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President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States had lost “sovereignty” after New Yorkers elected democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor.
“We’ll take care of it,” Trump said without explaining what he meant, while claiming the country’s largest city would become communist.
During a recent address in Miami, following Mamdani’s decisive win, Trump remarked that the city is poised to become a haven for individuals escaping what he labeled as “communism in New York.”
“The decision facing all Americans could not be more clear: We have a choice between communism and common sense,” he said, also casting the choice as between an “economic nightmare” and an “economic miracle.”
The speech marked the first anniversary of Trump’s election victory against Democrat Kamala Harris.
“We rescued our economy, regained our liberty, and together we saved our country on that magnificent night 365 days ago,” Trump told his audience of supporters.
Mamdani’s mayoral race win came despite fierce attacks on his policies and Muslim heritage from business elites, conservative media commentators and Trump himself.
In response, Mamdani, celebrating his victory on Wednesday evening, declared, “If there’s a city capable of demonstrating how to overcome a nation misled by Donald Trump, it’s the very city that he once called home.”
Mamdani’s win, as well as the Democratic Party’s other victories in the governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey, suggested a shift in political mood as the country looks toward next year’s midterm elections, when control of Congress will be up for grabs.
In another significant win for Democrats, voters in California approved a proposition to redraw electoral districts in a bid to neutralise gerrymandering efforts ordered by Trump in other states.
Trump refused to take any blame for Wednesday’s results.
In a post on his Truth Social network, he cited anonymous “pollsters” suggesting the Republican defeats were due to the government shutdown and the fact that his own name wasn’t on the ballots.
