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EXCLUSIVE: Inna Vernikov, a NYC Republican councilwoman, spoke to Fox Information Digital in regards to the prospect of New York Metropolis being run by socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
“I believe it is a very harmful scenario we’re in. I believe we’re taking a look at a chaotic metropolis with lawlessness,” Vernikov instructed Fox Information Digital when requested what New York Metropolis will seem like after 4 years if Mamdani is victorious in November.
“I believe we’re gonna see quite a lot of the rich and the center class escape New York Metropolis.”
Vernikov, who was born within the Soviet Union and got here to america as a toddler, instructed Fox Information Digital she remembers standing in step with her grandfather for a bottle of milk and made the comparability between Mamdani’s insurance policies and communist Russia.
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Fox Information Digital spoke to NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov about Zohran Mamdani (Fox Information Digital/Getty)
“Take into consideration going into the DMV. Take into consideration going anyplace, and simply keep in mind how a lot pink tape and incompetence you will see going to any of those companies, and that is what Mamdani desires to do with New York Metropolis,” Vernikov stated. “He desires government-run supermarkets. That’s utterly counter, runs utterly counter to what America is meant to be. America was constructed on the free market financial system, free market of concepts, the concept of meritocracy and capitalism, and competitors. Capitalism is just not excellent, nevertheless it’s based mostly on the concept of competitors.”
Vernikov added that New York Metropolis beneath Mamdani, in her opinion, will likely be “harmful,” “chaotic,” and “lawless.”
Mamdani met with Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries in New York on Friday as Democrats proceed to be pressed on whether or not they may endorse Mamdani regardless of his previous controversial feedback on economics, Israel and policing.
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani briefly speaks with reporters as he leaves the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing on July 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. Zohran met privately with Sanders after attending a breakfast occasion hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures)
Many consultants, together with some who spoke to Fox Information Digital earlier this month, steered a Mamdani victory would spark a reckoning within the Democratic Social gathering.
“There’s simply no approach that average and centrist Democrats can abide by socialism, cultural revolution, and ever-bloated welfare state driving us out of business, and alignment with targets of Mid East fascist terrorists,” Former Home Judiciary Chief Counsel Julian Epstein, a Democrat, instructed Fox Information Digital. “So if he wins, not solely will it proceed to sink the nationwide model of the celebration, it might portend the eventual break-up of the celebration as we all know it at this time.”
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New York Metropolis Council member Inna Vernikov speaks at a press convention sponsored by New York Metropolis Council Member Vickie Paladino about supporting public sector employees affected by COVID-19 vaccine mandates. (Barry Williams for NY Every day Information through Getty Pictures)
Vernikov echoed that sentiment to Fox Information Digital and stated that Mamdani “is the Democratic Social gathering at this time.”
“The issue with the Democratic Social gathering is it is now not the Democratic Social gathering of JFK,” Vernikov stated. “It is the Democratic Social gathering of AOC and all of the radicals. It has radically moved to the left, and quite a lot of Democrats are actually put into this place: Do we recommend this man or can we avoid this man? And a few of them even have been threatened with bodily violence, and the first from a progressive, in order that they’re actually caught politically.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani’s marketing campaign for remark.
