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Lefty mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani once questioned the “purpose” of jails and prisons — setting off alarm bells among law enforcement officers who blasted the comments as “out of touch” and dangerous Friday. The Queens socialist, who easily won the Democratic primary last month, made the eyebrow-raising remark when he was running for his current state Assembly seat nearly five years ago. “I think that frankly, I mean, what purpose do they serve, right?” Mamdani said when asked by a co-host of “The Far Left Show” in August 2020 if prisons were obsolete. “I think we have to ask ourselves...

What’s wrong with New Yorkers electing Zohran Mamdani mayor? Seriously. He’s a socialist, isn’t he? He’ll wreck New York City, you say. But didn’t that process start with Bill DeBlasio? Do you think that process ends electing Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams? Perennial candidate Curtis Silwa is a savior? Hasn’t socialism been the road Democrats have been traveling for decades? When Mamdani’s socialist experiment crashes and burns, maybe it’ll persuade New Yorkers to abandon Democrats. Maybe independents decide to swing Republican.JFK-style liberals began vanishing after Kennedy’s assassination. Mamdani’s election would make it obvious what should be obvious. Liberalism, progressivism --...

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is giving business leaders fair warning: He promised he’d tax them and wealthy New Yorkers if elected — and he means to keep that promise. He basically dared them to leave the city if he did. Say goodbye to city tax revenue and jobs and hello to a downward spiral, if that happens. On Tuesday, the Dem front-runner met with 100 of the city’s top business leaders and made absolutely no attempt to hide his plans. “He didn’t back away from any policy position,” one attendee told The Post. As The Post’s Charles Gasparino reproted,...

There's rarely a dull moment in New York City politics, and the mayoral race is no exception, with all of the candidates in the race continuing to make the push to convince Big Apple residents that they are the one to lead the iconic city for the next four years.Democrat nominee and media darling Zohran Mamdani, for instance, was paraded around Capitol Hill on Tuesday by another admitted Democrat Socialist, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in an effort to win over Congressional holdouts in their party who have not yet endorsed Mamdani in part over concerns about his pro-Hamas, antisemitic views...

A resurfaced clip of Zohran Mamdani explaining how when he runs out of money—because he’s decided to quit his job—he’ll just live off his parents is going viral: ... He’s got absolutely no qualms about producing nothing, being unemployed, and living off of someone else—which is to say he’s just your average socialist/communist. Recall that Karl Marx lived off of handouts from Freidrich Engels, and was once so broke that he left his wife to pawn his last pair of pants instead of just getting a job to support his family (walking around in his skivvies for who knows who...

A Monday poll by Data for Progress gives new insight into the 2025 New York City mayoral election as the field of candidates for the November general election remains in flux. The Data for Progress poll shows Queens Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic primary winner, leading the field with 40% of polled individuals marking the 33-year-old as their top choice for mayor. Former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who appears to be nearing a decision on an independent campaign after losing to Mamdani and is expected to commit to the race in the coming days, is polling in second place with...

New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani received a hero’s welcome from lefty members of Congress – including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders – as he trekked down to Washington DC Wednesday in hopes of garnering more support from an array of Dems. The 33-year-old socialist attended a breakfast event hosted by Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at the AC Hotel in Navy Yard that was filled with mostly House Democrats, including Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who endorsed Mamdani after his shocking Democratic mayoral primary win last month. Many of Congress’ most ardent liberals were quick to get face time with...

“Worried About Zohran?” reads a Times Square electronic billboard: “Ohio Is Waiting For You.” Wait a few seconds, and the faces of New York City's mayoral election lineup appear along with another pointed question: "Ready to flee NYC?" “Move to Ohio! Protecting freedom —Vivek Ramaswamy." The $50,000 signage is paid for by Ramaswamy's Super PAC — Victors not Victims (VPAC) — established to support his effort to become Ohio's next Republican governor in 2026. VPAC's Andy Surabian told Fox News that New Yorkers concerned about Mamdani's "radical socialist policies" should move to a state like Ohio "that is about to...

Zohran Mamdani said he would discourage the use of the slogan “globalize the intifada” in a roughly hourlong meeting with some of New York City’s most powerful executives on Tuesday, seeking to defuse an issue that has prompted a backlash from the business community and beyond. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, was grilled by a room of 100-plus executives at an event hosted by the Partnership for New York City, an influential business group. The audience included finance and real-estate executives, high-powered lawyers and a handful of billionaires.

As a child of the Cold War with the Soviets as America’s enemy, when the wall came down and the threat of Communism faded, I was under the illusion that the world had inexorably turned a corner and that history was on the march to bring freedom, Capitalism and prosperity to the whole world… The events of September 11 exposed that illusion for what it really was, a delusion. There were actually people out there who wanted to start a war with the United States. With 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Islam went from an almost nonexistent...

Why is this hostile foreign actor still allowed to undermine and sabotage our system of governance and law and order? The ruin of this great nation is a long term project for Nazi collaborator George Soros, who described his work confiscating property from the Jews as “the happiest days of my life.” In a CBS 60 Minustes interview, George Soros reflected on his time collaborating with the Nazis, “”for me, it was a very positive experience,” “it was a very happy making, exhilarating experience,” “for me it was a very positive experience.” Soros means to finish the job his Nazi...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) plans to meet with Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, this week to discuss issues of public safety, specifically as they relate to the Jewish community, The Hill reported on Monday. The meeting comes as Jeffries has withheld his endorsement for Mamdani following the latter's upset victory in the Democratic primary. The 33-year-old defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had been the long-time frontrunner. While Jeffries congratulated Mamdani on his primary win, he has not yet offered his endorsement. In an interview with Punchbowl News, Jeffries stated that Mamdani’s failure...

A former Zohran Mamdani intern proudly declared activism is “all jihad” and encouraged protesters to get suspended or arrested in defiance of the West’s “settler colonialism.” “The true believer knows that none of this is in vain, that this is all Jihad,” said Hadeeqa Malik in the recently resurfaced video, using the controversial Muslim term for holy war. “So, the conversation of doxing, the conversation of getting arrested and suspended, I think it’s time for Muslims to start to say alright, alright so what?” According to Malik’s LinkedIn, she served as a Communications, Outreach, Policy, and Constituent Services Intern at...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in the mayoral race, blasted Andrew Cuomo for deciding to do the same. The former New York governor's move comes after he lost to democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary. He's also planning to ask all other candidates in the race, not including the assemblyman, to drop out by mid-September if they’re not in the lead, reports The New York Post. Adams, however, showed zero interest in going along with Cuomo's plan. “Are you kidding me?” he told The New York Post. “I didn’t lose in...

Former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on July 14 that he will remain in the New York City mayor’s race, weeks after losing the Democratic primary.“To the 440,000 New Yorkers who voted for me, a sincere thank you,” Cuomo said in a video statement posted on social media platform X.“Thank you for believing in me and my agenda and in my experience. And I am truly sorry that I let you down.”Cuomo lost the Democratic nomination last month to Zohran Mamdani, a state assemblyman. Mamdani officially became the Democratic nominee on July 1, winning 56 percent of the...

David Paterson was the governor of New York from 2008 to 2010, when he was succeeded by Andrew Cuomo as the Democrats’ one-party rule of the state continued drearily on. Yet although he is another New York Democrat, Paterson is not thrilled with Zohran Mamdani, his fellow Democrat who stands on the brink of becoming the next mayor of New York City. Yet when he criticized Mamdani, Paterson found to his dismay that not only was he inundated with angry phone calls from the young Communist’s supporters, but his family was targeted as well. And so once again we see...

As the title of this newsletter suggests, I do not care for delusions, and we should have none.It is all-important, then, to acknowledge the fact that Zohran Mamdani will unquestionably be the next mayor of New York. There are too many votes in cheap populist demagoguery and hating the Jews to stop him. So, the question now is not how to prevent a Mamdani victory. The question is how the Jews ought to deal with the fact that an open antisemite will soon rule America’s leading—if declining—city with its million-strong Jewish minority. There would seem to be four options:QuiescenceHistorically, Diaspora...

The Zohran Mamdani campaign has some of the earmarks of a foreign influence operation. ...‘Jews for Zohran’ (and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice) turns out to be as Jewish as a Sri Lankan Marxist billionaire at war with America (and Israel).

"The Mamdani effect is going to metastasize in the Democrat Party. Now, how successful it will be in a general election, I don’t know, I still have my skepticism. But the Mamdani effect is grievance-based politics, playing into people’s bitterness, and also playing into the economic disorder that Biden left us," Kirk said. President Trump is going to fix this, and he is aiming to fix this," Kirk continued. "But understand, for the younger voters that I represent and the younger voters that delivered the White House for President Trump, they can’t afford homes, they’re increasingly renting, they’re not getting...

That’s rich. Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show. Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor. But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working...