News Nation host Chris Cuomo defended his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, after he lost the New York City mayoral primary race to socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, suggesting the Democratic Party is “dead” and has become “socialistic.”

He accused the party of supporting “extreme Islamism” and entering “MAGA mode.”

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“The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode,” Chris Cuomo said. “We are now on both sides in a period of extremism, the same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you are seeing an identical dynamic on the left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews for the right.”

Chris Cuomo said the Democratic Party, as he knows it, is “dead” because it is adopting “fundamentalism” just as he said the Republican Party has. Chris Cuomo said Mamdani’s victory is a “revolt” by voters against how the Democratic Party has operated for years.

“The outcome in this election wasn’t about affordability or about real change,” he said. “The winner is an open socialist, and the Democratic Party is now just that socialistic, but to be clear, this is a fictional fix for very real frustrations, an extreme suggestion of free everything that sounds great to those who feel cheated by the system because they are cheated by the system, but this is never going to happen.”

He said he wasn’t “surprised” by the race’s results, given the low turnout, but suggested that his brother was not an “establishment guy” and the “party was not loving that he ran.” Andrew Cuomo resigned four years ago as governor due to sexual harassment allegations.

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“The enthusiasm and turnout energy were overweighted for the more extreme candidates, as is often the case, and that’s one of the problems with our binary system and with our closed primaries,” Chris Cuomo said.

Mamdani won the city’s primary race with 43.5% of first-place votes compared to Cuomo’s 36.3%, according to the New York City Board of Elections.