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Is Mamdani “Explicitly a Communist”? Fact-Checking Ted Cruz on the P.A.S. Report
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Ted Cruz told the P.A.S. Report that Zohran Mamdani "wants to seize the means of production" and "is explicitly a communist." We rate that mostly-false — truth score 0.30, confidence 0.88.
The quote Cruz is invoking is real. The word "explicitly" is what breaks.
In February 2021, at a Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, then-assemblyman Mamdani listed "the end goal of seizing the means of production" among positions socialists believe in but where, in his words, "we do not have the same level of support at this very…
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