thirds of Gen Z don’t know what America’s 250th commemorates"

Doesn't look like the bar has been set very high...

;^)

10 posted on 07/10/2026 10:16:24 AM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

“This all comes after Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine resident who had an on-and-off dating relationship with Platner for two years, accused him of showing up to her house while inebriated “

“Other women he dated in the past have also accused him of inappropriate behavior. Lyndsey Fifield accused him of repeatedly removing condoms without her consent during sex. She also said he physically abused her.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/07/09/this-is-what-happened-in-the-final-hours-of-graham-platners-campaign-n2679123


11 posted on 07/10/2026 10:18:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Puppage
Sorry to say, but there’s NO WAY STOPPING the USA becoming a socialist country.

Yes, there is, but it hangs on our will to learn how to teach them that socialism is the creation of immensely wealthy people seeking uncontested power. It will be traumatic, but said trauma is necessary to break the hard wired conditioning of the Amygdala in the brain. Sad to say that we have some of that to undergo ourselves.

12 posted on 07/10/2026 10:20:52 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

George Soros wannabe.


13 posted on 07/10/2026 10:24:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Katz was raised in a Jewish family,[5] the son of children’s book author Julie Merberg and screenwriter David Bar Katz.”

Interesting how a jew teams up with antisemitics, Muslims and Marxists!

Though Marx was a jew also.


14 posted on 07/10/2026 10:26:51 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Morris Katz, 27, Gen Z media guru— Zohran Mamdani’s top political adviser.
.....His skills in harnessing social media and creating savvy digital campaigns have put him in high demand among those vying for power in a party desperate to reengage young voters......

Anyone who votes on the basis of “social media and savvy digital campaigns” is a cellphone-addicted fool, and is not qualified to vote intelligently!

This is how we get elected “Noo” Socialist politicians!


15 posted on 07/10/2026 10:28:33 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: aquila48

Communism Uber Alles


16 posted on 07/10/2026 10:29:48 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Puppage

“The left owns the media and education.”

1) The left does not own Fox, CBS, CNN, Paramount and hundreds of TV and radio stations and much of the internet.

2) The left does “own” many educational institutions. But the educated are often those home schooled or Christian Schooled or those who learned to read by reading the Bible every day.

We live in a mixed society where there is some competiton and needs to be more competition.


17 posted on 07/10/2026 10:39:29 AM PDT by spintreebob (m)
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To: Brian Griffin

And a good campaign manager would have met with and interviewed every former girlfriend before agreeing to represent the candidate.

Either they knew and hoped to keep it covered up, or they were totally incompetent. Both are plausible


18 posted on 07/10/2026 10:46:49 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There are no news reports of Platner turning in his withdrawal letter to the Maine Secretary of State today.
I believe he is waiting until Monday, July 13, the final day it can be submitted. I think he is trying to determine who his successor will be. Maybe he will be so upset with the political establishment that he will miss the deadline! :)


19 posted on 07/10/2026 10:47:45 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: MinorityRepublican
Re: "The Gen Z media guru serves as Zohran Mamdani's top political adviser and is credited with helping to orchestrate the Democratic socialist's landslide victory in New York City's mayoral election."

Landslide victory?

Get serious!

Mamdani got 50.8% of the vote.

Unpopular ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo got 41.3%.

Law and Order Republican Curtis Sliwa got 7%.

20 posted on 07/10/2026 11:49:38 AM PDT by zeestephen (2024 Trump Landslide - Kamala Harris Lost By 230,000 Votes In WI, MI, and PA.)
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