Radio host Charlamagne tha God told CNN host Van Jones to shut up Wednesday after he criticized New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s fiery victory speech.

Jones accused Mamdani of a “character switch” during an impassioned election-night address on Tuesday, arguing that he had missed an opportunity to bring more New Yorkers into his camp after a contentious election.

“I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent,” Jones told the election night panel on CNN . “I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.

“And that’s not the Mamdani that we’ve seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that, so I felt like there was a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open,

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