Trump lashes out at Mamdani-backed primary wins in New York
Trump lashed out after three Mamdani-backed progressives toppled establishment Democrats in New York, giving Zohran Mamdani three potential allies in Congress.
Three Zohran Mamdani-endorsed candidates won congressional primaries on June 23, ousting two sitting House members and giving the New York City mayor three potential allies in Congress. By Wednesday morning, the president was posting repeatedly on Truth Social after the wins.
Brad Lander defeated Rep. Dan Goldman in the 10th District, Darializa Avila Chevalier beat Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th District, and Claire Valdez won the open 7th District seat being vacated by Rep. Nydia Velázquez. Trump used the results to revive a familiar line of attack. “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” he wrote, then added that there were “Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States,” and that those states would “ONLY GET WORSE.” He has repeatedly and inaccurately conflated democratic socialism with communism in attacks on Mamdani, who describes his politics as democratic socialist, not communist.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries opposed Mamdani’s candidates and brushed aside the results as too narrow to reshape House Democrats. Bernie Sanders, by contrast, celebrated the same wins as “landslide victories” and framed them as part of a grassroots progressive movement against oligarchs.
The New York contests landed amid a four-state primary day that also included races in Maryland, South Carolina and Utah. In Manhattan, another Democratic race for the seat of retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler drew Jack Schlossberg, but state Assemblyman Micah Lasher prevailed over Schlossberg, Alex Bores and others. The race drew about $20 million in spending from AI-company-affiliated PACs.
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