De Blasio defends democratic socialist Mamdani’s NYC mayoral primary win

Former mayor of New York Metropolis, Invoice de Blasio, mentioned ‘Fox Information @ Night time’ on Wednesday that he believes that the fears concerning the victory of Zohran Mamdani within the Democratic Major are enormously exaggerated.

Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, claimed the victory within the democratic mayor of New York Metropolis, Tuesday, after former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo admitted the race.

Though the results of the race nonetheless must be decided by a ranked rely on July 1, the intense left-wing coverage proposals of Mamdani brought on the worry of extra reasonable democrats.

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LR: Invoice de Blasio lives the Puerto Rican Day Parade from 2022 in Midtown on 12 June 2022 in New York Metropolis; Democratic mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks within the New York Metropolis Democratic Mayoral Major Debate in NBC Studios on 4 June 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty photos)

The Blasio trivialized these fears and claimed that lots of Mamdani’s proposals – corresponding to creating free bus networks, increasing supermarkets and implementing rental management – have been tried in different cities.

Democratic mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani enters the stage at his major election social gathering on Wednesday 25 June 2025 in New York. (AP Picture/Heather Khalifa)

“These are usually not astonishing concepts. If he needs to burden the wealthy, he should get the approval of the legislative energy. They’ll or could not give it,” mentioned the Blasio, with the argument that the “wealthy” are able to get beneficiant tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s “massive, Stunning Invoice,” who was in the home final month.

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“I simply suppose there’s a lot exaggerated right here. And we’re not going to see folks leaving in massive numbers,” mentioned the Blasio. “They mentioned it will occur after I turned mayor. It did not occur. I simply do not buy it.”

The Blasio, who served as mayor of New York Metropolis between 2014 and 2022, argued that the success of Mamdani was because of his concentrate on “kitchen desk points” – one thing that Democrats paid the prize for forgetting within the 2024 election cycle.

Former mayor De Blasio protests the pronunciation of the Supreme Court docket with residents of New York Metropolis. (Peter Gerber/Fox Information Digital)

“Right here is somebody who talked about affordability all day lengthy, talked about lease. He spoke concerning the fundamental rules of life, meals, the entire thing that folks have bother making ends meet,” mentioned the Blasio.

The previous mayor predicted that the police wouldn’t be abused below a future Mamdani authorities.

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“I feel he lastly focuses laser on the type of issues that on a regular basis New Yorkers need within the ideological spectrum right here, about demography, as a result of this place is extremely costly and folks from the working class and center class battle to stay right here,” mentioned the Blasio.