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Comedian Bill Maher sparred Friday with one of his guests, Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., when the lawmaker dismissed criticism of New York City’s Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as a "contrived villain or boogeyman."

"He’s not contrived. He’s gonna be the mayor of New York," Maher argued.

The late-night show host cited Mamdani's "Marxist" positions, such as the "abolition of private property," after he declared that the Big Apple has "never had someone this radical."

"There’s a lot of opposition [to Mamdani] because we’ve never had someone this radical," Maher warned. "Some of the things he says, you know he quotes Marxists, ‘each according to their need.’ I mean, that’s straight up Communism."

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