Are you a "Mini-Mamdani?" Mike Johnson Thinks So

House Speaker Mike Johnson bitterly complains that “Mini-Mamdanis” are popping up all over the country, in a hysterical, red-baiting outburst that exposes just how screwed Republicans are in November!

He really told it on himself with this one…

Speaking to Fox News, House Speaker Johnson whined that the example being set by New York’s rockstar mayor Zohran Mamdani is leading to little mini-Mamdani's popping up all around the country, and they're openly avowed to "socialist Marxist ideology.”

“This is something that we have never seen before in American history. This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology. And that's a dangerous thing for the future of the country.”

He’s right – there ARE mini-Mamdanis popping up all over the country as a direct response to the outrageous greed and corruption of the Trump administration and the Republican Party.

Democrats like Graham Platner in Maine, Brian Poindexter in PA, and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan are all running on platforms similar to Mamdani’s, and given the stunning successes that Mamdani has had so far, their chances of winning are rightfully striking fear in the cold, black heart of Mike Johnson.

Mamdani just announced a balanced budget, eliminating a $12 billion deficit without any cuts to public services, and is investing $122 million to hire 1,000 new teachers to improve their public schools.

He’s even turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

He’s proving to the American public that far from being the budget-wrecking disasters that Republicans and corporate Democrats say they will be, democratic socialist policies that work for the people produce immediate results.

Nothing could be more terrifying to Johnson and Trump than seeing progressive Democrats succeed.

Platner, El-Sayed Embrace Warning That They Are ‘Direct Threat to the US-Israel Relationship’

“I’m Abdul El-Sayed and I endorse this message,” said the US Senate candidate in Michigan.

May 06, 2026 https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-israel

Two Democratic US Senate candidates in closely watched primary races found themselves in rare agreement with a powerful pro-Israel lobby group on Tuesday evening after it warned the two progressives posed “a direct threat to the US-Israel relationship.”

“I’m Abdul El-Sayed and I endorse this message,” said the physician and public health advocate running in a three-way race in Michigan, where he recently emphasized at a rally that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—the group that issued the warning to voters—has endangered Jewish Americans by promoting the idea that criticizing the Israeli government is antisemitic.

In Maine, combat veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner, the presumed winner of the June 9 primary following Gov. Janet Mills’ decision to suspend her campaign, said he was also “proud to appear” in AIPAC’s fundraising email, “and many AIPAC fundraising emails to come.”

In its email to supporters, AIPAC said El-Sayed and Platner are the chosen candidates of a “coordinated, well-funded effort to punish anyone who stands with Israel”—one that’s being “driven by the far-left fringe of American politics.”

The group added that the movement is being “pushed” by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—one of the nation’s most prominent Jewish political leaders and consistently ranked as the most popular member of the US Senate—and “amplified by voices like Hasan Piker,” a Twitch streamer and commentator who has campaigned with El-Sayed.

Piker’s involvement in El-Sayed’s campaign sparked a weekslong controversy, with the other two Michigan Democrats in the race, AIPAC-backed Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, accusing El-Sayed of associating with someone who’s promoted antisemitism and comparing Piker to white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes.

Both El-Sayed and Piker have condemned antisemitism, expressed vehement support for Palestinian rights, and denounced Israel’s US-backed attacks on the occupied Palestinian territories.

In its email, AIPAC doubled down on its claims that El-Sayed and Platner are part of an extremist movement that occupies the fringes of American public life, warning that they’ve embraced “extreme rhetoric, pushed false accusations of genocide, and openly support cutting off aid” to Israel.

But numerous polls in recent months have suggested that Israel’s actions since it began attacking Gaza in October 2023 with US military funding—killing more than 72,000 Palestinians, creating the largest child amputee population in the world, and imposing an intentional starvation policy—have resulted in plummeting approval ratings for the country and its right-wing government, without any help from Sanders, Platner, El-Sayed, or Piker.

Months into Israel’s war on Gaza, cracks in Israel’s popularity among US voters were already beginning to show. In May 2024, a poll by Data for Progress found that 56% of Democratic voters believed Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, and 54% said they supported suspending all US arms sales to Israel until it stopped blocking humanitarian aid.

Public disapproval has only grown more pronounced since then. A Gallup poll showed in February that for the first time, a larger share of Americans sympathized with the Palestinians than with Israel in the Middle East conflict. In March, a survey by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies found that just 32% of US voters viewed Israel positively, down from 47% in 2023.

Just before the US helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last October—a deal Israel has repeatedly violated, killing hundreds of Palestinians since it was reached—a Washington Post poll found that 61% of Jewish Americans believed Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza and 40% said Israel was guilty of genocide.

At a rally held by Platner and Sanders in September, the political newcomer garnered loud applause when he called for an end to US funding for the Israeli military.

On Tuesday, despite the mounting evidence to the contrary, AIPAC replied to El-Sayed’s “endorsement” of its attack by insisting that many voters want to vote for a candidate “who backs a partnership that delivers for Michigan—more jobs, a stronger auto industry, thriving agriculture, and better healthcare.”

The Medicare for All advocate retorted that he plans to be “a senator who keeps Michigan tax dollars in Michigan to fund schools, healthcare, and roads... in Michigan.”

Recent polls have shown a close race in the state. The most recent survey by the Glengariff Group found Stevens ahead of El-Sayed by just two points, with McMorrow behind six points.

A poll by Emerson College, also taken in mid-April, found El-Sayed and McMorrow tied with 24% of the vote, despite the attacks on El-Sayed over his campaigning with Piker.

The Michigan primary is scheduled for August 4.

Graham Platner - "Honored to receive another endorsement from a future colleague. I look forward to working with Martin Heinrich to end forever wars and pass Medicare for All."

Brian Poindexter - "I am tired of the Republicans who are in the pockets of the rich and the corporations. I'm tired of the sellout Democrats too, the ones who fight for everybody else except for the working people.

We have to fundamentally change who has power in our country.

The time is now. We don't have time to wait."

Brian Poindexter is a father, union ironworker, and Brook Park city councilman, running for Congress because working people deserve real representation — not empty promises.

Brian Poindexter says:

"With the way things are going, I don't think working people like you and me are going to hold on much longer.

I mean, we're working harder and harder, and we're getting less and less.

Growing up in the '80s on the west side of Cleveland, we didn't have much, but an honest day's work was enough to provide for your family.

My dad was a machinist with the IAM for 46 years.

That one job was enough to support a family of 8.

That is obviously not possible anymore.

I got my first job at a machine shop at 15 years old. I worked 7 days a week.

It was 1995.

I was making 6 bucks an hour, which at the time wasn't that bad.

You know what's really messed up?

Minimum wage is barely more than I made over 30 years ago. We're hurting, man.

We're hurting just to boost the profit margins of those who have too much.

What really pisses me off is we're struggling to make ends meet, and we got a guy on pace to be a trillionaire.

Our whole district could be millionaires with the amount of money that one guy is going to accumulate for himself.

And good people can't even get SNAP benefits? That's crazy to me.

And I'm tired.

I am tired of the Republicans who are in the pockets of the rich and the corporations.

I'm tired of the sellout Democrats too, the ones who fight for everybody else except for the working people.

We have to fundamentally change who has power in our country.

The time is now. We don't have time to wait.

We got to raise the minimum wage. We got to protect workers.

We got to strengthen unions, save Social Security, and guarantee healthcare.

I'm Brian Poindexter.

I'm a dad.

I'm a Union Iron Worker.

I'm a Browns fan.

I'm a Brook Park City council member.

And I'm running for Congress to end this corruption.

Our current congressman, he was born rich.

He doesn't know what it takes to struggle.

He is going to pour millions of dollars into this race to try to silence me and you.

He is a stain on Northeast Ohio.

And with your help, we're going to send him packing.

I don't want to think about politics.

I just want to go build stuff.

But the politicians in Washington are making things worse.

They're making life harder, and they're cheapening our labor.

And I feel a tremendous responsibility to stand up for working people like you and me.

I am asking you to join me because this might be our last and only shot to get things back on track, to tell the billionaires where to shove it, and to finally fight for working people." https://poindexterforcongress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/PoindexterForCongress/

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