SCOOP: House Republicans link Mayor-elect Mamdani to vulnerable congressional Democrats

By Fox News · Fox News

FIRST ON FOX : The House GOP's campaign arm is wasting no time in linking New York City's democratic socialist mayor-elect to congressional Democrats facing challenging re-elections in next year's midterm elections. Hours after Zohran Mamdani 's election victory in New York City's mayoral election, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Wednesday launched a digital ad spotlighting him, which is running in nearly 50 competitive House districts. "A radical left earthquake just hit America. The epicenter: New York," says the narrator in the NRCC spot, which was shared first with Fox News Digital. The narrator argues that "the new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani built his movement on defunding the police and abolishing ICE. Now the socialists are celebrating. They call it progress. We call it chaos. Bureaucrats instead of doctors. Social workers instead of cops." HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ON THE 2025 ELECTIONS "This is the future House Democrats want, and your city could be next. Stop socialism. Stop Democrats," concludes the narrator, under pictures of Mamdani and House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Jeffries, the top Democrat in the chamber, endorsed Mamdani last week, nearly four months after Mamdani sent political shockwaves across the nation with his convincing win over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates to capture the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination. THE LATEST FOX NEWS REPORTING ON THE NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL ELECTION IS RIGHT HERE Since Mamdani's primary victory, Republicans have repeatedly aimed to make the now-34-year-old Ugandan-born state lawmaker from New York City the new face of the Democratic Party, as they work to characterize Democrats as far-left socialists. Mamdani defeated Cuomo and two-time Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa in Tuesday's election, making history as the first Muslim and first millennial mayor of the nation's most populous city. He…