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Republicans Retire Pelosi as a Villain, and Turn to Mamdani

Searching for another liberal boogeyman, Republicans have zeroed in on Zohran Mamdani. Whether their strategy will work in the midterms is less clear.

© New York Times photographs by Andri Tambunan and Vincent Alban

Republicans hope to turn Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, into the next national-level villain after Nancy Pelosi. They think the 34-year-old democratic socialist vividly illustrates their argument that the Democratic Party has swung hard to the left.
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