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After an antisemitism watchdog posted a new video warning about socialist efforts to take over the Democratic Party from within, socialist leaders from across the country embraced the video and its message, appearing unafraid of such accusations. The Canary Mission's advertisement included recorded remarks from various leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) describing their opposition to, and in some cases "hatred" of the Democratic Party, which one speaker says must be torn down. The video also shared remarks from DSA leaders describing how the Democratic Party, which one of the socialist speakers in the video referred to as...

I didn’t know Zohran Mamdani was a Muslim when he first blazed onto my algorithms — and into national headlines. When I watched his victory speech after this summer’s New York mayoral primary, though, my first thought was, “He is familiar with faith.” I’ve developed a sixth sense for spotting religious fluency in secular spaces, and Mamdani had it. He was deft at deploying the language of belief, clearly comfortable with the soaring cadence of a sermon. “Every new voter registered, that is faith renewed,” he said that night, repeating “faith renewed” in a refrain. Mamdani has spoken about his...

Barack Obama praised Zohran Mamdani in a private telephone call on Saturday, with just days to go before the New York City mayoral election. The former US president described Mr Mamdani’s campaign as “impressive to watch” in the call and offered his services as a “sounding board”, according to The New York Times. Mr Obama, still a highly influential voice in the Democratic party, has avoided intervention in municipal contests since he left office and has not endorsed any candidate publicly in the New York race, which will go to the polls on Tuesday. In the phone call, which lasted...

Former President Barack Obama told Zohran Mamdani “your campaign has been impressive to watch,” and suggested that he was invested in Mr. Mamdani’s success beyond the election.Former President Barack Obama called Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner to become the next mayor of New York City, on Saturday, praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. The private, roughly 30-minute phone call, which has not previously been reported, was described by two people who participated or were briefed immediately on what had been said. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversation....

Surging early voting points to high turnout in the mayoral election. It’s a bad sign for the Democratic Socialist’s campaign Back in 2016, I suggested that Donald Trump was heading for victory, writing in the New York Post in June of that year: “As much as Trump might alienate and appal, his iconoclastic campaign aligns with what many across America are already thinking.” In The Telegraph nearly eight years later in December 2023, I correctly assessed that Kamala Harris, the vice-president at the time, was angling to oust her elderly boss, President Joe Biden.Now I have a new prediction....

Can the nation’s greatest city survive full-on socialism?It is still technically possible that self-declared democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will not become the next mayor of the nation’s largest city and financial capital of the world. But those chances might best be described as a wing and a prayer. One would have thought that New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani in the Democratic primary months ago without knowing much about him would reconsider their support once they learned the details of his plan to turn the city into a socialist utopia. But the smooth-as-silk 34-year-old native of Uganda continues to hold...

Crank up the sound for some fun! COMMIETOWN NEW YORK CITY 2025 COMING SOON. This is a great video from Greg Abbott.

I never touch Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, an aversion that goes back long before I got disgusted with the politics that its co-founders—Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, two Jewish kids from Long Island—espouse. I like my ice cream exquisitely simple (cream, whole milk, quality Dutch cocoa, egg yolks, a little white and a little brown sugar, a little vanilla, and a little almond extract = paradise). For that reason, I’ve always considered Ben & Jerry’s to be overly complicated, poisonously sweet glop. And then there were the politics. There are no leftist political issues that Ben & Jerry’s ice...

Zohran Mamdani routinely plays the tough guy — threatening to be President Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare,” snarling at ICE big Tom Homan like a leashed labradoodle — yet for all his bluster he somehow doesn’t have the stones to sit down with The Post. We invited all the mayoral candidates to sit down with the Editorial Board this year to share their vision for New York City and answer some questions; nearly all accepted, but Mamdani’s campaign blanked us. We called them; we emailed. After the primary, one flack suggested it might happen . . . but his team never...

https://www.cmcforum.com/post/bill-kristol-says-he-would-vote-for-zohran-mamdani-for-new-york-city-mayor

There’s a peculiar phenomenon in nature where lemmings supposedly march off cliffs in mass suicide. While that myth has been debunked, something eerily similar is happening in New York City, where voters appear ready to elect their own economic executioner.Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, commands a commanding 15-point lead in the mayoral race, polling at 46 percent to Andrew Cuomo’s 31 percent. His platform reads like a Bernie Sanders fever dream: rent freezes, free bus services, fully-funded daycare, city-owned grocery stores, and a $30 minimum wage. Young voters under 30 give him an astronomical 35-point advantage.The Uganda-born assemblyman, who...

As mayor, Mamdani has pledged to safeguard and expand access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion and gender-affirming care. His platform calls for doubling funding for both New York City’s Abortion Access Hub and the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF), ensuring that anyone can access abortion care regardless of income or immigration status. His plans also include an investment of $65 million in public clinics and sexual and reproductive health care providers to expand access to gender-affirming care and confronting private health care institutions that have refused to provide this critical care. Mamdani will also declare...

Billie Eilish’s acceptance speech at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards stayed with the attendees and resonated with the global audience. “I love you all, but there are a few people here with a lot more money than me,” she said. “If you’re a billionaire—why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties,” Billie said. Social media got flooded with one looming question: How Much Has Taylor Swift Donated? Swift reportedly donated about $6.5 million to charity in 2025. The total amount, however, is expected to be much higher as many charities didn’t reveal the exact...

Ahead of NY elections.. 70% are non-White, 10% are Muslim. Some 70% are non-White 57% are Christians some 10% are Muslim (immigrant or children of (Arabs, Pakistanis/Bangla), etc.,

We cannot win a war we aren’t even willing to acknowledge is being waged against us. It’s high time we do.Americans across the country usually have little reason to pay close attention to the politics of New York City — despite its size and status as the world’s financial capital — because it rarely affects them. However, as New Yorkers head to the ballot box next week to vote in the most significant mayoral race in decades, the eyes of the nation are fixated on the rise of a Marxist-Islamist as their likely choice in a city the nation rallied...

Cuomo dominates Jewish vote in final Quinnipiac poll before election. Once split between Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo, Jewish voters have coalesced behind the former governor, while Mamdani struggles to overcome skepticism New York City mayoral candidates Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani.

Neoconservative “Never Trumper” Bill Kristol endorsed socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying he wishes he was less “against Israel and all that” but calling him “a very impressive politician.”In an October 9 interview with Claremont McKenna College (CMC) student newspaper The Forum, the ex-Republican political commentator described the prospect of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo becoming mayor as “ridiculous.”##“You know, New York City gets to have a left-wing mayor,” Kristol told the outlet, which noted that he serves as chairman of the CMC center that hosts the student publication.“It’s not the first time, and it’s different...

This isn't something you hear often, but Andrew Cuomo is right. Yesterday, Townhall reported that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are using the Democratic Party to infiltrate American elections and usher in the socialist takeover of the United States. Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, is the trial balloon. Radical Leftists have also been taking over the Democratic Party for years; they're likely the reason the Democrats haven't voted to reopen the government. As Scott Jennings noted, the Democratic leadership is afraid of this increasingly violent, radical base. "The truth is, there's a quiet civil war going on in the...

It’s one of the strangest spectacles in modern American politics. The high-flying professionals of New York’s white-collar class are now marching behind an avowed socialist, Zohran Mamdani. These are the same lawyers, traders, and tech specialists who once embodied the American dream. His campaign thrives NOT in the boroughs where poverty festers but in luxury neighborhoods like Park Slope and Williamsburg, where median household incomes exceed $200,000— he’s even captured 43% of the overall well-off Jewish vote, with that number rising to a whopping 67% when you look at the voters between the ages of 18 and 44. Furthermore, a...

Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin voiced support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a video circulated on Instagram on Tuesday, calling Mamdani “a deeply thoughtful human being” who would be “the best NYC mayor imaginable,” adding that he and his family feel this “as New Yorkers” and “as Jews” who want “kindness, compassion and empathy” in politics