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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s gorgeous Democratic Celebration main victory within the nation’s most populous metropolis proved to be a present for Republicans aiming to color Democrats as excessive radicals.
Republicans have been relentless in making an attempt to anchor Mamdani to Democrats throughout the nation who’re working in aggressive races in elections this 12 months and in subsequent 12 months’s midterms.
One of many newest examples comes from New Hampshire, within the high-profile 2026 race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
Republican candidate and former Sen. Scott Brown went up this week with a digital advert that edits an image of Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democratic candidate within the race, alongside pictures of Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star who backed Mamdani.
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A digital advert by Republican senate candidate in New Hampshire former Sen. Scott Brown edits collectively a photograph of the Democratic candidate within the 2026 race, Rep. Chris Pappas, subsequent to pictures of Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Scott Brown Senate marketing campaign)
The caption on the advert reads “Comrade Chris.”
Responding, the Pappas marketing campaign informed Fox Information that “Scott Brown is so determined to make this election about something apart from the problems as a result of he is aware of he embraces an agenda of upper prices and well being care cuts that’s deeply unpopular in New Hampshire.”
And Pappas marketing campaign communications adviser Collin Gately added that “Chris is among the most bipartisan members of Congress, and has a demonstrated document of working throughout the aisle to ship outcomes for New Hampshire.”
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The Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was one of many first out of the gate to capitalize on Mamdani’s leftward lurch, firing off an e mail launch minutes after his victory that claimed, “the brand new face of the Democrat Celebration simply dropped, and it is straight out of a socialist nightmare.”
Aiming to tie Home Democrats to Mamdani, NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella argued that “each weak Home Democrat will personal him, and each Democrat working in a main will worry him.”
The Nationwide Republican Senatorial Marketing campaign (NRSC) additionally rapidly obtained into the sport, tying Pappas and Abdul El-Sayed – one of many contenders for the Democratic Senate nomination in battleground Michigan – to Mamdani.
No shock – the Republican assaults have even come from President Donald Trump, who, since Mamdani’s victory two weeks in the past, has repeatedly claimed that the 33-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from the New York Metropolis borough of Queens is a “communist.”
Mamdani, who convincingly topped former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and 9 different candidates to seize the Democratic mayoral nomination and take a giant step in direction of changing into the town’s first Muslim mayor, is giving Republicans loads of ammunition.
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.
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Additionally fueling the Republican assaults are latest information gadgets which have gone viral. They embrace a 2020 picture Mamdani posted on-line that exhibits him flipping off a statue of Christopher Columbus, tales about feedback Mamdani made final December, when he stated 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.”
New York Metropolis Democratic 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 ( Reuters/David ‘Dee’ Delgado)
“The Democratic Celebration’s making an attempt to persuade those that the tail will not be wagging the canine, and so they do not reply to the extra excessive parts of their occasion,” veteran Republican strategist Colin Reed informed Fox Information. “Now, that total effort is undercut by a socialist profitable handily in a bellwether election to find out who’s going to run America’s largest metropolis.”
“It is a messaging nightmare that is going to unfold in actual time from now till the midterms,” stated Reed, who’s a high political adviser to Brown.
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Veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance informed Fox Information that “the first problem for Democrats concerning Mamdani’s candidacy will not be his coverage method. The problem is his occasion identification as a democratic socialist.”
“If there’s any doubt concerning the unfavorable implications of including the phrase socialist to Mamdani’s occasion affiliation, one want solely peruse the nationwide protection whose focus has been on his occasion and the absence of occasion management to hurry to his protection or supply endorsements,” Lesperance, the president of New England Faculty, stated.
Now-Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani takes the stage at his main election occasion, in New York Metropolis on June 24, 2025. (AP Photograph/Heather Khalifa)
However 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 throughout the nation.
Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee informed 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 would be able to essentially apply that to the remainder of the nation.”
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Gately, the Pappas marketing campaign communications adviser, pointed to the advert from the Brown marketing campaign and stated that “Granite Staters belief Chris and can see by means of these assaults.”
And veteran Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo cautioned, “I would not learn an excessive amount of into this.”
Caiazzo, a veteran of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, argued that “Republicans are making an excessive amount of out of this.”
