Patriots owner Robert Kraft calls Mamdani NYC election 'sad' and victory speech 'divisive'

Robert Kraft jokingly explained astatine a gathering of the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate connected Thursday however the New York Jets are not 1 of his favorites, due to the fact that helium owns the rival New England Patriots. But helium wants the champion for New York City, anyway, and the predetermination of Zohran Mamdani is not thing Kraft is blessed about.

"It's bittersweet to maine that a antheral tin get elected successful the metropolis of New York, the No. 1 metropolis successful America, with a batch of beliefs, and erstwhile I heard him travel retired and talk aft helium won, I thought helium was going to beryllium much of a unifier. I deliberation helium spoke retired successful a mode that showed divisiveness," Kraft said successful an exclusive interrogation with FOX News and Outkick.

"And that truly wounded me."

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(Left) New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft connected the tract earlier a crippled astatine Highmark Stadium successful Orchard Park, New York, connected Oct. 5, 2025. (Right) New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani speaks during an predetermination nighttime lawsuit astatine the Brooklyn Paramount Theater successful Brooklyn, New York, connected Nov. 4, 2025. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images; Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Kraft Problem With Mamdani Speech

Mamdani's triumph code was thing disconnected immoderate Marxist dictator's teleprompter, trumpeting a caller time connected which 1 people of radical vanquished another.

And witnesser the archetypal enactment of Mamdani's speech: "The prima whitethorn person acceptable implicit our metropolis this evening, but arsenic Eugene Debs erstwhile said: "I tin spot the dawn of a amended time for humanity."

Eugene Debs was an avowed Marxist who was the founding subordinate and five-time statesmanlike campaigner of the Socialist Party of America from 1900 to 1920.

"New York volition stay a metropolis of immigrants — a metropolis built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, arsenic of tonight, led by an immigrant," Mamdani bellowed during his speech.

Left unsaid here? New York was built by immigrants specified arsenic Italians, Irish and lately, Hispanics, galore of whom assimilated into the cloth of the metropolis and yet became woven into the culture. It wasn't a clump of outsiders who took implicit and established their socialist empire.

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New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a quality league successful the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Heather Khalifa/AP Photo)

Mamdani Rhetoric Not In USA's Interest

Mamdani framed his triumph arsenic a generational displacement successful which 1 younger radical takes powerfulness from different older radical that is present little important. And, speechmaking betwixt the lines, helium declared a taste and fiscal warfare connected those who don't stock his vision.

"We won," helium said, "because we insisted that nary longer would authorities beryllium thing that is done to us. Now, it is thing that we do."

Much of this is concerning to Kraft, the proprietor of the New England Patriots.

"I mean, he's tapped into thing and touched thing that radical nether 30 oregon 35 who, haven't truly experienced the world, but consciousness that America's not surviving up to definite values," Kraft said. "We should wage attraction to that. 

"But not to the divisiveness and hatred and, really, things that aren't successful America's champion interest. 

"And it's a small bittersweet for maine to spot that hap successful the twelvemonth 2025," Kraft continued. "We person to find a mode to get a amended knowing and amended the radical who deliberation they're solving a problem, but creating a bigger problem."

Kraft was evidently referring to Mamdani's voters. 

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Robert Kraft introduces Mike Vrabel arsenic caput manager of the New England Patriots during a property league astatine Gillette Stadium connected Jan. 13, 2025 successful Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Billie Weiss/Getty Images)

Mamdani: No Support For Jewish State

Mamdani has declined to explicitly affirm Israel’s close to beryllium arsenic a Jewish state. During aggregate debates helium was asked, "Do you judge successful a Jewish authorities of Israel?" 

His answer: "I judge that Israel has a close to beryllium arsenic a authorities with adjacent rights."

This is the benignant of antisemitism that Kraft's Blue Square Alliance Against Hate wants to expose.

On the 2nd day of the Hamas Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel, Mamdani wrote 1 condemnation connected societal media decrying the Hamas attack. And 3 paragraphs accusing Israel of genocide successful Gaza.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry and aggregate blimpish politicians and media condemned Mamdani's day statement. The Israelis said the connection normalizes antisemitism.

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New York City Democratic mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani celebrates arsenic helium takes the signifier astatine his predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the Brooklyn Paramount connected November 4, 2025, successful the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Mamdani defeated Independent campaigner Andrew Cuomo and Republican campaigner Curtis Sliwa successful the intimately watched predetermination for New York City mayor.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty)

October 7 Derailed Abraham Accords

Kraft, similar galore Americans, is an unashamed protagonist of Israel. And helium believes the October 7th onslaught by Hamas was a ngo to bring discord successful the Middle East that would forestall Israel from normalizing bid with its Arab neighbors.

"The authorities of Israel represents the values of America and the occidental satellite and is really doing the hard things to effort to support America … We person aligned interests there," Kraft said. 

"We cognize each the mean Arab regimes privation to go portion of the Abraham accords. That's wherefore October 7th happened. They wanted to derail the efforts. Saudi Arabia was astir to adjacent a woody with [Israel]. 

"I don't recognize wherefore radical person truthful overmuch hatred and evil successful them erstwhile we're talking astir antithetic ways to respect the Lord and grant God and person prayer. Everyone should beryllium escaped to bash it the mode they want."

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