Like the Media Research Center, Newsmax had a major freakout that Zohran Mamdani won the primary for New York City major. Its coverage immediately after the election was filled with fearmongering:
- De Blasio to Newsmax: Mamdani Is Not an Antisemite
- Giuliani to Newsmax: Mamdani Primary Win a Victory for Communists
- Trump Chides NYC Voters After Socialist’s Win
- Schumer, Nadler Race to Embrace Mamdani Despite Israel Rift
- GOP Plans to Tie Dems to Zohran Mamdani
- Boca Raton Mayor Singer to Newsmax: We’ll Welcome New Yorkers Fleeing Mamdani
- Rep. Malliotakis to Newsmax: Mamdani’s Success Shows Dems Far Left
John Gizzi was relatively moderate by comparison in a June 27 column, cheering that current mayor Eric Adams “is now considering an active bid for re-election on the End Semitism and Safe and Affordable ballot lines,” highlighting how another mayoral candidate, Vincent Impelliteri, “ran as an independent against two major party nominees and pulled off the unprecedented feat of winning.”
George J. Marlin served up more fearmongering in his June 27 column:
Zohran Mamdani followed the playbook of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D.Y., (AOC), promising lots of free stuff to young, coddled left-wingers who were indoctrinated in leftist propaganda during their college years.
Mamdani pledged to stack the New York City Housing Board with members who would “freeze rents” on 400,000 rent-stabilized apartments.
He vowed to eliminate bus fares, provide free childcare, open government-owned supermarkets, go after hospitals that do not perform gender affirmative care, spend $65 million annually to promote such care, and create an office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs.
A past supporter of the “Defund the Police,” movement he declined to say if he would hire more law enforcement, but said he will empty jail cells, eliminate police overtime, cut back police patrols in minority neighborhoods, and repeal all criminal misdemeanors.
To pay for all of this — which will cost at least $10 billion annually — he told his followers that he would increase corporate taxes and Gotham’s income tax on the top 1% of taxpayers — who are already paying the highest combined state and city income taxes in the nation.
[…]The New York Democratic Party is now in the hands of the radical left wing whose policies will destroy the city both fiscally and economically.
Michael Dorstewitz mocked those who voted for Mamdani in his June 27 column:
So the college-educated voters preferred the socialist, putting an end to any idea that a four-year college degree makes you smarter. Suddenly all the anti-Israel, anti-Jew riots taking over many of America’s most prestigious college campuses make sense.
The same backward, anti-logical thinking applied to income levels.
[…]If not, the 1981 action-science fiction film, Escape From New York may come back as a battle cry for those New Yorkers who rely on their common sense more than higher education, to navigate their way through life.
And those 2.2 million New York Jews will definitely be looking for a new home.
A June 28 article by James Morley III served up some secondhand fearmongering: “The New York Post editorial board slammed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying the longtime Democrat’s ego will push far-left Zohran Mamdani into the mayor’s mansion this November.”