In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong, joining millions of mainland Chinese who risked their lives to escape hunger, indoctrination and repression under Communist rule.
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election. She views socialism as a curse she barely survived when she fled China and fears that Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and the Democratic mayoral nominee, is a threat to her adopted home.
Ms. Song cannot understand the broad enthusiasm young people have for Mr. Mamdani, who leads the race.
He wants to raise taxes on the rich to fund programs like free child care, buses and city-owned grocery stores, which is vastly differentfrom the Marxist socialism that was practiced by China under Chairman Mao Zedong.
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Former President Obama called New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday to praise his campaign and offer to be a “sounding board” in the future, sources confirmed to ABC News.