India, Nov. 7 -- Senator Ted Cruz has slammed former Fox News host Tucker Carlson for showing support to New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Carlson, who now has his own show, defended the Democrat in Thursday morning's edition of his newsletter.

Cruz, a Republican, labelled the recent elections including the one in NYC a 'disaster' for Republicans and called Mamdani a 'full-on communist.' "Comrade Mamdani is the face of the Democrat Party," he said, as per The Hill. Cruz's criticism came despite Mamdani having clarified earlier that he's not a communist.

Under the sub-header, "Jews for Mamdani," Carlson wrote:

"You saw the campaign attacks against Zohran Mamdani. He's a socialist! True. He's a communist! Possibly true. He's an a...