President Trump on Thursday used remarks in Iowa ahead of Independence Day to take aim at Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City who has become a favorite target of criticism for Republicans.

"This guy is a communist at the highest level, and he wants to destroy New York. I love New York and we’re not going to let him do that," Trump said at an event in Des Moines.

"Generations of Americans before us did not shed their blood only so that we could surrender our country to Marxist lunatics on the eve of our........

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