Name: All eyes on NYC mayoral race
Uploaded: 2025-11-04T19:27:15.857Z
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Description: Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York joins to discuss the New York City mayoral race.

Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York joins to discuss the New York City mayoral race.

New York

Congressman Mike Lawler expressed significant concerns about Zoran Mondani's candidacy in the New York City mayoral race, labeling Mondani's proposed policies as extreme and potentially harmful to the city. Lawler highlighted Mondani's positions on taxation, policing, and property rights, as well as his associations and past activism, which Lawler argued could negatively impact both the Jewish community and the broader city population.

In response, Mondani defended his campaign, stating it addresses the cost-of-living crisis for working-class New Yorkers and criticizing former President Trump's threats to withhold federal funding. Lawler countered by warning that Mondani's refusal to cooperate with federal law enforcement could jeopardize essential federal funds for New York City.

All eyes on NYC mayoral race

Congressman Mike Lawler. Congressman, great to have you on the show. I know you've spoken out about New York's mayoral race. You were talking about that, saying that Cuomo is really basically the lesser of two evils over Mondani. It's not even close. Tell us what's at stake here. Look, you have an avowed socialist in Zoran Mondani who engages in Marxist theory, who is anti-Semitic. The policies that he is proposing will be destructive to the city of New York, both from a cost-of-living standpoint and a quality of life. He wants to raise taxes by $9 billion. He wants to defund the police. He wants to shut down prisons, legalize prostitution, freeze the rent and seize control of private property and ban private property ownership. He wants government-run grocery stores and free busing. This is going to be an absolute catastrophe for New York and will lead to a mass exodus of a state that already leads the nation in out-migration because of Kathy Hochul's disastrous policies at the state level. So this is a big problem. And from my vantage point today, voters need to get out not on the basis of party, but on the basis of what is best for New York City. Zoran Mondani cannot be mayor. Let me ask you this. I know you represent New York's 17th congressional district, which has a very large Jewish population. What are your constituents saying to you? How do they feel about the possibility of Mondani becoming the next mayor of New York City? Well, I think they're outraged. And even some of my Democratic colleagues have come out against him because they know this is a disaster. And it's a disaster for our constituents across New York State, but especially the Jewish community. You have somebody who has refused to denounce, globalize the Intifada. When he was a college student, he organized students for justice for Palestine. He has led these protests in New York City over the last few years. He wants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu, the duly elected prime minister of our closest ally, the state of Israel, if he comes to New York City, but meanwhile has nothing to say about whether or not Hamas, a terrorist organization, should lay down its arms. And just a few weeks ago was raising money for UNRWA, an organization defunded by Congress because of its ties to Hamas and the October 7th terrorist attacks that resulted in the death of not just Israelis, but Americans and New Yorkers. And yet he was out there a few weeks ago raising money for UNRWA. So there's a real problem here, and he's not even hiding it. Palling around just two weeks ago with an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, it's really shameful that he's on the verge of becoming mayor. Yeah, so many people are concerned about it. President Trump, of course, is concerned about it, not only putting his support of Cuomo over Mondani and Sliwa, but he's also already put federal funding on the line. That's if Mondani becomes the mayor of New York City. But Mondani saying that Trump is threatened and he's going to fight. Take a listen to this. I think you can clearly see that Donald Trump is threatened by our campaign. He's threatened by it because like his, we've diagnosed the crisis in working class New Yorkers' lives, the cost of living. But unlike him, we're actually going to deliver on that. And that is a contrast that he can't bear to see. Because while he is spending $300 million remodeling a White House ballroom, the same amount of money that could provide SNAP benefits for 100,000 New Yorkers, he's trying to make it harder for Americans across the country to actually afford groceries. And this money that we're talking about, it's money that New York City is owed. It's not Donald Trump's to decide which city or state will get what money. This is the money that New Yorkers are owed, and this is the money that we're going to fight for. All right, Congressman Lawler, your reaction to that, and what's going to happen to the cost of living if he gets elected as mayor? Well, first of all, the reason 42 million Americans' SNAP benefits are in jeopardy right now is because Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, the two senators from New York, have voted 14 times to defund SNAP and WIC and shut down the federal government. So what Zoran Mondani should be doing is telling Gillibrand and Schumer to do their jobs and vote yes to open up the government. But the fact is, when you have somebody like Zoran saying that he's not going to cooperate with ICE, he's not going to cooperate with federal law enforcement, there are consequences to that. There are consequences to the decisions that New York City will make in which they don't uphold federal law. And that's what I, as a representative from New York, am trying to avoid. I'm trying to push back against this looming disaster because of New York's failed feckless leadership, from Kathy Hochul to now potentially Zoran Mondani, who refused to uphold the law, refused to cooperate with federal law enforcement agencies, and ultimately jeopardized the federal funds that New York is set to receive. All right, we got to leave it right there. Representative Mike Lawler, always great to be with you. Thank you so much for weighing in today. Thank you.

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