Former CNN host Chris Cuomo criticized the Democratic Party following the defeat of his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday by self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani.

Cuomo told viewers on his NewsNation program Wednesday night, “Thank you very much for all the kind words about my brother. I didn’t cover the mayoral election or even comment on it here at NewsNation for obvious reasons, and my feelings about my brother and what he should do now, those are personal, not professional. So, suffice it to say, I love and support my brother, and I’m not worried about him.”

He then said he wasn’t stunned by the outcome.

“It was a low turnout race that people did not think could go the way it did. The enthusiasm and turnout energy were overweighted for the more extreme candidates, as is often the case, and that’s one of the problems with our binary system and with our closed primaries,” Cuomo said.

“Not to mention, and contrary to what was sold by his opponents, Andrew’s no establishment guy and the party was not loving that he ran, but that’s his case to make, okay?” the host added.

Governor Cuomo, 67, who was elected to the position three times, resigned in 2021 amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment by female staffers. The scandal severely damaged his standing among primary voters and the Democratic establishment, leaving him largely ostracized within the party.

During his campaign, Mamdani, 33, a state assemblyman, promoted a progressive platform that included defunding the police, expanding rent control, creating government-run grocery stores, raising taxes, and allocating $65 million in taxpayer funding for “gender-affirming” procedures for both adults and children.

In response to the election results, Chris Cuomo condemned what he called the Democratic Party’s “extremism,” declaring that, in his view, the party is effectively “dead.”

“The Democratic Party is now officially in MAGA mode. We are now, on both sides, in a period of extremism,” Cuomo claimed. “The same way MAGA played with the prejudices of white nationalism, you’re seeing an identical dynamic on the Left with prejudices like tacitly supporting extreme Islamism or targeting Jews.”

“For the Right, it’s migrants. For the Left, it’s Jews. It’s fundamentalist Christians dominating the Right. It’s fundamentalist Islamists making headway on the Left. I know that doesn’t sound like Democrats, but that party is dead. What it will be reborn as, we’ll see,” Cuomo added.