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The ad goes on to warn Americans of what’s coming if Democrats stay in power:
“The new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani built his movement on defunding the police and abolishing ICE. Now the socialists are celebrating. They call it progress. We call it chaos. Bureaucrats instead of doctors. Social workers instead of cops.”
The 30-second ad concludes with a chilling image of Mamdani alongside House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, followed by this closing line:
“This is the future House Democrats want, and your city could be next. Stop socialism. Stop Democrats.”
The campaign takes direct aim at 29 Democrat-held House seats that Republicans consider vulnerable ahead of next year’s midterms. Those include Representatives Josh Harder and Derek Tran in California, Jared Golden in Maine, Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, and Josh Riley in New York, and Eugene Vindman in Virginia.
But the GOP’s strategy doesn’t stop there. The NRCC is also going on offense in 20 Republican-held districts that Democrats are expected to target — including Juan Ciscomani in Arizona, Young Kim in California, Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey, Mike Lawler in New York, and Scott Perry in Pennsylvania.
With Republicans clinging to a 220–215 House majority, the stakes couldn’t be higher. And GOP strategists believe that tying Democrats to Mamdani’s radical socialist agenda could be the key to holding — or even expanding — their majority.
For years, the GOP successfully used Nancy Pelosi as the face of the far-left, turning her into a political liability for Democrats nationwide. That same playbook is now being rewritten — with Mamdani as the new poster boy for socialism in America.
Internal NRCC polling from July found Mamdani’s name recognition among voters in 46 battleground districts was already 81%, just five points behind Jeffries. Even more damaging for Democrats, Mamdani carried a 16-point net negative favorability rating, with only 25% viewing him favorably and 41% unfavorably.
“Democrats are no longer running from the socialist label; they are embracing this toxic agenda, providing Republicans a tremendous opportunity to draw a contrast and go on offense,” an NRCC memo stated.
Mamdani campaigned on policies that sound straight out of a Marxist wish list: freezing rent for more than one million apartments, eliminating bus fares citywide (at a cost of $600–800 million per year), funding universal childcare, and creating government-run grocery stores costing taxpayers another $140 million annually.
His plan to fund these programs? Jacking up taxes on corporations and on New Yorkers earning over $1 million per year — a move critics say will send businesses fleeing from the city.
Even some Democrats are already distancing themselves from Mamdani’s radical ideas. Rep. Laura Gillen, one of the Democrats targeted in the NRCC’s new ad blitz, skipped a Wednesday breakfast meeting with Mamdani in Washington, D.C., saying after his primary win that he was “too extreme to lead New York City.”
Republicans are confident that by making Mamdani the “new face of the Democrat Party,” they can paint a clear contrast heading into 2026. The GOP believes the far-left agenda on display in New York City will not play well in the rest of America.
After all, voters outside the deep-blue enclaves of Manhattan aren’t exactly clamoring for socialism, government-run grocery stores, or rent freezes.
For the GOP, Mamdani’s win may have handed them the perfect weapon — a new national symbol of what they call “Democrats’ dangerous march toward socialism.”
And if Republicans have their way, every voter in America will soon know his name.
