The Washington Examiner’s Joe Concha warned that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is utilizing younger voters in New York City’s election, saying his supporters “don’t know what the Soviet Union is.”

Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist running for the mayor’s office, is campaigning for policies like freezing rent in New York City and government-run grocery stores. His campaign has drawn criticism from Fox News’s Martha MacCallum, who said she doesn’t believe he has ever visited a Soviet Union apartment building or how “ugly” they are.

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Concha noted that this lack of knowledge of socialism represents Mamdani’s voter base. 

“That’s the thing: a lot of the people that are voting for him, they’re young, they don’t know what the Soviet Union is! They were born after it was here, or Cuba, and that’s the thing. He’s counting on these folks not being informed about why these things didn’t work,” Concha said on Fox News’s Outnumbered.

Concha also said Mamdani could win the general election due to low voter turnout, saying only 23% of New York City’s 8 million voted in the last election.

Another factor aiding Mamdani’s potential victory is split opposition: Mayor Eric Adams is seeking reelection as an independent, and candidates like Curtis Sliwa, a Republican, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) are still running.

“So if he has low turnout, and he ends up going up against three other people who split the establishment vote, this thing is over,” Concha said.

Sliwa openly opposed dropping his bid and accused Adams and Cuomo of fighting “like children in a schoolyard” on X. He also claimed he is “the only one who can beat Mamdani and bring real change.”

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Adams said on Monday that Cuomo asked him to drop his reelection bid, which the mayor called the “highest level of arrogance.” He pointed to Cuomo’s loss to Mamdani “by 12 points” in the primary election and said “a fresh set of legs” needs to run against the Democratic nominee.

Last week, billionaire Bill Ackman backed Adams’s campaign, writing on X that he had met with both Adams and Cuomo.

Ackman, who endorsed President Donald Trump’s presidential bid last year, said Cuomo is “not up for the fight,” but Adams is “ready to go to battle.”