New York City’s Asian-American community rallied behind Mayor Eric Adams Friday — slamming socialist challenger Zohran Mamdani for being too radical.
More than 100 Asian American community, civic and business leaders gathered in Confucius Plaza in Chinatown to back the incumbent, who is running for a second term as an independent in the November election.
“I say I support Democrats. I don’t support socialists,” local Democratic district leader James Yu told the crowd, swiping at Mamdani, the party’s nominee for mayor.
“He’s running in the wrong place,” Yu said about the left-wing Queens state Assemblyman.
“He should run for mayorship in Havana, Cuba – not in New York. In Nicaragua or Caracas, Venezuela.”
Adams also took a veiled swipe at the frontrunner, as he touted his record on public safety just a day after racking up endorsements from a slate of Big Apple law enforcement unions.
“I want to support the police while others want criminals to come back on our streets and harm us,” he said.
“I want criminals to be made and serve their time in jail.”
The mayor appeared to be referencing recently resurfaced comments by Mamdani in which the lefty lawmaker in 2020 questioned the “purpose” of prisons and jails and called for police not to respond to domestic violence calls.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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