RIGHT SPEAK: Trump Just Guaranteed a Republican Landslide in 2026; Mamdani’s Rise is a Gift Republicans are Already Using

Trump Just Guaranteed a Republican Landslide in 2026:

Donald Trump has never been one to shy away from a fight, but this time, he’s done more than just rattle the Democrats—he’s practically handed Republicans the keys to a midterm landslide in 2026. The playbook was simple, the execution flawless, and the results devastating for the opposition.

Here’s what happened.

When Zohran Mamdani the antisemitic socialist, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, many Democrats were less than thrilled. Last month, the Associated Press reported that his victory “exp osed anew the fiery divisions plaguing the Democratic Party as it struggles to repair its brand nearly half a year into Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Many progressives cheered the emergence of the young and charismatic Mamdani, whose candidacy caught on with viral campaign videos and a focus on the cost of living. But the party’s more pragmatic wing cast the outcome as a serious setback in their quest to broaden Democrats’ appeal and move past the more controversial policies that alienated would-be voters in recent elections.

For many Democrats who understand they have to toe a more mainstream line, Mamdani’s views were too radioactive, his presence too much of a risk for a party already struggling to hold together its fragile coalition. The last thing Democratic leadership wanted was to be seen defending someone so far outside the mainstream.

And Trump saw an opening and took it.

He didn’t just call out the Democrats—he set a trap, daring them to take a stand on Mamdani. Would they show some backbone and denounce extremism? Or would they cave to the activist base that’s been dragging their party leftward for years? The answer came swiftly, and it was exactly what Trump wanted.

Stop lying about Assemblyman Mamdani.

He is neither a communist nor a lunatic. And New York City doesn’t need to be saved by a wannabe King.

Besides, you are too busy destroying America with your One Big Ugly Bill to do anything else. pic.twitter.com/CktSeZvpVV
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) July 2, 2025

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Mamdani’s rise is a gift Republicans are already using:

Zohran Mamdani isn’t the most famous Democrat in the United States. But the frontrunner to serve as New York’s next mayor is well on his way — and he’ll get there, if Republicans have anything to say about it.

Immediately after the previously little-known state assemblyman from Queens won the Democratic nomination for mayor, stunning his party’s political establishment, Republicans got busy upping Mamdani’s name recognition. In every upcoming contest in every corner of the country, Republicans are attempting to cast Democrats as the party of Mamdani.

President Donald Trump, himself a former New Yorker, led the charge.

“It’s finally happened, the Democrats have crossed the line. Zohran Mamdani, a 100% Communist Lunatic, has just won the Dem Primary, and is on his way to becoming Mayor. We’ve had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Trump is prone to crude exaggeration and hyperbole. But Mamdani, 33, affiliates with the Democratic Socialists of America and has proposed raising taxes significantly on corporations and the wealthy; freezing rents; opening city-owned grocery stores; using taxpayer dollars to make daycare and bus service “free;” and reducing police funding. Mamdani has also refused to repudiate the phrase “globalize the intifada,” a phrase many American Jews interpret as an antisemitic call to violence

It’s no wonder Republicans are eager to turn every Democrat into a Mamdani, especially rising Democratic centrists and pragmatists who appeal to a broad base of voters; offer the GOP stiff competition; and could potentially cure what ailed the party in 2024. It also happens to be Politics 101, practiced by both parties whenever the opportunity arises.

In other words, for the Republicans, it’s smart strategy.

If swing voters and moderate independents in close races buy the GOP’s message that Mamdani is representative of most Democrats, Republicans stand to benefit. A Mamdani-centric message also has a reasonable chance of pressuring center-left Democrats to field distracting questions about Mamdani and his agenda, rather than their own policies. Regardless of how deftly they parry, there’s a risk of disappointing both their progressive activist base and rank-and-file voters.

“It takes up space in your campaign to have to answer questions about (Mamdani’s) positions over and over and over again,” Matt Gorman, a veteran Republican campaign adviser, told me.