The Republicans use Mamdani’s victory to target Democrats in key races nationwide

Gilsum, NH – The Republicans do not lose the opportunity to make the Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani a waste to denigrate the Democrats across the country.

The superb primary victory of the mayor of Mamdani in the most populous city in the country rocked the political world, adding fuel to an already volatile electoral season.

The Republicans were relentlessly trying to anchor Mamdani with Democrats across the country who present themselves in competitive races in the elections this year and halfway up next year.

This is the case in New Hampshire, in the high level race of 2026 to succeed in retirement from the Democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen.

The republican candidate and former senator Scott Brown increased this week with a digital announcement that publishes a photo of the representative Chris Pappas, the Democratic candidate in the race, alongside photos of Mamdani and the Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star that supported Mamdani.

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A digital announcement of former senator Scott Brown, republican candidate in the Senate in New Hampshire, changes a photo of the Democratic candidate together in the 2026 race, representative Chris Pappas, alongside the photos of Zohran Mamdani and the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Senate Scott Brown campaign)

The legend on the announcement indicates “Comrade Chris”.

Pappas, speaking with Fox News on Friday on the campaign track while visiting WS Badger, a natural and organic society of skin care and sunscreen in this city in the southwest of New Hampshire, “Republicans have spent tens of millions of dollars for having broadcast advertisements against me over the years over the years to paint me like someone I am not.”

“People know me. They know the work I do. They know that I am one of the most bipartite members of the House of Representatives because I think you have to solve problems and get things done,” Pappas said. “I am a Democrat in New Hampshire. I am proud of my history at Congress.”

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Pappas was joined on the campaign of the campaign by longtime Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, who spent a lot of time in New Hampshire before his third place in the Presidential Democratic Primary of the State in 2020.

“This is the New Hampshire. They will do it in all these races across the country. They try to attach people. People have never even met some of these people. And they continue to do so,” Klobuchar told Fox News when he asked him questions about the Republican Ad anchor in Pappas. “For me, that’s what’s going on for the people of this state.”

The Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota joins the representative Chris Pappas, the candidate of the Democratic Senate of 2026 in the State, during a tour of WS Badger, in Gilsum, New Hampshire, on July 11, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

The National Committee of the Republican Congress (NRCC) was one of the first outings of the door to take advantage of the drop in the left of Mamdani, drawing an email a few minutes after his victory which said: “The new face of the Democratic Party has just fallen, and it is straight out of a socialist nightmare.”

Aiming to link the Democrats of the Chamber to Mamdani, the spokesperson for the NRCC, Mike Marinella, argued that “each democrat in the vulnerable chamber will have it, and each democrat who ran in a primary will fear him”.

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign (NRSC) also quickly entered the game, linking Pappas and Abdul El -Sayed – one of the pretenders to the Democratic appointment in the Senate in the battlefield of Michigan – in Mamdani.

No surprise – Republican attacks even came from the president Donald TrumpWho, since the victory of Mamdani, two weeks ago, said on several occasions that the assembly of State of Ugandan, 33, of the New York district, is a “communist”.

Mamdani, who convincingly exceeded former governor Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to seize the mayor’s democratic appointment and take a big step to become the first Muslim mayor of the city, gives the Republicans many ammunition.

He proposed to eliminate the prices to set up the vast New York bus system, making CUNY (City University of New York) rents, freezing rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycares” for children until the age of 5 and the establishment of grocery stores managed by the government.

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Recent news that has become viral are also fed by republican attacks. They include a photo of 2020 that Mamdani published online which shows him to reverse a statue of Christopher Columbus, stories about the comments that Mamdani made last December, when he declared that the mayor he would stop Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recent comments in an interview with cable that “I have many criticisms of capitalism”.

Zohran Mamdani is surrounded by supporters after a press conference with union leaders in New York on July 2, 2025. (Reuters / David ‘Dee’ Delgado)

“The Democratic Party tries to convince people that the tail does not move the dog, and they do not respond to the most extreme elements of their party,” said Colin Reed, the veteran republican strategist, Fox News. “Now, all the effort is a counter-deputy by a winning socialist with an election in Bellwether to determine who will lead the largest American city.”

“It is a messaging nightmare that will take place in real time until mid-term,” said Reed, who is one of Brown’s main political advisers.

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The veteran political scientist Wayne Lesperance told Fox News that “the main challenge for Democrats concerning Mamdani’s candidacy is not his political approach. The challenge is his identification of the party as a democratic socialist”.

“If there is a doubt about the negative implications for the addition of the socialist word to the affiliation of the Mamdani party, it is enough to browse the national coverage whose objective was on its party and the absence of leadership of the party to rush to its defense or to offer adventures,” said Lesperance, president of the New England College.

The now Democratic town hall candidate Zohran Mamdani goes on stage during his main electoral group in New York on June 24, 2025. (AP photo / Heather khalifa)

But the Democrats question the effectiveness of the GOP thrust.

They argue that there is a world of difference between the highly blue city of New York, where the Democrats are more numerous than the Republicans by a margin of about six to one, and certain states of the battlefield and the oscillating districts across the country.

Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee told journalists the day after Mamdani’s victory that “I like New York, but it is a very liberal place and I don’t know that you can necessarily apply it to the rest of the country”.

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Pappas campaign communications advisor Collin Gately said the announcement of the Brown campaign and said: “Granite staters trust Chris and will see through these attacks.”

And the veteran democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo warned: “I wouldn’t read too much.”

Caiazzo, a veteran of the presidential campaigns of Senator Bernie Sanders and 2020, argued that “Les Républicains make it too much”.