Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed skepticism that Americans are leery of electing a socialist such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to be commander-in-chief.

“Who are these people?” de Blasio wondered in an interview Wednesday when he was told that some Americans fear socialism.

“People are scared,” said “Good Day New York” co-host Lori Stokes.

“What people are scared?” the mayor asked.

“Of that term of Democratic socialist,” Stokes said.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. Who are these people?” the mayor asked.

Veteran Democratic Congressman James Clyburn, the co-host said.

“Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, of course, who’s going to be backing Biden, said when it comes to African Americans, that’s not the words that they want to hear together,” Stokes said.

Clyburn said on ABC Sunday that South Carolinians are “pretty leery” about the term socialist.

A recent poll found that 58% percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of socialism.

“I respect Jim Clyburn a lot, but let’s just go back to facts. It is a fact that in 2016 that Bernie Sanders won 13 million votes. It is a fact that with a small change in some of those states, he could have been the Democratic nominee,” de Blasio said.