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Trump calls democratic socialists ‘biggest threat to our nation there is’
Key takeaways
- “It’s too easy to get elected, giving everything away,” he continued. “It’s easy for them to get followers because they make promises they know they can’t keep.”
- Candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America have sprung up in primaries across the country, including in Los Angeles, Colorado, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
- Trump attacked D.C. mayor nominee Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, in a Truth Social post Sunday, calling her a “communist” and saying he will push back against her policies.
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He reupped those warnings after Mamdani-backed candidates won a trio of New York House primaries, telling the crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual policy conference in Washington on Friday that the Democratic Party “is in trouble because this isn’t stopping with New York.”
“It’s too easy to get elected, giving everything away,” he continued. “It’s easy for them to get followers because they make promises they know they can’t keep.”
Candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America have sprung up in primaries across the country, including in Los Angeles, Colorado, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
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