{"id":15764,"date":"2025-06-26T08:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15764\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:02:15","slug":"james-carville-calls-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-mayoral-primary-victory-a-potentially-damaging-event-for-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15764\/","title":{"rendered":"James Carville calls Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral primary victory a ‘potentially damaging event’ for Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran strategist James Carville warned on<\/a> Wednesday how democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the New York City mayoral primary may be a burden for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, a Ugandan-born New York State Assemblyman from Queens, caused a major upset by defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the race to become the Democratic Party\u2019s nominee for New York City mayor. Republicans and some Democrats have blasted Mamdani, warning he is a grim sign of America\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n

Carville, one of the most famous strategists in American politics, has been speaking about the Democratic Party\u2019s need to ditch far-left politics since well before the 2024 election. He spoke about Mamdani\u2019s surprising victory<\/a> on his podcast with co-host Al Hunt, warning it may be yet another hurdle for struggling Democrats.<\/p>\n

The strategist noted that Mamdani \u201chas not walked back\u201d calls for \u201cglobal infitada\u201d [sic]. Carville was referencing how Mamdani refused to disavow the phrase \u201cGlobalize the intifada,\u201d which pro-Israeli supporters argue is a call for violence, and Israel opponents tout as a mere call to struggle against oppression.<\/p>\n

Carville warned that Mamdani\u2019s victory may be yet another hurdle for struggling Democrats. Youtube \/ Politicon<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe he\u2019ll turn out to be a very skilled candidate that can skillfully navigate some of what I refer to as \u2018esoteric\u2019 positions,\u201d Carville said, appearing to refer to Mamdani\u2019s policy of government-run grocery stores, which bewildered the seasoned strategist.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of baseball left here,\u201d Carville said of the mayoral election. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of baseball left to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt argued that New York City is not a reliable indicator for America at-large, citing how many of its most iconic mayors did not represent a larger political shift outside of their city.<\/p>\n

Republicans and some Democrats have blasted Mamdani, warning he is a grim sign of America\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, I do believe that Republicans will jump on this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He then appeared to refer to Rep. Elise Stefanik\u2019s, R-N.Y., comment where she warned about Mamdani being a \u201cradical, Defund-the-Police, Communist, raging Antisemite.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunt denied that Mamdani is a<\/a> communist, but argued, \u201che does have some issues that the Republicans will love to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine that any Democratic candidate anywhere in the country is going to be able to escape answering this question. I think the microphone\u2019s going to follow him around. I think that they\u2019re going to pound this home as hard as they possibly can,\u201d Carville agreed.<\/p>\n

Hunt argued that New York City is not a reliable political indicator for America at-large. Youtube \/ Politicon<\/p>\n

A big part of the answer, Carville replied, is encouraging people to \u201clook at our nominees in Virginia and New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he said, \u201cDepending on who comes in a general election, there\u2019s a lot of Democrats that are going to have a hard go at this. I think it\u2019s a potentially damaging event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both of the hosts drew parallels between former President Joe Biden and Cuomo being rejected as symbols of the Democratic Party\u2019s past in favor of something entirely new.<\/p>\n

Supporters celebrate as Zohran Mamdani leads in the Democratic Primary for New York Mayor at the \u2018Zohran For NYC Election Night Party\u2019 in New York City on June 24, 2025. Derek French\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the Democratic Party\u2019s attitude is \u2018take this and eat it, because you gotta eat it,\u2019 and people don\u2019t like that,\u201d Carville said, arguing that mentality was enforced on Democrats with Biden and then with Cuomo.<\/a><\/p>\n

The rejection of this, he said, goes beyond ideology and is a generational shift, one could either be positive or negative for the Democrats\u2019 future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this guy creates probably more problems than opportunities for the Democrats,\u201d Hunt later argued after criticizing his grocery store proposal as \u201cnot realistic at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carville warned that opposition to Mamdani is going to \u201ckeep unearthing stuff\u201d from his past.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean he\u2019s gotta give an umbrella answer for all of this,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, Harris had the same problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran strategist James Carville warned on Wednesday how democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the New York City mayoral…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7033,15782,398,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-15764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-democrats","10":"tag-james-carville","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114748624029291199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}