Mayor Adams known as Zohran Mamdani a “communist” Wednesday, ratcheting up the rhetoric aimed on the Democratic mayoral frontrunner and echoing latest feedback made by President Trump.
“Number one, he’s not a Democrat, he’s a communist,” Adams stated from a Bronx press convention in response to a query about Home Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries not but endorsing Mamdani regardless of assembly with him twice.
Mamdani is a democratic socialist, and Adams’ label mirrored President Trump’s frequent assaults on Mamdani — and different political opponents by branding them as communists. Trump has known as Mamdani a “communist” and has stated that he would flip New York Metropolis into “a communistic city.”
The Mamdani camp known as out the mayor’s language.
“It speaks volumes that Eric Adams would rather recycle Cold War insults than deal with the exhausting list of corruption and crises consuming his City Hall,” Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for Mamdani, responded.
“While he’s busy dodging indictments, delivering for his billionaire Trump donors, and holding a 30-year low approval rating, Zohran’s focused on the issues that matter: making the most expensive city in the world more affordable and restoring trust in government.”
Adams and Andrew Cuomo are each operating on impartial poll traces and are cosnidered effectively to the precise of Mamdani.
Cuomo additionally launched broadsides in opposition to Zohran Mamdani for his left-wing politics on Wednesday, slamming him as being “owned” by the Democratic Socialists of America, of which the candidate is a member
“Zohran is owned by the DSA,” Cuomo stated to reporters.
