Women’s sports advocate and former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines has joined the chorus ripping socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for his pitiful attempt to pump iron.

The openly socialist candidate for Big Apple mayor has been facing criticism for being seen struggling to lift a mere 135 pounds in a video of a campaign stop on Saturday, the New York Post reported.

Gaines was shocked by Mamdani’s apparent weakness and said she was able to lift “165lb relatively easy reps on a bench when I weighed 130lbs.”

In a post on X, she joked, “I’m not saying we should judge politicians for how much they can bench, but I’m absolutely judging a politician for how much he can bench.”

The video and images of Mamdani’s campaign stop are said to show that the Democratic So

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