New York town hall candidate Mamdani refuses to contact “communist” labeling

Exclusive: Astoria, NY – New York Democrat mayor’s Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani refused to answer questions from Fox News Digital about the criticism of the communist and if he plans to resume one of his far -left statements.

Friday morning, outside his Queens apartment, Mamdani laughed at questions and did not answer, despite a meticulous examination like the mayor’s race between him, the mayor Eric Adams, the former governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and the Republican Curtis Sliwa warm up.

“Do you have an answer to those who call you a communist?” Fox News Digital asked Mamdani. “Do you plan to go back when you meet the leader Jeffries as seizing the means of production?”

Mamdani has laughed several times, but has not answered questions.

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Fox News digital journalist, Andrew Mark Miller, interviews New York Town Hall candidate Zohran Mamdani as he leaves his home in Queens, New York, Friday July 18, 2025. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., are among the votes that called Mamdani as “communist”, and many qualified him as a socialist.

“It was finally happened, the Democrats crossed the line. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% communist madman, has just won the Dem primary and is about to become mayor. We have already had radical leftrs, but it becomes a little ridiculous,” posted Trump on Truth Social.

“He looks terrible, his voice is creaky, he is not very intelligent, he has AOC + 3, the models, the supporter, and even our great Palestinian senator, shouting Chuck Schumer, approaches him. Yes, it’s a great moment in the history of our country!”

Zohran Mamdani leaves his house in Queens, New York, Friday July 18, 2025. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Trump Jr. echoes a similar feeling, saying that it could be the “biggest marketing campaign for Florida”, which has become a paradise for ex-Yorkers and is currently led by Conservatives.

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“But what happens to New York then? And as a New York for life, as a person who grew up here, someone who has changed the horizon line here with my father for many years before he launched in politics, it is a frightening idea, but it is perhaps exactly what America needs. Sometimes you have to touch rock,” I think that this communist mayor is elected,

New York mayor Eric Adams also underlined Mamdani’s past comments, including a tweet in 2020 in which Mamdani said “each according to their needs, each according to their capacity” in May 2020.
“- Karl Marx author of the Communist Manifesto,” replied Adams, a former democrat on July 7.

A clip from him circulating on social networks was also criticized for his comments on housing.

“My platform is that each person should have accommodation, and I think that in front of these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people without danger, right?” For what? ” Mamdani interviewed in a resurface -resurfaced video that circulated on social networks.

Mamdani’s incapacity to go back these positions could cause a calculation in the Democratic Party: “ Harning to five alarms’ ”

New York, New York – June 24: (LR) Mira Nair, candidate for New York Town Hall, representative of the Zohran Mamdani State (D -NY) Rama Duwaji and Mahmood Mamdani celebrate on stage during an electoral evening meeting at The Greats of Craft Lic on June 24, 2025 in the Urban district of Long Island in the Queens Borough in New York. Mamdani was announced as the winner of Democratic appointment to the mayor in a crowded area of the primary mayor of the city to choose a successor to the mayor Eric Adams, who presents himself to a re -election on an independent ticket. (Getty)

“If there was a system which could guarantee each person a accommodation, whether you called it the abolition of a private property or that you call it, you know, just a guarantee of housing across the state, it is preferable to what is happening today,” added Mamdani.

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“He claims to be a socialist, whether to want to abolish private property or want to seize the means of production, they are communist ideas from the start of the Karl Marx game book,” said representative Nicole Malotakis, R-Ny.

Mamdani is expected to meet on Friday the chief of the Democrat minority of the Hakeem Jefferies room in New York.

Fox News Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.