The National Republican Congressional Committee has mocked the establishment wing of the Democratic Party after far-left socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani crushed their centrist opposition and tipped the scales toward more extremism.
The NRCC sent flowers and a condolence card to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ Washington, D.C., office. According to a photo posted by Bill Melugin, the card read: “With heartfelt sympathy.”
NRCC spokesman Mike Marinella stated in a press release: “Three losses in one night is tough. We wanted so-called ‘Leader’ Jeffries to know our thoughts are with him, his candidates, and whatever remains of his influence in the Democrat Party.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ Republican counterpart, Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, criticized the results during a media briefing, noting that many Democratic voters booed Jeffries and chanted he was next. Johnson characterized the elected candidates as “socialists” and “Marxists,” saying: “These are socialists. These are Marxists in their ideology.”
Johnson added: “Hakeem Jeffries has a tall task ahead of him right now, he’s gotta go out and somehow make a credible pitch to Democrat establishment donors that [the socialist candidates] are a good national investment right now, that’s a tough one to make. He has just proven that he cannot even hold the line in his own back yard. How can he possibly defend against the Marxist march around the country and these other districts? This is not your father’s Democratic Party.”
Other figures, including Hunter Biden, have suggested Democrats must shift further left. Biden stated: “The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.”
President Donald Trump responded with a comment: “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a communist Country!”
