New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is drawing fire from Republicans after a resurfaced video showed the state assemblyman supporting the “abolition of private property,” sparking renewed scrutiny of the Democratic Party’s left flank, Mediaite reported.

The video shared these views on housing: “If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee. It is preferable to what is going on right now, and I, people try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things, and it’s like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home.”

Mamdani was sharply criticized on Thursday after the video went viral on social media.

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