Chris Cuomo Torches Democrats After Brother’s Defeat to Socialist Mamdani: ‘That Party Is Dead’
Chris Cuomo didn’t hold back Wednesday night after his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, was defeated by open socialist Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary. The former CNN anchor unloaded on what he called a “dead” Democratic Party now consumed by extremism and radical ideologies.
On his NewsNation show, Cuomo said he refrained from covering the race out of personal loyalty. “I love and support my brother, and I’m not worried about him,” he said, before shifting focus to what he sees as the bigger threat — the state of the Democratic Party itself.
“This wasn’t a surprise to me,” Cuomo admitted, noting that low turnout and mobilized far-left activists tipped the race toward Mamdani. “The enthusiasm and turnout energy were overweighted for the more extreme candidates, as is often the case,” he said. “And that’s one of the problems with our binary system and closed primaries.”
Cuomo then unleashed on the Democratic Party, accusing it of falling into the same extremist patterns it often criticizes on the Right.
“The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode,” he said. “We are now, on both sides, in a period of extremism. The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you’re seeing an identical dynamic on the Left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.”
Cuomo compared the influence of fundamentalist Christians on the Right with rising radical Islamist sympathies on the Left. “That party is dead. What it will be reborn as, we’ll see,” he said grimly.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-proclaimed socialist and state assemblyman from Queens, campaigned on a platform of police defunding, rent freezes, city-run grocery stores, tax hikes, and over $60 million in taxpayer-funded transgender procedures — including for minors.
Mamdani also refused to condemn the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, calling instead for “ending the occupation.” He has expressed support for anti-Israel rhetoric and even released a rap song praising Hamas financiers.
“The winner is an open socialist, and the Democratic Party is now just that: socialistic,” Cuomo concluded. “But be clear, this is a fictional fix for very real frustrations.”
There is no more Democratic party. There is no Republican party. Here is the truth: pic.twitter.com/7b8nTV5Hhp
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 26, 2025
Andrew Cuomo has not ruled out a third-party run under his “Fight and Deliver” banner, potentially setting up a five-way race that includes Mamdani, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams (running as an independent), Republican Curtis Sliwa, and former federal prosecutor Jim Walden.
In the aftermath of his brother’s loss, Chris Cuomo’s warning is clear: the Democratic Party has veered so far left that even its old guard can’t recognize it — or survive in it.