Fox anchor says of Mamdani's drug and crime policies: “Crime and drug addiction, if you get enough of it in the streets and into the bloodstreams of the American people, they'll be easier to control"
Harris Faulkner: “This is punishment for the American voters”
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From the July 10, 2025 edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
BEN FERGUSON (FOX GUEST): We've got a guy that is like a Marxist-socialist-communist all in one who doesn't want to apologize for being an antisemite. And this is — and I say it over and over again — this is not your parents' Democratic Party.
This is a civil war in the Democratic Party. It is being won by the Marxists, the socialists, and the declared communists. This is a guy who ran on abolishing the New York Police Department, abolishing prisons. He wants to abolish medical bills. He wants to abolish private health insurance. He wants to ban all guns. Just go around the world and see where that's worked out.
He also wants to legalize sex work in New York City. He says he wants safe injection sites that taxpayers would pay for. He says we should have no cash bail. He wants to decriminalize all drug possessions and end sentencing, as he calls it, enhancement. On top of all that, he says if you elect me, I will never cooperate with ICE. I will be a safe haven for illegal immigrants. And this is where the Democratic Party is now.
Now, that's a long list I just gave you. But this is a guy that is saying I'm with the Democratic new party. This is happening, by the way, in LA. This is not an outlier with the mayor there. It's happening in Chicago, Harris, with the mayor there. So you look at the grass roots of the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is dead. This is who they are, and Hakeem Jeffries is now on the outside looking in.
HARRIS FAULKNER (FOX HOST): Look, I'm adding up some of the stuff you said. You talked about the drugs and, you know, legalizing prostitution. Crime and drug addiction, if you get enough of it in the streets and into the bloodstreams of the American people, they'll be easier to control. That —
FERGUSON: Sure.
FAULKNER: — is what I'm watching, Mamdani and those other districts that you are talking about who have mayors — the job that he wants next. That's what it looks like from the outside. This is punishment for the American voters.