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

Robert Kraft speaks to Fox News and OutKick about the New York City mayoral election result.

Robert Kraft jokingly explained at a gathering of the Blue Square Alliance Against Hate on Thursday how the New York Jets are not one of his favorites, because he owns the rival New England Patriots. But he wants the best for New York City, anyway, and the election of Zohran Mamdani is not something Kraft is happy about.

"It's sad to me that a man can get elected in the city of New York, the No. 1 city in America, with a lot of beliefs, and when I heard him come out and speak after he won, I thought he was going to be more of a unifier. I think he spoke out in a way that showed divisiveness," Kraft said in an exclusive interview with FOX News and Outkick.

"And that really hurt me."

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(Left) New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft on the field before a game at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, on Oct. 5, 2025. (Right) New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 4, 2025. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images; Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Mamdani's victory speech was something off some Marxist dictator's teleprompter, trumpeting a new day on which one class of people vanquished another.

And witness the first line of Mamdani's speech: "The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: "I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity."

Eugene Debs was an avowed Marxist who was the founding member and five-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America from 1900 to 1920.

"New York will remain a city of