{"id":97787,"date":"2025-07-27T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97787\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:15:11","slug":"ny-republicans-tie-dem-opponents-to-zohran-mamdani-theyre-mamdani-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97787\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Republicans tie Dem opponents to Zohran Mamdani: ‘They’re Mamdani Democrats!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gleeful Republicans will make socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani a key campaign issue as they pound \u201cMamdani Democrats\u201d running for election<\/a> across the state, party insiders said.<\/p>\n

GOP officials will tie Mamdani to Democrat candidates from Long Island to upstate, with the idea the party will answer for the nomination in more moderate areas such as Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk \u2014 and even places like Binghamton, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was ever any doubt that our city is headed in the wrong direction, this past Democratic mayoral primary election gave people their answer,\u201d Staten Island Republican chairman Michael Tannousis said, noting Mamdani will be a campaign point even in judge races.<\/p>\n

Republican candidates across New York state will attempt to tie their opponents to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, party insiders told The Post. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cZohran Mamdani is the official nominee of the Staten Island Democratic Party,\u201d he added. \u201cIn November, Staten Island voters will have a choice: whether they will vote for Zohran Mamdani\u2019s socialist Democratic Party or the Republican candidates they trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican nominee Remy Smith, a Housing Court judge, was set to kick off her campaign Sunday against Democrat attorney Matthew Santamauro for a civil court seat on the island. Tannousis said that the Democrat is running on \u201cthe Mamdani ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s name will \u201cabsolutely\u201d be used as a weapon against Democrats in Suffolk County, where Republican District Attorney Ray Tierney is up for re-election and 18 county legislative seats are up for grabs, the GOP chairman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democratic Party has anointed a communist as the face of the party,\u201d party chairman Jesse Garcia said. \u201chey\u2019ve embraced his policy of defunding the police, antisemitism and higher taxes. Not one Democrat in Suffolk County has denounced Mamdani.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur policies are more in tune with Suffolk voters,\u201d Garcia claimed. \u201cWe are going to compare our Republican candidates\u2019 records of making Suffolk safer and affordable compared to the Mamdani Democrats\u2019 that advocate communism, loss of property rights, antisemitic views, higher taxes and defund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York Republicans hope that Mamdani will hurt Democrats in more moderate areas like Long Island or upstate. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Mamdani identifies himself as a democratic socialist but he has come under fire for declaring in a resurfaced clip that one of his goals is \u201cseizing the means of production<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which critics note reeks of the approach of communist regimes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Republicans in Nassau County will claim that Democrats there share the \u201cdangerous and reckless Mamdani agenda,\u201d said Nassau GOP chairman Joe Cairo.<\/p>\n

There are dozens of county, town and village seats up for election in November. The headliner countywide races include Republicans seeking re-election \u2014 County Executive Bruce Blakeman Bruce Blakeman, DA Anne Donnelly and Comptroller Elaine Phillips.<\/p>\n

Cairo called Mamdani and extreme socialist who will destroy the city\u2019s economy and make \u201cGotham a lawless haven for criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, Zohran Mamdani shares more than a political party line with his Long Island Democrats \u2013 he shares a corrosive and dangerous agenda that embraces defunding the police, cashless bail, closing jails, and soaring taxes,\u201d Cairo said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Nassau County Republican candidate on the ballot \u2014 from county legislators to town supervisors \u2013 stand firmly against the out-of-touch priorities of Zohran Mamdani and the Democrat candidates in Nassau County who clearly share the dangerous and reckless Mamdani Agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani\u2019s earth-shattering election win in last month\u2019s crowded Democratic primary has made him the immediate frontrunner to become New York\u2019s next mayor \u2014 but the win has not gone unnoticed by upstate Republicans, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be ready to strike once voters are educated about Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is out of touch with the voters here,\u201d said Broome County Republican Party Benji Federman, which includes the city of Binghamton.<\/p>\n

Binghamton Republican Mayor Jared Kraham is running for re-election in the Democratic-leaning city against Miles Burnett.<\/p>\n

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The upstate city is part of the economically struggling Southern Tier that borders Pennsylvania and higher taxes that Mamdani is proposing for the Big Apple are out of sync with the region, the GOP leader said.<\/p>\n

Federman said he even has liberal friends in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who are terrified of a Mamdani mayoralty.<\/p>\n

\u201cProposals to raise corporate taxes and taxes on the rich are not popular in Williamsburg and not popular in the Southern Tier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Post\u2019s coverage of Mamdani\u2019s meeting with city business leaders.<\/p>\n

State Democratic Party chairman Jay Jacobs said the GOP scare tactics of trying to make Mamdani the bogeyman won\u2019t work, especially when they have to defend President Trump\u2019s hardline policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypical Republican distraction. Should we tie every Nassau Republican to that nut, Marjorie Taylor Green [Georgia congresswoman] or the assorted antisemites that Trump regularly socializes with?\u201d said Jacobs, also the Nassau County Democratic leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will do fine just tying them to that Big Ugly Bill that will cause health insurance rates to go through the roof,\u201d added Jacobs, referring to the tax and spending bill approved by Trump and the Republican-led Congress.<\/p>\n

Jacobs has not endorsed Mamdani. Neither have Senate Democratic Minority leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, both Brooklynites.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, who is vacationing in his native Uganda<\/a>, will face Republican Curtis Sliwa and three independents in the November election.<\/p>\n

Current Mayor Eric Adams, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and attorney Jim Walden will each appear on city election ballots on minor party lines.<\/p>\n

The Mamdani campaign had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gleeful Republicans will make socialist Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani a key campaign issue as they pound \u201cMamdani…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,22807,5248,7834,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,80,1054,5620,9294,7836,67,586,132,5230,8073,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-97787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bruce-blakeman","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-nassau-county","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-republican-party","21":"tag-republicans","22":"tag-staten-island","23":"tag-suffolk-county","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-upstate-new-york","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-us-news","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114927509703283538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97787","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=97787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}