Zohran Mamdani blamed bomb threats at multiple New Jersey polling locations on President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
The frontrunner to be New York City’s next mayor shared his opinion with reporters on the morning of Election Day, after bomb threats temporarily closed down polling sites in the Garden State.
Those threats, Mamdani said, were “part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country.”
The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist added: “It’s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy.”
Mamdani’s comments shocked a few Fox News personalities. America’s Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer, after playing video of Mamdani blaming Trump, asked “What in the world is he talking about?”
Kennedy said it sounded like something Kamala Harris would have spit out — only a little more tidy.
“He is serving up a Kamala-size word salad, but he’s using kale instead of romaine,” Kennedy said. “It’s just a slightly better finessed verbiage than we were given with her. This is emptiness, it means nothing. What he’s doing is deflecting because he doesn’t have an answer for this because he is not prepared, if God forbid, something like 9/11 happens again.”
She added it “scares the hell out” of her, thinking about Mamdani handling a disaster. Hemmer also noted one of the polling sites that closed down was in Passaic County, which supported Trump over Harris during the 2024 election.
Mamdani is projected to beat ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa to become NYC’s new mayor on Tuesday.
Trump has mocked Mamdani a few times for his socialist beliefs and has dubbed him “my little communist.”
Trump on Tuesday morning urged Jewish New Yorkers to not vote for Mamdani, who he called a “self professed JEW HATER.” The president also said, during an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, that he was not a “fan” of Cuomo — but he would still prefer to see Cuomo win the race.
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