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FIRST ON FOX: Republicans aren’t losing a possibility to make democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani a cudgel to bash Democrats throughout the nation.
Within the three weeks since his gorgeous victory within the New York Metropolis Democratic Get together mayoral major, Republicans have been relentless in making an attempt to anchor Mamdani to Democrats who’re working in aggressive races in subsequent yr’s midterms.
Amongst these main the way in which within the messaging effort are the crew on the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which is the Home GOP’s marketing campaign arm.
The NRCC on Friday launched adverts aiming to tie three Home Democrats in New York and one in neighboring New Jersey to Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York Metropolis borough of Queens.
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New York Metropolis Democratic Get together mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani briefly speaks with reporters as he leaves the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing on July 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
The digital adverts goal Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, and Josh Riley of New York and Nellie Pou of New Jersey. All 4 lawmakers characterize aggressive Home districts.
The adverts, that are backed by a modest purchase, have been shared first with Fox Information Digital.
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 and millennial mayor, is giving Republicans loads of fodder.
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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.
New York Metropolis Democratic Get together mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is surrounded by supporters after a press convention with union leaders in New York Metropolis, on July 2, 2025. ( REUTERS/David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
Additionally fueling the Republican assaults are latest information gadgets which have gone viral. They embody 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 mentioned as mayor he would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his latest feedback in a cable information interview that “I’ve many critiques of capitalism.”
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“Harmful Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the brand new face of Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, Josh Riley, and Nellie Pou’s Democrat Get together, and it is no coincidence. If Democrats had their approach, Mamdani’s pro-criminal, open-borders, anti-law enforcement, and antisemitic agenda could be the regulation of the land,” NRCC spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole argued in an announcement to Fox Information.
Suozzi, who represents a district that is anchored simply exterior of New York Metropolis in suburban Lengthy Island however features a sliver of Queens, has mentioned he “wholeheartedly” disagrees with components of Mamdani’s agenda.
New digital adverts by the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) purpose to anchor New York Metropolis mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani to Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, Josh Riley of New York and Nellie Pou of New Jersey. (NRCC)
Gillen, who represents a neighboring district simply exterior of New York Metropolis in suburban Lengthy Island, has mentioned that Mamdani is “too excessive” to steer the nation’s most populous metropolis.
Riley, who represents a suburban and rural district in New York State north of town, has been criticized by the NRCC for not weighing in on Mamdani.
The NRCC has additionally focused Pou, who represents a district within the New Jersey suburbs of New York Metropolis, for failing to “name out” Mamdani.
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 within the metropolis’s suburbs and elsewhere throughout the nation.
Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, a Democrat, advised reporters the day after Mamdani’s victory that “I like New York, nevertheless it’s a really liberal place, and I do not know that 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.
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Pappas, talking with Fox Information Digital final week, mentioned, “Republicans have spent tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} working assault adverts towards me by way of the years making an attempt to color me as somebody that I’m not.”
“Folks know me. They know the work that I’ve been doing. They know that I’m one of the bipartisan members of the Home of Representatives as a result of I imagine in fixing issues and getting issues completed,” Pappas mentioned. “I’m a New Hampshire Democrat. I’m happy with my monitor report in Congress.”
