New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is being touted as an “undeniable power broker” after his slate of radical socialist endorsees won in state and national races on Tuesday night. This might seem like good news for Republicans, since it can make the national Democrats look extreme.
Media Coverage
The broadcast networks have a serious problem finding anyone too extreme on the left. The Democrats will try to absorb these radicals and cater to them, and it’s already obvious the networks are downplaying their radicalism and playing up their mass appeal to voters.
On Monday night, “PBS News Hour” pundit Amy Walter strangely tried to claim that a victory by the radicals in New York didn’t mean anything nationally, that somehow we won’t know the tilt of the Democrats until the Michigan primary in August – where radical doctor Abdul el-Sayed is leading in the Senate primary race.
On Wednesday morning, CBS reporter Ed O’Keefe sounded a similar note, that this “won’t be a factor in every race across the country, and Democrats certainly aren’t nominating socialists everywhere else.” But there are a growing number of Bernie/AOC Democrats running across the country. In Wisconsin, gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong announced that her “perfect world” is one without prisons.
Concerns Over Radicalism
O’Keefe also downplayed the extreme views these Democrats have in Israel, favoring Hamas and the dissolution of Israel. He described their view vaguely as “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”
National Public Radio brought on Mamdani on Wednesday night’s “All Things Considered” newscast, but only considered how well he was doing. Scott Detrow’s slate of softball questions included this: “This is the latest in a series of primary wins this spring and summer for democratic socialist candidates. There’s been wins in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, here in Washington, D.C.’s mayor race, now New York congressional races. Why, to you, does the DSA message seem to be resonating so well right now?”
Mamdani happily answered: “It speaks to the fact that working people are fed up. And when we look at this country, we know that the only majority that really exists is that of the working class.” Mamdani used variants of “working people” or “working class” 13 times in the interview.
Original reporting: Fox News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
