Speaker Johnson on Socialists in the Dem Party: There Are Many Mamdani’s Popping Up, ‘These Are Marxists,’ It’s Communism, Socialism

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JOHNSON: “Well, Steve needs to see what we’ve been saying. I’ve been saying this for years and on the campaign trail for over a year and a half. And since Mamdani got elected in New York, I’ve been out of the campaign trail countrywide, across coast to coast, every swing district, the blue states, red states, saying the same thing. There are many Mamdanis popping up running for Congress around the country. And you better be very serious about this. This is a serious threat to our whole system of government. These are Marxists. It’s communism, socialism. Those are deviations of Marxism. Begins with the opposite premise of America, and it is a serious threat to us. These people want to say — they’re saying it out loud. They want to abolish all borders. They want to abolish all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want to abolish the U.S. Senate. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control of all production. This is communism and it has led to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of them in the 20th century alone. We have to fight this. We’re no longer just in an election cycle, where we were saying it was common sense versus crazy. Now it’s common sense versus communism. And everybody needs to wake up.”