White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped Zohran Mamdani for his “completely irresponsible” comments blaming bomb threats at multiple New Jersey polling locations on President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
Leavitt, during a White House press briefing on Tuesday, was asked about Mamdani’s take by Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich.
“I saw those comments. I think they are completely irresponsible and based on zero evidence,” Leavitt said. “I think this is just another example of how the Democrat Party, unfortunately, stands for nothing; all they stand against is President Donald Trump.”
She continued: “And I think it’s quite sad to see that we have someone at the top of the ticket on an election day today saying such things about the president, when he obviously had nothing to do with those threats.”
Mamdani, earlier on Tuesday, said he believed Trump was the driving force behind bogus bomb threats that 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 is projected to beat ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa to become New York City’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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