WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President JD Vance on Saturday torched New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The vice president said during his address at the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award dinner that Mamdani is “likely” to upset current Mayor Eric Adams in the election.
“The person who wishes to lead our largest city had, according to multiple media reports, never once publicly mentioned America’s independence in earnest,” Vance explained.
Vance went on to quote Mamdani’s recent statement on July 4 in which he said “America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished, I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better.”
“There was no gratitude in those words,” Vance said. “No sense of owing something tot his land and the people who turned its wilderness into the most powerful nation on Earth.”
Vance then acknowledged how Mamdani’s father fled Uganda due to ethnic cleansing, adding America became a “haven” for Mamdani’s family.
“And he dares on our 249th anniversary to congratulate it by paying homage to its incompleteness, and to its, as he calls it, contradiction,” he added. “I wonder has he ever read the letters of boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they’d never see again. Has he ever visited the grave site of a loved one who gave their life to build the kind of society where his family can escape racial theft and racial violence?”
“Who the hell does he think that he is?” Vance asked.
Not all Republicans are opposed to Mamdani’s meteoric rise to political stardom, however. Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy last week said the backlash facing the mayoral hopeful is shameful.
“It’s a shame to watch the race-obsessed fringe of the right try to outdo the race-obsessed woke left,” he wrote via X.
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