Mamdani-backed Claire Valdez faces backlash over past ‘abolish PreCheck,’ airline nationalization calls

New York state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, the Democratic nominee for New York's 7th Congressional District, faced online backlash Wednesday after a podcast clip from May resurfaced following her primary victory in which the democratic socialist called for abolishing TSA PreCheck and nationalizing the airline industry.

"My hot take is we need to abolish PreCheck. I’ve got, like, a million beefs with the airline industry and the process of having to fly. We need to, like, nationalize the airline industry...