At 39% unfavorable and only 25% favorable, Mamdani isn’t the face of a populist movement.
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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.