
Zohran Mamdani emerges as Republicans' government shutdown boogeyman
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has held up New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as Democrats' leading figure of the government shutdown.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
"You’ve seen their party get pulled further to the socialist left, and it started when [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.] beat Joe Crowley. And ever since then, Democrats have been afraid of that kind of emerging wing of their party," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox News Digital when asked why GOP leaders are invoking Mamdani so often. Follow on Twitter at @liz_elkind and send tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com
"Today, they are the center of the Democrat Party. They are running the Democrat Party, and you can see it, Mamdani is the one that they’re all scared of and they’re all listening to."

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