Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-.N.Y, , who will be challenging Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in 2026, said Wednesday that Hochul is “incapable” of holding hardline progressive New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in check.

“Kathy Hochul is incapable of providing a check on this radical Communist Antisemite who will destroy our great city just like she destroyed our great state,” Stefanik wrote in a post on X, referring to Mamdani, a New York state assemblyman, anti-Israel activist and member of the Democrat Socialists of America who won the city’s Democrat primary last week.

In the post, Stefanik included a screen shot of a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump, who wrote Wednesday: “As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York. Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it ‘Hot’ and ‘Great’ again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!”

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