After defeating Independent Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, Zohran Mamdani New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor.
“The conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate,” Mamdani, 34, told the crowd at his election night rally. “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologise for any of this.”
He continued: “New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change.”
Mamdani campaigned on a strongly progressive agenda that called for free public bus service, universal childcare and a rent freeze on stabilized apartments so it’s fair to say that his win came after a community-driven effort that grew out of the real affordability struggles facing many New Yorkers.
Not surprisingly, his win attracted the nationwide attention, especially after President Donald Trump had mocked Mamdani publicly and issued a threat to defund the city if he won.
“Remember, he needs the money from me, as President, in order to fulfill all of his fake communist promises. He won’t be getting any of it,” Trump said.
Before the elections, Trump, who called Mamdani a “communist” on the social media, posted on Truth Social, “Whether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice. You must vote for him and hope he does a fantastic job. He is capable of it, but Mamdani is not!” The president added that a vote for Sliwa would only help Mamdani.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home.”
The “attacks” didn’t stop after the elections either.
When Mamdani pledged to “stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors,” Trump said, “Well then, we’ll have to arrest him,” as reported by ABC News.
Further, Trump claimed the new mayor is in the country unlawfully, although Mamdani became a US citizen back in 2018 after moving to the country in 1998 as a seven-year-old child.
“A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” Trump said. “We’re going to look at everything. Ideally, he’s going to turn out to be much less than a communist. But right now, he’s a communist. That’s not a socialist.”
Trump even threatened to deport Mamdani.
As expected, Mamdani was quick to answer back, saying, “The President of the United States just threatened to have me arrested, stripped of my citizenship, put in a detention camp and deported. Not because I have broken any law but because I will refuse to let ICE terrorize our city.”
He continued, “His statements don’t just represent an attack on our democracy but an attempt to send a message to every New Yorker who refuses to hide in the shadows: if you speak up, they will come for you.
“We will not accept this intimidation,” Mamdani added in his post.
On Oct. 29, Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles put out a statement demanding an investigation into Mamdani and urging that his US citizenship be revoked. He claimed Mamdani lied on his naturalization paperwork and tied him to “communist” and “terroristic” beliefs. His claims, however, lacked evidence.
“If Mamdani lied on his naturalisation documents, he doesn’t get to be a citizen, and he certainly doesn’t get to run for mayor of New York City,” Ogles wrote.
“A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology. The American naturalization system requires any alignments with communism or terrorist activities to be disclosed. I’m doubtful he disclosed them. If this is confirmed, put him on the first flight back to Uganda,” Ogles added.
According to PolitiFact, there is “no credible evidence that Mamdani lied on his citizenship application,” and “denaturalization, the process of revoking a person’s citizenship, can be done only by judicial order.”
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