Republicans want to turn Mamdani into a bogeyman for the midterms. Trump just made that harder
President Trump recently characterized democratic socialists as a threat to America. However, he later publicly shook hands and smiled with a prominent democratic socialist. This interaction may complicate Republican efforts to frame democratic socialist candidates as dangerous figures during the midterm elections.
NEW YORK (AP) — Earlier in the month, President Donald Trump warned voters that democratic socialists — extreme, crazed, lunatics, he called them — were threatening to transform America into “a communist country.” This week, a smiling Trump patted on the shoulder one of the nation’s best known democratic socialists, shook his hand, and said...
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