At 39% unfavorable and only 25% favorable, Mamdani isn’t the face of a populist movement.
After Mamdani’s wins, some Republicans decided that he represented a national populist movement they should be listening to.
President Trump has had way too many meetings with Mamdani, which struck me as completely needless, how many meetings did he take with DeBlasio, and we’ve had various Republicans praising Mamdani and his leftist allies.
Echoing President Trump, Vance said he thinks Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is a communist. Despite this, he said Mamdani focusing “so aggressively on the affordability question in New York City, which does have one of the worst affordability crises anywhere in the world, is smart, and he’s at least listening to people.”
Vance also cited Trump’s meeting with Mamdani last month, where the president praised the New York Democrat. After he met with him, Vance called Mamdani “fascinating.”
“Most politicians, it’s a very low bar, but they don’t even listen to people,” Vance added. “I would put Mamdani, Bernie and Ro Khanna in the category of those who, at least sometimes, they are.”
The HarrisX poll numbers show that Mamdani doesn’t represent some populist national movement, just the DSA.
Among key politicians today, voters have a more favorable view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (+4 net favorable), and Marco Rubio (+4), and a more unfavorable view of Abdul El-Sayed (-18), Chuck Schumer (-17), and Zohran Mamdani (-14).
Mamdani’s net favorability is at -14 with a 39% unfavorable and only 25% favorable. Trump and Vance both have better approval ratings than Mamdani.
Tucker Carlson has an even worse approval rating than Mamdani.
Nobody likes these people. They’re a fringe Communist-Islamist movement that is exploiting its control over the media and narrow Democrat primaries in cities where there’s no political opposition from the center or the right to seize power. That doesn’t mean they represent anything larger than that.
Even on the verge of deciding to run for president, AOC’s approval rating is at 32% with a 38% disapproval and another third with no opinion.
There’s no need to kiss up to them or pander to them.
Westman says
Bertrand Russell was asked about why Maxism failed and his reply was that Marx did not expect his philosophy to make the underdog happy, rather it was to make the wealthy and/or powerful unhappy.
Isn’t that the same result for which Islam strives? In Mamdani do we not see how Marxism and Islam can be complimentary. Islam rejects Marxism because it must, by Allah’s command, become the only ruling power, and that happens after Marxism has assisted its rise to power.
When Mamdani stands in front of a billionaires penthouse, grinning like a Cheshire Cat over taxing him, Marxists should know they are also on the list, only delayed.
Westman says
And Republicans should realize they are first on both the Marxist and Islamists lists.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It started w/ our 5D chess champion (whetever that means) indulging him in the Oval Office. Now, other equally bright Republicans think that that is a model to follow
somehistory says
Truth is in short supply. Or as John Denver sang, “Truth is hard to come by.”
The Truth is, the slug sitting in the NYC mayor’s office, giving pens to terrorists, has diabolical intent for the citizens of NYC and wherever his muzzie cohorts can reach.
If the President and VP wanted to do all citizens a great favor, they would tell the Truth about the slug, and refuse any more praise of or meetings with him.
Horatio says
If it looks like the President and VP are acting in an irresponsible and stupid manner could it be because they are irresponsible and stupid?
Billy says
Another Terrorist of Allah pursues discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism against Non-Muslims as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.”
Allah tells Muslims to annihilate Allah’s enemies, Non-Muslims, who oppose, criticize, contradict, disbelieve, or deny Allah, his Apostle, and Islam(Qur’an 4:95; 5:33; 9:29, 41; 47:4; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 5:33 says, “Surely the reward of those who war against Allah and his messenger and go about to vandalize on the earth is only that they will be killed or crucified or have their hands and legs cut off on opposite sides or they will be banished from the earth. This is their disgrace in this world, and in the hereafter they will have a great torment.”
joanofark06 says
Glad you are educated on Islam. I wish everyone was. Your practically the only one out of all the comments, that brings the truth to light. “They” call Mamdani every name in the book…socialist, communist, etc etc. But I know where his head and heart is, even though he can’t show people his true face…yet. He spoke their language, and if you missed him talking Islam at the beginning of his office, you missed what he truly is.
So I’ve never heard of markist, a socialist, or a communist, muslim….
a says
Madmani is a snake in the long grass of the Big Apple and he will bring it all crashing down within two years.
Glad I lived in NYC in the early 1980s as it was a great City back then..
I lived on East 9St and 2Ave.. East Village, wild days..
bill says
Courting Madmani ? Why when he is the polar opposite of everything they stand for?
meme says
Mamdani is the Trojan Horse for Qatar-Turkey-Pakistan! Funded, supported & promoted by these 3 corrupt Islamofascist regimes one of which is still in NATO(!) and “aspires” for EU membership! Good luck to that latter wish. Although we all know that the “leaders” of the EU are as desperate as “inviting” Sultan Erdgoan to be its “Defense Contractor” for SAFE to “protect” the EU from “attacks”! From whom?
Not for the Islamist imams and Sharia courts already installed in EU “progressive” but suicidal countries?
As for the UK its epitaph is being written and is almost at the RIP. And so will be France soon. As for Germany, the AfD (so-called “Extremist Right Wingers”, well, they can fool the Germans with their Election rhetoric, but not the rest of us! The AFD has been flirting with Sulatan Erdogan’s Islamist voters for years. So a Vote for the AFD is a Vote for Erdogan!. Enjoy German independence.
The U.S. is doing all it can to help Tucker’s new-found Islamist “enlightenment”. His new home in Doha, to assist in commuting to Al-Jazeera for his part-time job and needs rennovations after the recent ill behaving Iranian regime, and Qatar will gladly be providing a Contractor’s reference–pro bono work, again…
EU is past its prime. It has chosen to be on the Wrong side of Civilization, literally spitting on its Judeo-Christian roots and appears to enjoy national self-mutilation and geopolitical extinction. Merkel has done a terrific job and the EU countries are finishing the job according to Qatar’s trillion-dollar bet.which appears successful.
And Hamas is building more tunnels, funded by Qatar, this time in Turkey under their headquarters next to Al-Qaeda-ISIS Charitable Foundation.