Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has put her party in a really awkward position. While many in her party have avoided explicitly endorsing New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Warren went all in in supporting him, and that’s going to be a problem.
“For me, New York City is the place to start the conversation for Democrats on how affordability is the central issue, the central reason to be a Democrat, and that delivering on it in meaningful, tangible ways that will touch working families is why we’re here,” Warren said earlier this week. “When someone stands up and says, ‘I will lead this city by making it more affordable — and here are my plans, real plans, plans to deliver on childcare, plans to deliver on housing, plans to deliver. We’re going to experiment. We’re going to try things on groceries.’ That is the Democratic message.”
Elizabeth Warren says Mamdani’s plan is the “Democratic Message”
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So just to be clear, this is the official democratic message:
- Defund the police
- Release all the criminals from prison
- Disarm law abiding citizens
- seize your property
- free child m*tiIation
- ban ICE pic.twitter.com/13YTGI3TWO
As the New York Post noted, Mamdani’s fellow New Yorkers Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Gov. Kathy Hochul have avoided outright endorsing Mamdani after the Queens state Assemblyman trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic mayoral primary. This upset prompted a wave of soul-searching among more moderate Dems wary of a socialist being the party’s standard-bearer.
Will more Democrats embrace the socialism that Mamdani and Warren champion?
The Massachusetts senator’s blessing came as Mamdani continues to struggle to gain actual endorsements from other high-profile Dems, notably his fellow New Yorkers Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s minority leader, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
All three avoided outright endorsing Mamdani after the Queens state Assemblyman trounced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in June’s Democratic mayoral primary — an upset that prompted a wave of soul-searching among more moderate Dems wary of a socialist being the party’s standard-bearer.
Warren is placing her chips on America's readiness to embrace socialism. Maybe that won’t hurt her in Massachusetts, but it’s not good for the party overall. The Democratic Party is struggling to find its way after the 2024 elections.
More from the New York Post:
And Mamdani recently came under fire when it was revealed he checked both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on his unsuccessful college application to Columbia University.
He was born in Uganda.
“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” the Queens lawmaker said at the time.
Republicans in New York and across the US, for their part, gleefully view the socialist as a way to hammer their opponents as radical, out-of-town “Mamdani Democrats.”
Ohio GOP gubernatorial contender Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday warned a Mamdani win would be a “wake-up” call for the dangers of socialism.
It will be. Who is going to follow Warren's lead?
