Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax Monday that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the city’s Democrat mayoral primary last week is a “disaster” for the party, which he described as “taken over by Karl Marx.”

“I’m wondering if there isn’t something like at the core of the party, that’s substantially wrong,” Giuliani said on “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “This is not just a misdirection. You know, we’ve had that as Republicans.

“We had Watergate – we had to recover from it. We had bad defeats – we had to recover. They’ve had some very bad defeats – they had to recover from it. They had [former President Bill] Clinton, who had to readjust after [former President Ronald] Reagan destroyed them for a while. But this is, I’ve never seen this in my experience in politics.

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