Chris Cuomo Declares Democratic Party ‘Dead’ After Brother Loses NYC Mayoral Primary: ‘Tacitly Supporting Extreme Islamism’
NewsNation host Chris Cuomo declared the Democratic Party is “dead” after his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, lost the New York City Democratic mayoral primary to “an open socialist.”
Reacting to his brother’s defeat to 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani – a democratic socialist – Cuomo told viewers on his NewsNation show Wednesday, “Thank you very much for all the kind words about my brother. I didn’t cover the mayoral election or even comment on it here at NewsNation for obvious reasons, and my feelings about my brother and what he should do now, those are personal, not professional. So suffice to say, I love and support my brother and I’m not worried about him.”
He continued:
I get why many of you were surprised by the Democratic primary results in New York City. I was not. Two reasons. One is that it was a low turnout race that people did not think could go the way it did. The enthusiasm and turnout energy were overweighted for the more extreme candidates, as is often the case, and that’s one of the problems with our binary system and with our closed primaries. And there were several radical choices in the mix, not to mention, and contrary to what was sold by his opponents, Andrew’s no establishment guy and the party was not loving that he ran, but that’s his case to make, okay?
The second reason I wasn’t surprised is actually worth talking about here because it affects the entire nation. The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode. We are now, on both sides, in a period of extremism. The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you’re seeing an identical dynamic on the left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews. For the right, it’s migrants. For the left, it’s Jews. It’s fundamentalist Christians dominating the right. It’s fundamentalist Islamists making headway on the left. I know that doesn’t sound like Democrats, but that party is dead. What it will be reborn as, we’ll see.
Cuomo concluded, “What we’re seeing now is that there are many in America who are adopting and adapting to fundamentalism. The outcome in this election wasn’t about affordability or about real change. The winner is an open socialist and the Democratic Party is now just that: socialistic. But be clear, this is a fictional fix for very real frustrations.”
On Tuesday, the former CNN host also tore into Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – one of the most prominent Democrats to endorse Mamdani – calling her a “deranged form of Democrat” and accusing her of “killing” the party.
Watch above via NewsNation.
