Morning Wire - Socialist Shockwave: How Mamdani Shook New York Politics

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s far-left mayoral victory in New York could signal a takeover of the Democratic Party—and a warning for November. Political analyst and native New Yorker Ryan Girdusky breaks it all down. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.   - - -   Today's Sponsors:   EarnIn - Type in "Morning Wire" under PODCAST when you sign up for EarnIn today by downloading in the Google Play or Apple App Store.   Jeremy's Razors - Get 25% off Jeremy’s Razors for a limited time: https://www.jeremysrazors.com/?utm_campaign=Independence&utm_content=20250624&utm_source=pod   - - -   Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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enlarge our clientele to the world entire. Trouvee de petitions like our own.com. The Democratic Party finds itself even further divided following a shock primary in New York City last week

that saw a radical socialist candidate wipe the floor with the establishment frontrunner. Will the party fully embrace its far left wing? as embodied by Zoran Mom Doni or attempt to reverse course. In this episode, we sit down with

Ryan Gurdoski, host of the It's a Numbers Game podcast to discuss what the New York election says about the state of the Democratic Party and where it goes from here. I'm Daily Wire executive editor, John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. It's Thursday, July 3rd,

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See cash out user agreements for details. Service not available in all states. Joining us now to discuss the state of the Democratic Party following the recent bombshell primary in New York is Ryan Gurdeski, host of the It's a Numbers Game podcast. Ryan, thanks for coming on. Thank you for having me. Now, we've begun to see some fallout among Democrats over Mamdani's win last week. Some are touting him as the model for how they should run. Others say he could be leading the party off the cliff. Is his brand of politics the future of the party? So I think we have to just take a step back and look at New York City, right? Because it's very specific to New York.

He didn't get a majority, right? So I don't know if in a half a half. head-to-head combat, he could have one if there was one person. And he was challenging a very problematic figure being Andrew Cuomo, who had to resign in disgrace, and he was not considered an ally of progressives, and a lot of other people didn't like him because of the COVID response. Had he faced a woman named like Catherine Garcia, I don't know if he would have had the same level of traction. But if you look at New York, in the last year, from 24, February 2024 to February 2025. Republicans have registered more new voters than Democrats in three of New York's five boroughs. In Staten Island, the Bronx, and Queens, there is an increasing number of people who live without

of like a five-mile radius or eight-mile radius of Manhattan who are aligned themselves increasing with the Republican Party. You know, Donald Trump got over 35% in Queens County. He got 35% to citywide. He got close to 25% in the Bronx. These are astronomical numbers for a Republican, especially a Republican, that had no support as far as a ground game or commercials or anything. It is completely organic and it is really happening. So who then in the two boroughs that were Democrats are registering more new voters than Republicans, who are still registering Democrats? It's people who see AOC, who have seen Bernie Sanders, who have seen these kinds of identity-based neo-Marxist and saying, this is my kind of party.

So the party has changed on its face because the amount of people that were there, even four years ago, let alone eight years ago, that could outnumber far-left progressives have either moved, died, or become independent Republican. And the new registered voters outnumber them. That is the recipe for a lot of parts of our country. Is it everywhere? I don't know. There's parts of New Mexico. New Mexico is all Democrats. There's parts of Nevada.

There's other parts where a centrist can win. lots of parts of Illinois, but in these urban areas where organization, especially around high propensity voting, college educated, mostly white, Uber progressives, when they can co-less, they vote like it is their religion, mostly because they don't have one. And also these districts, these areas are become sponges. If you have purple hair and 36 genders and you don't know if you're a boy or a girl, why would you stay in Long Island for? Why would you stay in Tennessee?

Why would you stay in Ohio? You come to New York. You come to Chicago. You come to Boston. You come to places with these like-minded people who all look like creatures of the night together. That is where these places may elect more of those kinds of people. It's not everywhere, but where these people are surging in population, you are seeing it. And then one other point where you're seeing high densities of ethnic minorities who, it's not like you have,

a black neighbor or an Asian neighbor and they, we are all basically alike because you have all assimilated into one culture. When it's 99% Arab, 99% Chinese, whatever the case is, that demands ethnic representation of proportional ethnic representation. So because we have mass immigration still even under Trump, but especially under Biden, more demographics as they become more minorities as they become more politically active will demand elected officials cater to them. Now, that could be a good thing in some capacity, but when you're doing it solely based on left-wing, identitarian politics, you will almost surely get people who are more like Ilhan Omar and AOC and Corey Bush and all the rest of them. That's where you're likely to see

that growth from. What did we learn in New York about the demographics within the Democratic Party that are most heavily endorsing this more radical branch of it? Certainly people who are college-educated millennials and gen Ziers. That is definitely a very large part of the base. It is often correlated that it is among white college-educated liberals, and that's

definitely true for a lot of part of them. A big part of it is also black women. Black women are increasingly identity-driven far-left radicals. Look at the cast of MSNBC. None of them can read, and it doesn't matter because they're driving on identity basis and everything is about how to drive

that it has to be for a woman, has to be for a black woman over and over and over and over and over and over and over and all the causes and all the cancer society are because of whiteness. Black women are a major part of that and certain immigrant groups, certain recent immigrant groups. You know, we paint the pan of like just saying the words like Hispanic or whatever, but within the microcosm of Hispanic neighborhoods, we've seen Puerto Ricans are much more susceptible to socialist by candidates than Venezuelans or Dominicans. So there are certain

pockets within different ethnicity groups that have been more appealing to democratic socialism. The three groups that are the most prone to not only supporting Democrats, supporting Democratic socialists would be white progressives, black women,

and Southeast Asian immigrants. Specifically, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, those communities are very far left, very hard left. And the children of those people usually assimilate very well because they all go to college, but they assimilate to, you know, part of my French, but shit lib behavior. And that is where they're going to. A former president Bill Clinton, who is a traditional moderate Democrat, he congratulated Mondani

and said he hopes he'll bring New Yorkers together and shape a stronger, fairer future, etc. Are we seeing more endorsements like this for this radical wing, or are there more, you know, sort of rejections of him publicly? Bill Clinton also said his last public appearance for a campaign thing was going to be the Kamala Harris convention. So I don't know who wrote this, maybe some assistant did. I don't know if Bill Clinton's on Twitter very much at almost 80 years old. If you look at who has made announcement, Chuck Schumer and Hakeempery did not do a big giant hug. The Democrats out on Long Island openly said this was a mistake. Look at it.

the center powers of democratic politics in the United States. They're all urban. Chuck Schumer lives in New York City. Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi, who represented in San Francisco. It's areas like Baltimore. It's area of the senator who's now retiring. Dick Durbin lived in Chicago.

They're all going to be primary out of this machine. And there used to be parameters that kept them in power, the black vote, unions, senior citizens, certain Jewish coalitions. are becoming, one, less powerful and two less organized.

And the population centers, as I said before, that are sponging together the most progressive activists who would otherwise live in a place like Kentucky are, their numbers are being dwindled. And they thought that it was manageable. But if the mayor of New York City is Amandani, Chuck Schumer is looking at the end of his political career, Hakeem Jeffries is looking at being challenged, The governor is looking at being challenged. They're all sitting there since saying, you know, it's like the movie Gremlin. When they look cute, when there's just one of them, but when they're in water and eating at night, and there's thousands of them and they're demonic, you have a real issue on your hands. And they are an unquenchable, they have an unquenchable appetite for socialism.

There's no end point in their mind. So I think that they're genuinely worried. And I think that there would, there's definitely democratic politicians and political operatives and donors behind the scenes as of right now saying, how do we either get Cuomo or Eric Adams to run the general and how do we stop this guy now? So what happens next as it relates to the general election? What's going to happen with, say, Adams and Cuomo? So Cuomo is on the ballot in the general. So is Eric Adams. If either one of them announced that they are moving out of state, they can give up their line.

Same thing with Curtis Lewa. And the party then can nominate somebody else. Although because Adams and Cuomo both running as independence, there is no party to take over. Slewa would have to sit there and move out of state for that to happen. Eric Adams allegedly lives out of state already. Let's look at a see if any of them sit there and say I'm bowing out of this. I'm going to go to my place in Florida or New Jersey for a while.

Let's see what money starts rolling in on the stop Zendani thing. I mean, the stop Mendani movement. And let's see if there's any Democratic power players, not elected officials, but unions, organizers, religious people, especially within the Black church or the Hispanic church, that are saying, let's stop this train right now. And they start organizing around it. Once you see a few dominoes fall, they will all fall together, the people who are making these phone calls behind the scenes. I will say they're not worried about Bill Clinton. They're worried about the future, not the past. Final question.

We recently talked to Brent Buchanan from Signal polling. He gave us a sense of approval ratings for Democrats. They're not good, historically bad. There's been a lot of talk about whether or not this is sort of the death throes of the Democratic Party. Maybe that's overstated. What do you think we're witnessing here right now? Is this the rebirth, rebranding of a party or the death of a party? Well, I think it's absolutely the splintering of a party, and it bodes for the 2026 midterm elections.

Andrew Cuomo won more assembly districts. There are 65 assembly districts in New York City. The ultra-progressive, mostly white areas that surround Manhattan gave Mandani 30% of his votes. It's only 10 assembly districts. There's 65. So 14% of the population gave 33% of the vote total to Mendon. Those people who vote frequently, vote often, vote all the time. They are not the majority of this country in any way, but they vote the most frequently. And going into the 2026 midterms, the working class, the less college educated, the less active, who are increasingly Republican, are not as energized to vote. It's just not part of them, and that's the way they've always been. If I was a Republican right now, they had unlimited monies.

What they should be doing right now is organizing to somehow figure out how to get, non-college educated, no high school degree people out to vote early. It is the most essential thing. It's the only way to counter this very active, very strong minority of the population, but a majority of the voting base. And that is what we're going to see around the entire Democratic Party is how they can sit there and cater to them. What we're seeing in the Democratic Party is kind of like the BLM riots, where they would put signs in front of their stores saying don't smash the store,

black female business owner. one by one all these politicians will say don't smash this politician i salute you know lenin whatever the cases that's going to be much of what we say well as we said a really bombshell primary last week that's really opened a lot of people's eyes about the direction of the democratic party thanks so much for coming on right thank you so much that was ryan gerdusky and this has been a special edition of morning wire if your razor company celebrates every country except america it's time to switch to jeremy's razors five stainless steel blades that destroyed double and corporate pandering, a precision trimmer for clean lines and tight corners, and a lubricating

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