Mayor Eric Adams called Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani a communist while answering a question about why Hakeem Jeffries and Yvette Clarke did not endorse Mamdani. The remark misstates Mamdani's ideology; Democratic socialists and communists are not the same. Mamdani won the Democratic primary over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by nearly 13 percent and is the party's nominee. President Trump has repeatedly attacked Mamdani with similar language and threatened federal intervention. Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec accused Adams of recycling Cold War insults to distract from corruption scandals and crises affecting his administration and reelection efforts.
It speaks volumes that Eric Adams would rather recycle Cold War insults than deal with the exhausting list of corruption and crises consuming his City Hall, Pekec said. While he's busy dodging indictments, delivering for his billionaire Trump donors, and holding a 30-year low approval rating, Zohran's focused on the issues that matter: making the most expensive city in the world more affordable and restoring trust in government.
when asked why he thinks Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke both of whom represent swaths of Brooklyn did not endorse Mamdani after meeting with him on Tuesday. Number one, he's not a Democrat, you know, he's a communist, said Adams misstating the democratic socialist Mamdani's political ideology as communist. Democratic socialists and communists are not one in the same.
Since Mamdani's upset primary win, Trump has railed against him as a pure communist and a 100% communist lunatic, while threatening to strip him of his citizenship and federally take over the Big Apple if he becomes mayor. Mamdani campaign spokesperson Dora Pekec, in a statement, charged that Adams is trying to distract from new corruption scandals that have plagued his administration and reelection campaign over the past week.
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