The Trish Regan Show - NYC Mayoral Race BACKFIRES on Dems— Avowed Socialist Takes over Party!

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

The NYC mayoral race just blew up in the Democrats’ faces as a self-proclaimed socialist Takes over their party—leaving businesses and voters in panic. This is a CLIP from the LIVE Trish Regan Show episode 165 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York mayoral race, my goodness, okay? Like, I told you this was going to happen. I was watching Polly Market, which is a great indicator, because, again, you're talking real money on the line, right? So it does better than the polls. And we were seeing that this Mamdami guy, who maybe you had never heard of up until today, was pulling ahead.

This is the guy that wants to basically put New York grocery stores out of business because he's going to, have the state run them all, which I'm going to just tell you in the here and now, it's just going to be funny. We can talk about it, but it's messed up. Here's this guy. Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs and milk has skyrocketed. Some stores are even using dynamic pricing, jacking up the cost over the course of a day, depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't need to be this way. I'm Zahran Mandani, and as mayor, I will create a network of city-owned grocery stores.

It's like a public option for produce. We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price gouging. These stores will operate without a profit motive or having to pay property taxes or rent and will pass on those savings to you. Okay.

Yeah, savings. Again, my colleague at 76 Research and I were just talking about this this morning, and he actually used to cover grocery stores for quite a while, you know, an interesting sector to invest in. And what has been tremendous, that you've seen in the grocery industry is just all these massive technological changes and shifts

and advances. And it's actually pretty sophisticated technology that I'm sorry, the government is not going to be able to do, okay? I'm sorry. Mbani, you're just not going to be able to pull that one off. We are looking forward, though, to seeing you try. He also wants to put a 2% income tax hike on anybody making more than a million dollars, which believe it in New York City, believe it or not, is a lot of people, right? Because the cost of living is so darn high because you can't send your kids to public school? I mean, it's a mess to live in New York City. I am so thankful I am out of New York City. I literally, like every day, the honeymoon has not worn off. I live there for a lot of years and I saw it through a lot of changes. I'll tell you, Giuliani was the best thing that ever

happened to that city. And I'm going to be nonpartisan here and tell you that Mike Bloomberg continued that tradition, okay? And then you got socialist de Blasio in the door who was a disaster followed by Eric Adams, who's trying to do things, but he's kind of, you know, limited. And then now you get out of this guy? Are you kidding me? You're going to have a socialist that is going to drive every corporation out of New York City. That's why those real estate investment trusts are plunging. You know what I'd be doing?

I'd be investing in Florida real estate in real estate around New York City because there is going to be a mass exodus. It's already beginning. He wants corporate taxes going from 7.25 to what they see in New Jersey in 11.5. tax. Companies will just leave. How are you going to pay for all those things I'd like to know? This came up this morning on Fox and Friends and Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, who's growing on me. I got to tell you. He's like, this guy is a snake oil salesman. That was his comment. I want you to see it. Mr. Mayor, it's not just defund the police. This candidate, Democratic socialist. He wants to freeze the rent. He wants city rent grocery stores, social workers, to replace the police because that's going to help.

He wants $60 billion of debt fund for affordable housing. He wants three buses, no cost for child care, baby baskets for newborn, and a $30 minimum wage. How can someone vote for this? He says it. He just snake oil salesman. He would stay and do anything to get elected. Think about this more moment.

He wants to raise 1%. He wants to raise tax on 1% of New York's high income earnings. as a man you don't have the authority to do that. You know who has the authority to do that? An assemblyman, which he is. He wants to do free buses. He could have done it at assemblymen. He doesn't understand the power of government

and how you must make sure you improve your economy, raise the standard of living. This is what we've done in the city. I'm looking forward to being on the campaign trail and showing New York is we can't go backwards. And New York is never surrender or quit. I'm never going to quit for the city now. That is so interesting.

You're in the position. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Okay, so this is backfiring big time on the Democrats. Because people are like, oh, okay, now you're just taking it a little bit too far. You know what's interesting? This guy, very, very, like, woke educated. He went to Bank Street School, which is a super expensive school, probably 65K a year to go to Bank

Street School. on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, very liberal place. He is clearly a liberal guy young, 33 years old. I believe he just became a U.S. citizen seven years ago. He's kind of sort of questioned for who he is, like fundamentally who he is, because he doesn't even seem to speak with the same accent depending on where he is in all seriousness. Like he's got different accents at different times.

This came up in actually a local news report on NBC, because the reporter's like, what is I'm going to be like, who are you? Which accent is actually really yours? Because when he was promoting some music video that he made with his mom and Disney, he spoke with a totally different accent than when he's speaking on the campaign trail. So what's this about? I want you to hear this one because I'm like, this guy, this guy's kind of frightening. Really?

I mean, like, the accents alone will throw you because you're like, who is he? And then on top of that, he's a total communist who wants to, have free housing for everyone, tax everyone. This is how he's going to pay for it, right? Reform the grocery stores. I mean, he's really out there. They've tried this, by the way. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, it didn't work out so well.

It's been tried in Cuba. It didn't work out so well. How about communist Cambodia or Vietnam or, you go around the world. You take your pig. We'll go back to the USSR. It does not work. Okay? Here he is.

Because I think the New Yorkers, more than they hate a politician they disagree with, they hate a politician they can't trust. On the subject of trust, you've adopted different speaking accents in different scenarios. But they go to their local bodega. Is there one that's real and one that's affected? What I would say is, as any immigrant knows, having been born in Kampala, Uganda and then raised in South Africa, and moving here when I'm seven years old, is there different parts of my life? Worldwide tour is a worldwide tour.

Mamdani was talking about a worldwide press tour, back when he was a rapper. Nepotism and hard work goes a long way. in New York City. This is how I speak. Okay, so Democrats have themselves a little bit of a problem. Like, it's one thing to be liberal. It's another thing to be a complete socialist who wants to drive all the revenue out of New York City. What are you going to do? Okay, you're going to defund the police. Well, that's good because you're not going to have any money because all the corporations are going to leave and any individual that can is going to get

out. So what are you going to be left with? Kind of a, I don't know, like a mini Venezuela? That's not good, okay? That is not what you want. But he had all kinds of crazy support. It was very interesting. It was actually a lot of white educated people as well as Asian people, youth, educated youth, the woke people, right?

The hipsters in Brooklyn that actually went for this guy. It was not sort of middle class working New Yorkers. You didn't have a large contingency of the African-American population or the Hispanic population voting for him. You had sort of this younger, I don't know, sex in the city watching crowds. Cynthia Nixon was one of his biggest supporters.

She is an actress, best known for her days on sex in the city, quite liberal. You know, I hope she's willing to turn over all her money to Memdami for those grocery stores because, you know, she's going to have to pay up. Here we go. In this election day, I'm on my way to vote. I don't know that I have ever been more excited to vote for anyone than I am to vote for Saranamandani. I've got my button. I've got my don't rank Cuomo t-shirt that I have been given because I'm going to a polling site.

Goran 1, Brad 2, Adrian 3, Stringer 4, Michael Blake, 5. And whatever you do, don't rank Cuomo. Vote for Jumani, vote for Justin Brannon. We have a chance to make sure that our corrupt Trump donor supported, disgraced former governor is not elected mayor of New York, and we have a chance, oh, we're in the polling site now, we have a chance to elect Zoran, to have fast-free buses, to have rent-stabilized apartments with the rent frozen.

We have subsidized grocery stores. and we have free child care from ages six months to five years. We have a guy who will stand up to Trump, and we will have a guy who creates a city for all of us. Make sure you vote today and don't rank Cuomo. Okay, so she was celebrating at the party last night. Wow. The way this election works, you see, you have to get more than 50% of the vote,

and what happens is you pick like your first choice, second choice, third choice, et cetera. So when she was saying don't vote Cuomo, her point was don't put him anywhere, in your choices whatsoever. So because Brad Lander had that big moment, remember when he got cuffed the other day? He's the city controller. He was running for mayor. This actually kind of gave him the boost. He was recommending basically, you know, if you're, don't, it's don't vote for Cuomo as well. So vote for Mamdami if I'm not, you know, if I don't get it. So a lot of times he was the second pick on the list. And so Mamdami was able to pick up all of his votes. This is the guy. Remember, he made the big stink.

And you almost wonder if it was somewhat deliberate. I mean, it was quite a stunt to have pulled, let's be honest, just days before the election because nobody had ever heard of him. And so you wonder if some people that maybe were thinking Cuomo went for him and, you know, if this kind of contributed to a shakeup in the race. But what had happened was once they were going to be done with their. their first choice pick, they would have moved on to Mamdami. And so this guy, if he was your first choice, chances are,

Mamdami was the second. And so Cuomo came out and announced that he was bowing out of the race last night. This is like really and truly pretty shocking, guys. It's bad news for the Democrat Party. It's bad news for the Democrat establishment. But you know what? I'm sitting back and saying, heck, you know what? They deserve it.

They really do deserve it because, you know, they got here for a reason. Someone's commenting, I see, on his. accent and saying, no, you know, like you can have a different accent. If you speak a lot of languages, you can have a different accent. Well, I'm going to tell you, I speak a lot of languages. I speak Italian. I speak Spanish. I was actually decent at German at one point in my life earlier in my career. Again, I have a background as a singer, so you need to know all these languages. I can sound pretty fluent in French, though I'm not. And here's the reality. No, do you hear me speaking with an accent? No. Okay. Like, you know, you have a Spanish. I'm

I can speak Spanish with a Spanish action, okay, from Barcelona, Spainia, because I speak all these languages, but I have my own accent in each of these languages that is very particular to me because I know who the heck I am. Thank you very much. And clearly, this guy does not. He really, really, really does not. And now the Democrats are sitting there saying, what are we going to do? Right. We've got an AOC disaster.

We've got a Jasmine Crockett disaster. We've got a communist disaster. in New York City. And this is bad, bad news for our party. And a lot of people know it's bad news. Diller knows it's bad news. Barry Diller's pulling his money. Billionaire Mike Bloomberg.

He's pretty darn mad. They're all distancing themselves. They got to remake this thing. The Democrat Party is like, they're struggling. They go, look at this. $15 million is all they got in the bank. You know, it's not a lot for a party that needs to try and run some kind of opposition against Donald Trump.

And then you look at the Republican Party with 72 million and more on the way. And so this is going to be bad. But again, you know, we saw Brad Lander getting cuffed there, which is going to bring me to another story.