GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama added his voice to the refrain of bigots lamenting the latest election of Democrat Zohran Mamdani as New York Metropolis’s subsequent mayor.
“We’re in a different country, Steve. This is a different time. We just saw what happened in New York, we lost New York, it will be completely Muslim in three or four years—that’s what they want,” he stated Friday on former Trump aide and conspiracy theorist Steve Bannon’s podcast.
Tuberville’s assertion assumes that it’s someway a foul factor if there are numerous Muslim individuals in New York. To be clear, the USA is a nation the place the First Modification—which he swore to defend in Congress—protects freedom of faith and the place a minimum of 4.5 million Muslim individuals stay, greater than 724,000 of which stay within the state of New York.
This type of rhetoric is par for the course for Tuberville, who earlier this yr defended political smears in opposition to the assassinated Minnesota Democrats and celebrated federal brokers roughing up Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California.
Zohran Mamdani speaks after profitable New York Metropolis’s mayoral election on Nov. 4.
However Tuberville isn’t alone in his meltdown over Mamdani’s win.
Grocery store chain proprietor and billionaire John Catsimatidis, who threatened to maneuver his shops out of New York if Mamdani gained, stated after the race that he’s seeking to relocate to “friendly states” like Florida.
Equally, Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, who has confronted accusations of selling misogyny and sexual harassment, stated earlier than the election that he hated Mamdani and would transfer his enterprise operations out of New York if he gained.
And in an look on Fox Enterprise, “Shark Tank” panelist and millionaire Kevin O’Leary lamented that Mamdani hasn’t referred to as him again but to debate his deliberate coverage on actual property.
“I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what’s rhetoric and what’s policy. So far for me it’s been crickets,” O’Leary whined.
And unsurprisingly, conspiracy theorist and Trump adviser Laura Loomer stated that the win was an indication of “Islamic takeover of America,” whereas Rep. Randy High-quality of Florida stated that “New York City has fallen.”
However in the actual world, away from right-wing hate and fearmongering, Mamdani introduced the formation of his transition group and his plan to guard New Yorkers from ICE’s abusive ways.
How scary of him.
