Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said on Saturday that numerous high-profile Democrats in New York have allowed the “Marxist-communist wing” of the Democratic Party to become “mainstream.”
Stefanik responded to the 2025 New York City mayoral election, in which socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary. Stefanik said both House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) voted in this primary, but have “refused to condemn” Mamdani’s controversial statements.
“So New Yorkers are looking for common sense, they are looking for strong leadership, strong moral leadership, strong economic leadership,” Stefanik said on Fox News’s Life, Liberty & Levin. “We do not want to continue to exacerbate the mass exodus that has occurred from New York state and specifically New York City
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