Republican New York City Council candidate Alina Bonsell told Newsmax on Monday that New York City voters need to elect Republicans who can be a “firewall” against democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Bonsell told Newsmax’s “National Report” that “we have overall only six Republicans in office of the 51 council members. Every seat is up for reelection this November. This election is so important because this is the only firewall that you have against Mamdani.”

She said she opposes many of the platform promises made by Mamdani, projected to be the winner of the New York Democrat primary for the mayor’s position.

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