An estimated 550,000 registered Republican voters are under threat from a new Soros Foundation connection, linking former President Barack Obama’s top aides to radical socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.
Money is flowing into the socialists campaign coffers from the billionaire liberal and his powerful friends.
Despite taking Soros’ money, Mamdani has caused controversy by declaring that billionaires shouldn’t exist — and said taxes should be allocated along racial lines.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly.” He said he ll increase property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.
Financial records show that Soros’ Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least nine other far left-wing groups whose endorsements and voter turnout efforts helped Mamdani defeat former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary.
Since 2016, the Working Families Party has received $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc. The socialist organization helped secure Mamdani the Democratic nomination by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo.
An additional $13,944,005 went to nine nonprofits and their fundraising entities that backed Mamdani’s campaign. Make The Road Action received $3,515,000, Community Voices Heard got $2,635,000, Move On received $2.3 million, and the antisemitic group Jewish Voice for Peace Action took in $650,000, according to foundation records.
All of these groups supported both Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and what critics call his Marxist agenda, which includes advocating for criminal migrants and condemning Israel.
Mayor Eric Adams, who lost the Democratic primary and is now seeking re-election as an independent, criticized Mamdani’s position. “While Zohran Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth, the truth is he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the very nonprofit network he pretends to stand apart from,” Adams told The Post. “You can’t have it both ways. We need leadership that brings people together — not politicians who demonize success while quietly cashing in on it.”
Adams, who was born into poverty 64 years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, called himself an example of the “American Dream” and now runs what he calls the “greatest city in the world.”
“The idea that billionaires or successful people shouldn’t exist isn’t just extreme — it’s un-American,” Adams added.
Behind the scenes, Patrick Gaspard has played a key role guiding Mamdani’s campaign. Gaspard served as president of Soros’ Open Society Foundations from 2017 to 2020, making millions in that role. He currently leads the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank heavily funded by Soros.
Gaspard, a longtime ally of far-left former Mayor Bill de Blasio who also served as a top aide to former President Barack Obama, has been informally advising Mamdani and was present at his victory party in June. The connection has brought Obama world operatives into Mamdani’s orbit.
Obama called Mamdani after his primary victory, offering advice about governing and giving constituents optimism during difficult times. Gaspard also introduced Obama campaign architect David Axelrod to Mamdani when Axelrod visited the campaign headquarters in Manhattan.
“What I found when I went over to that office was a familiar spirit that I hadn’t seen in a while of just determined, upbeat idealism,” Axelrod told the New York Times. “You may not agree with every answer he’s giving, or every idea he has, but he’s certainly asking the right questions, which is how do we make the country work for working people?”
Former Obama advisors Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer, hosts of the “Pod Save America” podcast, have also been in contact with top Mamdani advisors and closely influencing the race. The Mamdani campaign has paid millions to a media strategist with ties to Obama world through Axelrod and David Plouffe.
Douglas Kellogg, state projects director for Americans for Tax Reform, said Soros’ influence shouldn’t surprise anyone.
“George Soros is like a comic-book villain, James Bond villain who’s funding a movement designed to undermine individual freedom and liberty across the globe,” Kellogg said. “And he’s been doing it for years, and he’s continues to do it and finds new effective faces to put in front on it. If communism and socialism was popular, he wouldn’t have to spend so much money and take so much time to try to achieve it.”
Kellogg predicted a mass exodus of “productive, law-abiding citizens who make New York great,” like the 550,000 registered Republicans in the city, if Mamdani becomes mayor and warned that “taxpayers and businesses have a lot to lose.”
Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa accused Mamdani of hypocrisy.
“Mamdani doesn’t want to get rid of billionaires. He only wants to destroy the ones who don’t bankroll his radical agenda,” Sliwa said. “If you’re George Soros or part of the far-left donor class, you get a free pass and a seat at the table. Mamdani will drive out everyone else and turn New York into a city run by untouchables, where the Soros machine calls the shots.”
Gaspard has been a vocal defender of Soros, praising him earlier this year when then-President Joe Biden announced Soros would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“His accomplishments, in the face of distortions and threats from extremists, will be lauded well into the future,” Gaspard said.
John Catsimatidis, who owns the popular Gristedes supermarket chain, said Mamdani should be more transparent about his Soros connections.
“I think America is the land of the free, and if it’s billionaires . . . who are providing jobs, what is wrong with that?” Catsimatidis asked.
The grocery store owner has clashed with Mamdani over the Democratic Socialist’s pledge to establish city-run grocery stores. Catsimatidis previously threatened to sell his stores if Mamdani wins, but now says he would more likely “reduce operations.”