New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference at City Hall Park on Thursday. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

President Donald Trump will meet Friday with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — the man that Republicans have made no secret that they would very much like to turn into a national boogeyman.

We’ll have to wait and see what happens — they are due to meet at 3 p.m. ET at the White House — but it’s not difficult to see Trump trying to make political hay.

But just how productive might that be? And is Mamdani proving to be the boogeyman Republicans hope he’ll be?

We’ve got some new national polling conducted after the self-described democratic socialist’s win earlier this month. And it offers some clues.

In sum: Mamdani isn’t particularly unpopular

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