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President Donald Trump told reporters that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has great potential as a mayor, a remark that has unsettled Republican operatives six weeks before the midterm elections.
The praise came after the two leaders met Monday at Gracie Mansion in New York City to discuss cost of living and housing issues, marking their third meeting since Mamdani won election last year as the first socialist and first Muslim mayor of the nation's most populous city.
The encounter contrasts sharply with Trump's recent rhetoric, where he warned of a communist takeover of the Democratic Party.
At the GOP's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas less than two weeks ago, Trump told Republicans that the Democrat establishment had been overthrown by radicals who call themselves Democrat socialists but are actually communists.
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