Trump Calls Socialist Candidates 'Hardcore Godless Communists' at Faith Conference

The comments followed Tuesday’s New York primaries, in which three Mamdani-endorsed candidates defeated sitting members of Congress. Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier won their races. Valdez defeated the handpicked successor of Rep.

Nydia Velazquez. Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat also lost. Mamdani, Valdez, and Avila Chevalier identify as socialists. Lander was previously a member of the Democratic Socialists of America but left the group in 2023.

Trump said the victories signal a spreading threat. “These are not social democrats, these are hardcore, godless communists,” Trump stated. ” Trump predicted the ideology would drive residents from New York and other states.

“Everybody will continue leaving New York and as this spreads throughout the country,” he said. “Very much like an uncontrollable form of cancer. The country itself will be taken down. ” He criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for failing to confront the trend.

“Democrats aren’t fighting back,” Trump said. ” John Spagnola, 75, of Clearwater, Florida, who attended a related Road to Majority Conference, said constant vigilance is required. “You can be undermined as a country if you’re not aware of what’s occurring, and Trump has been very aware,” Spagnola told the Washington Examiner.

Brian Montgomery, 37, who plans to run for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District in 2028, said the country was built on capitalism. “This utopian concept of communism and socialism is, it tears away the fabric of what made America great in the first place,” Montgomery told the Washington Examiner.