President Trump reacted to the results Tuesday night in a post on Truth Social, quoting anonymous pollsters: “‘TRUMP WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, AND SHUTDOWN, WERE THE TWO REASONS THAT REPUBLICANS LOST ELECTIONS TONIGHT,’ according to Pollsters.”
Later, Trump reiterated calls for congressional Republicans to “terminate the filibuster” and “pass voter reform.” And he capped off the evening with a cryptic post: “…AND SO IT BEGINS!”
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, who has been described as an architect of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, appeared to rationalize Mamdani’s victory in New York City by posting on X a screenshot of a statistic that says, “Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in family households with at least one immigrant.”
Other Republicans reacted to Mamdani’s win with fear-mongering language similar to that which failed in the campaign opposing the 34-year-old Democrat.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, La.) claimed: “Democrats in New York City have chosen a true extremist and Marxist, and the consequences will be felt across our entire nation.” Johnson posted on X that “Zohran Mamdani’s election cements the Democrat Party’s transformation to a radical, big-government socialist party,” and that while “Mamdani’s extreme agenda is the future of the Democrat Party,” the GOP “will never allow it to be the future of America.”
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, (R, La.) echoed Johnson on X, saying that New York City has “officially fallen to the radical socialist wing of the Democrat party and New Yorkers will pay the price.”
Rep. Randy Fine (R, Fla.) posted on X: “Legal immigrants who hate America elected a Communist Muslim Jihadist. New York City has fallen. America is next if we don’t stop it.”
“Bread lines about to be a real thing in New York. Congrats,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R, S.C.) posted.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted, “Join me for a moment of silence for NYC. Thoughts & prayers.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking to Fox News Tuesday night as results came in, said that Mamdani will “make the de Blasio reign look like the ‘golden age,’” referring to the unpopular Democratic former Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Sen. Rick Scott (R, Fla.) invited those disappointed with Mamdani’s victory to move. “Florida has welcomed those fleeing communist and socialist regimes for decades,” Scott posted. “Tonight is no different—Florida will welcome all freedom-loving New Yorkers!”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R, N.Y.) reposted comments he made about Mamdani on Fox News earlier Tuesday. “You have an avowed socialist engaged in Marxist theory talking about freezing the rent, banning private property ownership, seizing the means of production, defunding the police, shutting down prisons, legalizing prostitution, oh, and raising taxes by $9 billion in the financial capital of the world,” he said, before alluding to 2026 midterm elections: “Yeah, this is not going to go well in the suburbs of New York next year.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R, N.Y.), who is reportedly set to launch a bid for New York governor, blamed incumbent Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, who endorsed Mamdani, for Mamdani’s victory, saying that under Hochul, New York City “has now fallen to a pro-Hamas, Defund the Police, Tax Hiking, Antisemite Jihadist Communist.”
“And instead of standing up for hardworking New York families, Kathy Hochul proved once again that she is truly the Worst Governor in America with her desperate endorsement of Commie Mamdani,” Stefanik posted on X.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, which supports GOP members in Congress, said in a statement that the Democratic Party “has surrendered to radical socialist Zohran Mamdani and the far-left mob who are now running the show.” According to NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella, Democrats have “proudly embraced defunding the police, abolishing ICE, taxing hard-working Americans to death, and replacing common sense with chaos. Every House Democrat is foolishly complicit in their party’s collapse, and voters will make them pay in 2026.”
“has surrendered to radical socialist Zohran Mamdani and the far-left mob who are now running the show.”
GOP doesn’t get to use the term “radical” as a derisive term anymore. The radical GOP representative in the highest office is literally tearing down the White house to build a gilded ballroom against the law with dark money contributors while simultaneously denying our basic nutrition safety net to the most needy 41.7 million Americans.
And giving $40 billion to Argentina to bail out Sociopathic Oligarchs who made super risky investments into a country that has gone bankrupt 20 times in 70 years, on average of every 3.5 years.
Of course, it’s not a risky investment, if you know the president will bail you out rather than give health care or food to the citizens.
Agreed. They have lost all rights to talk about anyone else being “radical” without people pointing and laughing right in their faces.
Communist Muslim Jihadist
Antisemite Jihadist Communist
Etc etc. What started with the Neocons years ago consistently saying “Democrat Party” as a kind of internal slur has devolved into a constant word salad of GOP buzzwords designed to incite fear.
But that shit doesn’t work forever. Eventually even supporters become blind to it, and it all starts to lose meaning. That’s when everyone starts soundng like nothing but parrots.
When these buzzwords wear out they’ll find or coin new ones.
The buzzwords are also a cult language. They are nonsensical words and statements designed only to signal to fellow bigots.
Bread lines are about to be a real thing in New York
Yeah. And Mamdani wasn’t the reason for that at all. That’s entirely on the GOP.
There used to be bread lines, they were called Bagel Shops.
Remember when there used to be a bagel shop every few blocks? And a pizza shop? And a deli? Then they all combined into one for a while, and then they went out of business, too.
The reason is out of control rent. Past Mayors allowed it to happen, even watched it roll out slowly over many years. Who knows if Mamdani can help this, but maybe he’ll at least try. We all knew the other guys weren’t going to do shit, even as we voted for them. We got a shot with ZM.
Mamdani will run bread lines. Republicans grab you off the streets and send you to labor camps.
“Zohran Mamdani’s election cements the Democrat Party’s transformation to a radical, big-government socialist party,”
They have been screaming this louder and louder since at least 1980, and they reached maximum volume decades ago. Nobody even hears this nonsense any more. It’s like their rosary, or something, just some incantation they all say mindlessly.
The ironic thing is that description defines MAGA more than the Democratic party. Nobody is more radical, more Big Government, and is redistributing wealth more than MAGA, and that’s just a fact.
since at least 1980
Since 1932.
Valid.
Holy crap they sound sooo scared that Mamdani is going to show the rest of the US how social Democrats/progressives should be running the show.
I for one look forward to hearing good things outta NY.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R, La.) claimed: “Democrats in New York City have chosen a true extremist and Marxist, and the consequences will be felt across our entire nation.” Johnson posted on X that “Zohran Mamdani’s election cements the Democrat Party’s transformation to a radical, big-government socialist party,” and that while “Mamdani’s extreme agenda is the future of the Democrat Party,” the GOP “will never allow it to be the future of America.”
Pedophile Protector Party not happy.
Marxist, communist, radical, jihadist, antisemite, pro-Hamas.
It’s like they are running a contest to see who can use the most scary words possible. Not as racist a response as I was expecting though…
Waiting for Dems to reply in kind: “billionaire-enriching, pedophile-protecting…
And why don’t they? They can literally point to actual evidence, trial, and imprisonments as proof. Not PedoCons? Then why is that pedocunt in prison?
Dems are far too fucking POLITE for their own fucking good. They don’t have to cheat and steal or molest children, like MAGAs, they just have to play HARD BALL, with big fucking bats.
And stop calling them Republicans. That was their larval stage. They have emerged from their corrupt cocoons, and have fully morphed into MAGAs, the most vile political entity since the Nazis.
Difference is the labels in the latter case are accurate by all accounts.
Really doubt Mamdani is a jihadist, but we see a Republican arrested for child porn at least quarterly. 🤷♂️
I am actually curious if he considers himself a Marxist. Any information on this?
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cgmxlvgz9yko
No. Democratic socialist.
I believe you can be both a demsoc and a Marxist, no?
You can also be one without being a Marxist.
I’m aware, that’s why it was a question.
In most European countries, he’d be a social democrat.
When Trump was elected we were told by various Rs and D ass-kissers that it was the will of the people.
These election results are also the will of the people. The people are not happy and the federal government would do well to abide by it.
It’s only the “will” of the conservatives that matter, though.
Even if Taco barely pulls in a (dubious) plurality of the actual population, that’s the Will of the People, and An Historic Landslide, etc.
“ThErE’s A mAnDaTe Of ThE pEoPlE tO dO wHaTeVeR tHe FuCk I wAnT!” -Trump
So… what is the “mAnDaTe” now, fascist?
Eventually the mandate will be “Off with their heads!”
Oh my goodness, the sky is falling.
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Aw that sucks. I had hoped he’d react with an aneurysm.
And Donald is still referring to himself in the third person. You know, as sane people often do. /s
Bob Dole knows that that’s a mistake Bob Dole made.
Sounds just like a human being made of meat.
He’s gotten a lot worse at it lately, too. It’s obviously some new thing they think is going help somehow.
Has he? I don’t know if the frequency has increased - I generally stopped listening to him entirely some time ago - but I seem to vividly recall that affectation raising my eyebrows during his 2016 campaign.
There certainly would never be any bread lines with the republicans in charge. You can be sure of that!
Yeah, cause there won’t be any bread.
there will be bread. just not for you. or me. or really most folk.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted, “Join me for a moment of silence for NYC. Thoughts & prayers.”
Well… This probably means they won’t do anything about it.
“Democrats in New York City have chosen a true extremist and Marxist, and the consequences will be felt across our entire nation.”
“Zohran Mamdani’s election cements the Democrat Party’s transformation to a radical, big-government socialist party”
“Mamdani’s extreme agenda is the future of the Democrat Party”
I literally LOLd, eating by myself in a restaurant. Good thing nobody is around.
Of course no one’s in the restaurant. They’re giving away free bread outside now that Mamdani’s won, haven’t you heard? Go get some while it’s still hot!
Hopefully that free bread is wrapped around some good falafels, with a pickle and some tahini sauce.
