June 29, 2025 09:33 PM IST
While Zoharan Mamdani recognizes himself as a Democratic socialist, his critics including Donald Trump have repeatedly called him a communist.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his attack on Zoharan Mamdani, a candidate from New York City, called him a “communist”.
In American politics, being labeled as a communist, is a strong stigma, lies in the history of the Cold War of the country with the former Soviet Union. While Mamdani identifies as a democratic socialist, Critics, including Trump, have repeatedly referred to him as a communist.
“He is a communist. I think it is very bad for New York. I don’t think he is going to go inside, but he is a communist and a pure communist. I think he feels that he accepts it. I can not imagine it, but suppose that if he goes inside, I am going to be the President and he is going to do the right thing.”
Republican If they do not ‘behavior’, whoever becomes the mayor of New York city, threatened to overthrow.
Trump said, “I can tell you, whoever is the mayor of New York, has to behave himself, or the federal government is financially strict on them,” Trump said.
Zoharan Mamdani has promised to take action against ice
Zoharan Mamdani If he is elected mayor in the November elections, the immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) is promised not to be allowed to operate in New York City. Since returning to Donald Trump’s office in January, the federal agency has come under investigation, arresting and reporting from various parts of the country, sometimes in disregard of courts.
Mamdani, son of Indian-American filmmaker Meera Nair, On Tuesday, he defeated former New York Governor Andrew Kuomo at Democratic Primary. In about four months, he will withstand Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent and Republican candidate Curtis Silva in the Mayorl Poll.
