Zohran Mamdani is under fire for his Fourth of July post calling America "beautiful, contradictory, unfinished." (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
"I wonder, has he ever read the letters from boy soldiers in the Union Army to parents and sweethearts that they'd never see again?" Vance continued. "Has he ever visited the grave site of a loved one who gave their life to build the kind of society where his family could escape racial theft and racial violence? Has he ever looked in the mirror and recognized that he might not be alive were it not for the generosity of a country he dares to insult on its most sacred day?"
"Who the hell does he think that he is?" Vance said.
Vice President JD Vance called on Mamdani to show gratitude toward the U.S. for its long history of sacrifices. (Fox News/Special Report)
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"Zohran Mamdani’s father fled Uganda when the tyrant Idi Amin decided to ethnically cleanse his nation's Indian population," Vance said. "Mamdani's family fled violent racial hatred, only for him to come to this country – a country built by people he never knew, overflowing with generosity to his family, offering a haven from the kind of violent ethnic conflict that is commonplace in world history, but it is not commonplace here – and he dares on our 249th anniversary to congratulate it by paying homage to its ‘incompleteness,’ and to its, as he calls it, ‘contradiction.'"
Mamdani's campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on Vance's remarks.
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