White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tore into New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his suggestion that President Donald Trump may be tied to Election Day bomb threats.
As Americans head to the polls across the country and in New York City for its mayoral elections on Tuesday, the 34-year-old democratic socialist appeared to link Trump to threats made against polling stations.
Asked about bomb threats across multiple polling locations in New Jersey while out doing some last-minute campaigning, Mamdani bizarrely shifted blame onto the president.
‘It’s incredibly concerning, and I think that it is an illustration of the attacks we’re seeing on our democracy,’ the Uganda-born candidate responded.
‘We have to understand this as part of the general approach the Trump administration has taken to trying to intimidate voters with baseless allegations of voter fraud as a means of trying to repress the voice of Americans across this country,’ he continued.
When pressed by reporters about Mamdani placing the bomb threat blame, at least in part, on Trump, Leavitt condemned the remarks as ‘completely irresponsible.’
‘I think this is just another example of how the Democrat Party unfortunately stands for nothing. All they stand against is President Donald Trump.’
The 28-year-old press secretary continued: ‘It’s quite sad to see that we have someone at the top of the ticket on an election day today saying such things about the president when he obviously had absolutely nothing to do with those threats.’
Several polling precincts in northern New Jersey were closed Tuesday due to credible threats, according to local authorities.
‘Law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email,’ in seven different counties, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin wrote in a statement on X.
Some of the locations were quickly cleared and reopened, according to authorities.
Trump, meanwhile, has spent the day launching salvos at Mamdani and other Democratic candidates on his Truth Social app.
‘Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!’ the 79-year-old Republican president wrote on social media.
The president has recommended that New York City voters back former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the race.
‘Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job,’ Trump wrote on Tuesday.
The ex-governor resigned in disgrace in 2022 after being accused of sexual harassment. Cuomo has also been dogged by his terrible decision to mix COVID-positive patients in New York nursing homes during the pandemic.
Both instances have led to him trailing in the polls by double digits.
Still, if Mamdani does win, which it seems likely, Trump is threatening to pull federal funds from the city.
‘If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!’