‘911 Moment For The Democratic Party’: Former Clinton Pollster Sounds Alarm About ‘Antisemitic Socialist’ Mamdani

Former Clinton pollster Mark Penn warned on Wednesday that Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani of New York City poses a major threat to the Democratic Party.

Mamdani, a democratic socialist who campaigned on a slew of left-wing policies, including city-run grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage and has espoused anti-Israel views, won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June. Penn, on “America’s Newsroom,” said Mamdani’s views are “extreme,” but that he could become mayor if he manages to frame the race as him versus President Donald Trump, rather than competing with other mayoral candidates.

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“This is a 911 moment for the Democratic Party in the sense that he’s an antisemitic socialist. I think you have to throw both of those things at him because he has really not disavowed the global intifada. He has not really disavowed his comments that we should seize the means of production,” Penn said. “He is perhaps the most extreme major candidate ever to win such a major office. And the system itself, the primary system, has been hijacked. There normally would have been a run-off, which would have then exposed his views rather than his smiling through the primaries.”