Less than 48 hours after being elected, socialist Democratic New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is already in big trouble with Big Apple voters, according to Megyn Kelly.
During yesterday’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM, Kelly explained that working class voters in New York City — who Mamdani appealed to during his campaign — already view him as a “fake.”
Kelly criticized Mamdani on her show for his victory speech, in which he thanked immigrants and said he would be a champion for the working class.
“Last night in his speech, he thanked every foreign nation known to man — like the Senegalese whatever, hot dog salesman, the Nepalese cab driver. That’s who he sees as his constituency,” Kelly said.
“Meanwhile, he’s up there talking about how this is for the guys who’ve got the scars on their knuckles and the calluses on their hands. They voted against you, you cretin. They all voted against you. The working class can’t stand you. They’re not buying your bulls**t because the working class never buys bulls**t. They can’t afford to.”
“They actually have to struggle to put food on their tables and worry about their kids in school — and going to a school that’s safe and one that doesn’t have 45 different languages coming from the teachers because of the mandatory immigration laws we have now,” she added.
“They cannot worry about bulls**t. The working class did not vote for you. They know you’re a liar. And as I’ve been saying, a wolf in sheep’s clothing … The working class knows you’re a phony!”
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Mamdani’s post-election actions drew criticism from not only Kelly, but even CNN pundit Van Jones.
“I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that’s not the Mamdani that we’ve seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that,” Jones said on Tuesday.
“So I felt like it was a little bit of a character switch here, where the warm, open, embracing guy that’s close to working people was not on stage tonight. And there was some other voice on stage … I think he missed an opportunity to open himself up tonight. And I think that that will probably cost him going forward.”
Despite Mamdani’s message that he was a champion for the working class, exit polls indicated that New Yorkers making less than $30,000 supported rival Andrew Cuomo against Mamdani by a 48% to 42% margin, according to a CNN exit poll.
Fox Business host Charles Payne explained Wednesday that Mamdani’s base was not working class New Yorkers, but rather “champagne socialists” who believed they should make six-figures right out of college and are furious they have to work their way up the ladder.
“This was an election about pampered, the most elite, pampered, entitled folks out there, recent college grads who thought they would walk into a six-figure job when they moved to New York City, and they’re not. The poor people who are struggling to make a day-to-day overwhelmingly voted for Cuomo. That’s one of the ironies of this thing,” Payne said.