All posts tagged "Zohran Mamdani"

A conservative pundit's defense of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his speech from the GOP midterm convention sparked uproar and confusion on CNN.

During a Thursday night roundtable, National Review writer Noah Rothman tried to defend Cruz after the pundits around him were alarmed by the senator's comments about Muslims. Cruz went after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and said "communists and Islamists" are invading the Democratic Party.

Former Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera argued that Republicans like Cruz are scared by Mamdani's "overwhelming success" and how he's "defying all of the pundits, all of the inside crowd."...

Fox News host Jesse Watters was mocked for ranting and dropping unfounded claims about New York City during a live broadcast on Friday.

The conservative host of "The Five" was responding to President Donald Trump's comments about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent freeze, which was approved by the New York City Board, and remarks about what the president called "commies."

"I just found out — New York City — half of the city is on Medicaid," Watters said. "Twenty percent of the city is on food stamps, five percent of the city lives in the projects, 70 percent of the city is not white, 40 percent of the city wasn't even born in America. We're going down a dangerous road."...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and tenant organizers celebrated a “historic victory” on Thursday after the city’s Rent Guidelines Board approved a two-year rent freeze affecting roughly a million apartments—around 40% of NYC’s rental housing.

The freeze, approved in a 7-1 vote, applies to tenants in rent-stabilized apartments on new one- and two-year leases beginning on or after October 1, 2026. Mamdani, whose mayoral campaign platform vowed to “immediately freeze the rent for all stabilized tenants,” said in a statement that the vote provides “the relief that working people across our city deserve.”

The mayor, who named six of the rent board’s nine members, pledged to “continue working to deliver a more affordable city by building and preserving affordable housing, lowering building operating costs like insurance, and ensuring tenants know their rights.”...

A CNN pundit shut down a conservative who kept interrupting her by yelling in his face.

Leigh McGowan, a political commentator and the host of the PoliticsGirl podcast, got locked in a fiery exchange with Jason Rantz, a conservative radio host, during their appearance on CNN on Tuesday.

The debate centered around Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila Chevalier, a congressional candidate who won the Democratic primary for New York's 13th Congressional District on Tuesday. Rantz argued that socialism and antisemitism will help Republicans win congressional seats in the midterms, while McGowan countered that he was exaggerating extreme views as mainstream in the Democratic Party....

The head of the Department of Homeland Security is getting an earful after he told New Yorkers to "wise up."

During a press conference, Markwayne Mullin went after New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his constituents.

"He and I don't get along," Mullin said about Mamdani. "It's shameful, and hopefully people in New York will wise up and get a true leader in there in a few years."...

A terrorism analyst on Monday explained how the United States-Israel war against Iran might have activated sleeper cells and has concerned law enforcement.

Alex Plitsas, counterterrorism program director for the Atlantic Council, told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that recent attacks had suggested increased activity among terrorist sleeper cells. Plitsas cited the attempted attack Saturday by two men charged with using weapons of mass destruction and supporting the Islamic State after throwing a bomb near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Gracie Mansion, in addition to two other recent terrorism-related incidents — the attack on a nightclub in Austin, Texas, and a bombing outside the U.S. embassy in Oslo, Norway. He also described a new report that revealed an encrypted transmission was intercepted by the U.S., which has prompted concern among security experts and law enforcement.

Tapper asked Plitsas how worried he was about the recent attacks. ...