Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has a message for New Yorkers \u2013 expect dark days ahead if you elect socialist Zohran Mamdani your next mayor. <\/p>\n
Suarez \u2013 whose parents escaped Cuba as young refugee children in the early 1960s during Fidel Castro\u2019s communist dictatorship \u2013 compared Mamdani to a young Castro during an interview with The Post Friday.<\/p>\n
He also said he\u2019s \u201cgenuinely worried\u201d about NYC residents heading into the Nov. 4 mayoral election, which the Democratic nominee Mamdani is favored to win.<\/p>\n
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez has a message for New Yorkers \u2013 expect dark days ahead if you elect socialist Zohran Mamdani your next mayor, and he compared him to a young Fidel Castro while speaking to The Post. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201c[New York City] is going down a very dark path, and it\u2019s sad,\u201d said Suaraz, the son of Miami\u2019s first Cuban-born mayor, Xavier Suarez.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some people that say \u2014 and I am not one of them \u2014 that maybe [electing a socialist mayor in NYC] is best for America in a backwards way because, once you see the abject failure that it will be, there will be a correction and a reset. But I don\u2019t want people to suffer for that to happen.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Republican said New Yorkers \u201cshould be terrified\u201d of socialism and communism \u2014 not embrace it.<\/p>\n
Queens Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, is the favorite to win this year\u2019s New York City mayor\u2019s race. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n
\u201cMy parents fled [Cuba] . . . because a young charismatic leader said \u2018Give us all your property, give us all your businesses, and don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll make everybody equal.\u2019 And he did,\u201d said Suarez.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe made everybody equally poor, equally miserable, and equally repressed. And that\u2019s all that communism has delivered throughout the history of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Suarez has attacked Mamdani. He poked fun at the socialist on Instagram<\/a> last month by posting video of himself bench-pressing 225 pounds 13 times next to Mamdani famously struggling <\/a>to lift 135 pounds at a Brooklyn \u201cMen\u2019s Day\u201d event, with the caption \u201cSocialism VS Capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n Miami Mayor Francis Suarez (right) speaks as President Donald Trump (left) and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent (middle) in the Oval Office at the White House on September 5, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n Miami is hosting a major leadership summit called\u00a0\u201cAmerica Business Forum\u201d\u00a0Nov. 5-6 \u2013 after Election Day \u2013 in part because the \u201cCapital of Latin America\u201d wants to show how \u201cdifferent we are\u201d than the socialist-loving Big Apple, so it could accelerate its growth as a \u201ctruly great global city, according to Suarez.<\/p>\n Mamdani declined to comment.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Suarez, Miami\u2019s mayor since 2017, is term-limited and not seeking re-election. <\/p>\n However, his father Xavier, who served as the mayor from 1985 to 1993 and then for another six months from November 1997 to March 1998, is mounting a political comeback and running for the seat. <\/p>\n The younger Suarez has not made any endorsements in the Miami race \u2014 despite his father running \u2014 but told The Post \u201cI wish him very well.\u201d He also said he\u2019s not planning to make an endorsement in the NYC race, but said he has a \u201cgood relationship\u201d with Mayor Eric Adams, a Dem seeking re-election as an independent.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t