President Donald Trump on Thursday launched a fiery attack on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani at a pre-Fourth of July campaign-style rally in Iowa, accusing the Democrat nominee of harboring radical views and vowing to prevent what he called a Marxist takeover of the city, The Hill reported.

“This guy is a communist at the highest level, and he wants to destroy New York. I love New York, and we’re not going to let him do that,” Trump said in remarks ahead of the Independence Day holiday.

The comments came just days after Mamdani secured the Democrats’ nomination for mayor of New York. The 2025 race is already drawing national attention, with Trump, a native New Yorker, framing Mamdani as emblematic of what he calls a dangerous political shift to the far left in the Democratic Party.

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