Zohran Mamdani could be heading for a shock defeat in New York - "I’ve covered Mamdani closely since he wowed New York with his come-from-behind primary win in the summer. I also spent a few months working as a communications adviser for current mayor Eric Adams who, despite what I believed was his clear superiority over both Cuomo and Mamdani, dropped out of the race in late September. One thing I gleaned from both positions is that Mamdani is a weak man and even weaker candidate. The mainstream media and a large part of New York’s herd-like electorate might have been blinded by his youthful verve and nifty social media wins. But that fundamental fact about Mamdani remains true. My time with the Adams campaign also made clear that a record-breaking turnout is likely to hurt Mamdani. He has done well thus far by mobilising a relatively small group of highly energised supporters, but a higher turnout could bring to the polls less politically-active voters who do not subscribe to his divisive positions. And it appears via analysis of initial voting data that voter turnout for this election could be unprecedented. Since early voting opened last weekend, nearly 400,000 New Yorkers have cast their ballots, considerably more than the equivalent figure in 2021. The way we saw it during my time with Adams, there has always been a finite number of Mamdani voters – and a relative limit to his appeal. There are only so many hipsters and progressives and queers for Palestine and #hotgirlsformamdani out there. And they mostly made their presence known during the primary. Of course, Mamdani has worked hard to expand his voter base and he’s certainly succeeded in doing that. But there are still plenty of New Yorkers who aren’t buying what he is selling. And they’re eager to make their voices known... Already some polls seem to have narrowed. Some have seen his lead over Cuomo shrink by half, while influential digital prediction market platform Polymarket declared this week that his odds of succeeding had “collapsed” and that Mamdani could very well lose the race."
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "Do you know why Khomeini promising free everything—free electricity, free water, free transportation, free housing—was so successful in mobilization the Iranian revolution, just like Mamdani’s “free everything” is mobilizing an American revolution now? Because those promises aren’t about delivery, but the psychology of control. In totalitarian movements, the promise of all things good creates something called an “infallible environment.” The infallible environment or movement is something upon which total moral purity is projected. Nothing is more morally pure than feeding the hungry and housing the unhoused. Once the infallible environment has been constructed, anybody who opposes it is considered morally corrupt. Then, the movement doesn’t have to destroy them. Society erases them as illegitimate. The movement automatically erases every roadblock by its appearance of virtue. “But how do you know that this movement isn’t actually for the betterment of mankind?” Because it’s advancing democratic socialism, which is purely theoretical and has never been achieved because it’s an oxymoron. In reality, the dictionary definition of democratic socialism is the total elimination of capitalism, which means the collapse of liberal democracies, which are the only system under which humans can thrive. In its place, only mass murder and history’s greatest famines have ensued. In the real world, liberal democracies protect the individual’s interest, and individualism is the only buffer against tyranny. The Founding Fathers understood this well, and that is why people vote with their feet to be here more than anywhere else in the world. Not places where the socialist experiment burnt everything to the ground. So do you see the illusion now? The movement that has historically only brought harm is perceived as good, while those fighting to preserve the only thing shown to produce good are reimagined as evil. That’s the psychology of control."
John LeFevre on X - "How did NYC end up with Mamdani?
- The largest employer is the government (13% of all jobs), and the #1 private sector job is non-profit work
- 40% of adults are not employed
- 53% of adults receive at least one form of public assistance
- 38% of residents are foreign-born
- 25% of residents are not proficient in English, and 50% do not use English as their primary language"
Fox News on X - "NEW: The mother of NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani refused to call her son “American” — and used language some view as derogatory toward the U.S. in a resurfaced 2013 interview. "It’s flippant, divisive, and dripping with contempt for the very country that gave your family a better life," GOP consultant and commentator Mehek Cooke says."
Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 on X - "Schrödinger’s Ugandan-Indian-American. “Not American at all” but simultaneously “more American than you.”"
Miranda Devine on X - "Why not stay in your home country if you despise America and bring up your children to despise it."
What a racist xenophobe Islamophobe. How dare she deny that Mamdani is American?!
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: In a resurfaced interview, Zohran Mamdani’s own mother described him as being “not American at all.” His own mother is saying it, will she also be labeled as Islamophobic?" <
p>Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "✅ freeze the rent ✅ 200k new affordable homes ✅ make it easier to build"
Bonchie on X - "The fact that communists can’t grasp how the first point destroys the ability for the second points to happen, after a century of evidence, is why these are the dumbest people on earth."
Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Zohran Mamdani's Democrat Socialists of America signed onto a statement calling to to release Elias Rodriguez, the terrorist who executed two Jews in Washington DC last spring."
DSA Liberation Caucus: "Excellent statement that we are proud to add our name to. Free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners."
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The Palestinian struggle is the tip of the spear against global imperialism. As imperialism has made the entire world its battlefield, it is justified to fight it, by any means necessary, without regard for geography. This holds especially true for those of us struggling behind enemy lines, inside the US, an entity that is an equal party in
all crimes committed by the zionists. Whether in the beseiged Gaza Strip, the Red Sea, the South of Lebanon or the heart of the US, there must be consequences for genocidal zionist imperialism, and those consequences are righteous. ORAR Unity of Fields @ Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee: FREE ELIAS"
This perfectly ties in to terrorist supporters' claims that Palestinians jailed by Israel for murder are "hostages" who are unjustly detained
Meme - End Wokeness: "Zohran Mamdani redistributing the lifting to his spotter:"
Exclusive | Zohran Mamdani flashes beaming smile in pic with Uganda bigwig who pushed law to put gay people in jail for life - "Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani flashed a beaming smile in a cringeworthy photo with a top Ugandan official who pushed harsh anti-LGBT policies — that included life imprisonment for gay people. Mamdani met with Rebecca Kadaga in July during a break from the campaign trail — after winning the Democratic primary — that included a lavish celebration of his recent nuptials at a secluded Ugandan compound owned by his family... The Mamdani campaign was left scrambling Sunday as photos of the meeting re-emerged, as a spokesperson claimed the democratic socialist candidate was “unaware” of Kadaga’s widely reported status as an anti-gay crusader. In 2012, then-Speaker Kadaga infamously said she was passing a draconian law imposing severe penalties against practicing homosexuals as a “Christmas gift” for supporters of the measure. “Ugandans want that law as a Christmas gift. They have asked for it and we’ll give them that gift,” Kadaga said then. Then-President Barack Obama called the legislation “odious.” Kadaha has been the first deputy prime minister since 2021, following a 10-year stint as the powerful parliament speaker. In 2024, the Ugandan government passed a law that further criminalizes LGBT people... Mamdani’s camp said it didn’t know Kadaga was the “architect” of Uganda’s vicious anti-LGBT law... Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who’s running for mayor as an independent against Mamdani, blasted his rival for the awkward photo — and tore into him for the explanation. “And as we’ve learned, if he’s smiling, he’s lying,” said Cuomo, who as governor approved the state’s gay marriage law and other pro-LGBT legislation. He noted the photo was taken around the time of a mass shooting on Park Avenue in Manhattan that resulted in the death of an NYPD officer. “Mamdani now claims he didn’t know who she was. That is laughable,” Cuomo went on. “Kadaga’s crusade against Uganda’s LGBTQ community has been condemned around the world for well over a decade. Any serious public official, particularly one from Uganda, would know exactly who she is.” Cuomo asked how a self-proclaimed progressive candidate for New York City — the birthplace of the Stonewall gay civil rights movement — found himself “smiling beside one of the most notorious anti-LGBTQ figures on the planet?” And, he added, “how does he maintain dual citizenship in a country that criminalizes people simply for who they love?” “New Yorkers deserve a mayor who stands on principle – not one who hides behind excuses. Zohran Mamdani has shown one quality time and again: duplicity,” Cuomo said. Some gay activists expressed outrage that Mamdani warmly greeted a gay hater. Chris Lynn, a co-founder of the Stonewall Democratic Club, the city’s first citywide LGBT club, wasn’t buying Mamdani’s explanation that he didn’t know who Kadaga was. “He’s either a liar or incredibly ill-informed. Oh, come on! No one thinks he’s that ill-informed,” Lynn said."
RedWave Press on X - "Bill Maher: “The issue now that Andrew Cuomo is bringing up in New York is that Zohran Mamdani is a Ugandan citizen. Uganda is a country where they kiII homos*xuals.”
Kate Bedingfield: “So someone who is a dual citizen can’t be mayor of New York?”
Bill Maher: “If I was a dual citizen with a country… whose government policy is we kiII homos*xuals. Yeah, I would renounce that citizenship.”
Kate Bedingfield: “I think that is buying into a fear framework that is not good for the country.”
Bill Maher: “You shouldn’t be afraid of that?!?”"
How silly. You're only supposed to be afraid of the right wing
New York Post on X - "Zohran Mamdani plans to phase out Gifted and Talented program in NYC elementary schools"
Maud Maron on X - "This punk went to fancy, expensive private schools except for the four years he went to a Specialized HS (i.e. a very ‘gifted & talented’ school) in NYC—the very opportunities he wants to deny NYC public school kids with his luxury-belief leftist insistence on mediocrity. Hypocrisy thy name is @ZohranKMamdani"
Neria Kraus on X - "🚨 Zohran Mamdani’s wife is praising Hamas propagandist Saleh Al Jafarawi, also known as Mr. Fafo, who campaigned for Hamas. According to reports, he was killed in Gaza by Palestinians that oppose Hamas."
Dan Burmawi on X - "As someone who was a Muslim for 20 years, who knows Islam and Muslims on a deeper level than any non-Muslim ever could, I can assure you that electing Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York would be no different than electing one of Hamas’s leaders. Watching this guy over the past few months and understanding the ideological bubble he was raised in under his father’s wing, I have absolutely no doubt that Zohran Mamdani and Yahya Sinwar share the same belief system."
Wall Street Apes on X - "In June 2025, GPS data placed Zohran Mamdani at Barack Obama’s war room twice in just 6 weeks. Also present were individuals tied to the Muslim Brotherhood Obama’s war room is located at 2446 Belmont Rd NW, just minutes from the Islamic Center of Washington DC The Muslim Brotherhood openly state their goal is to control the political power in every state in America and eventually the all country “We will run candidates inshallah— the strategy is a long-term strategy. I can be very confident to tell you. That we are on the road to the White House, to the Congress, to the decision making everywhere in the United States.”"
Blake Masters on X - "Zohran Mamdani will win because foreign-born New Yorkers overwhelmingly support him. It’s that simple. American-born New Yorkers do not support him. But that does not matter because the electorate has been so thoroughly reshaped by immigration."
MichaelRapaport on X - "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰 This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem. Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”? You ain’t working class — you’re fraud class. #ZohranMamdani #ZoronTheMoron"
Vivid.🇮🇱 on X - "Zohran Mamdani's intern, Frances Hamed, was caught on camera tearing down posters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas just days after the October 7th massacre. It tells you all you need to know about Mamdani."
George Santos on X - "Just in case anyone needed a refresher: Zohran Mamdani’s idea of a qualified pick for NYC’s Board of Education Chancellor is checks notes a former school principal turned congressman… who literally pulled a fire alarm and claimed it was because he couldn’t figure out how to open a door. Yes, that genius @JamaalBowmanNY the same one who was just fired by his own constituents for being a radical leftist completely out of touch with the very community he claimed to serve. So if you were looking for a no-frills, plain-English reason why Mamdani is a walking red flag for NYC’s future, congratulations: your kids’ education is now officially on the chopping block."
The Persian Jewess on X - "Leaked footage shows Zohran Mamdani at a private event full of masked attendees with a red bandana covering his face screaming: “We need to remake the state in the image of our people!” This is the real Zohran Mamdani. You’re all being played."
C3 on X - "Legacy Media NEGATIVE Coverage: Zohran Mamdani 5%
RFK Jr: 96% JD Vance: 90% Elon Musk: 96% Kash Patel: 96% Kristi Noem: 89% Pete Hegseth: 100% Tulsi Gabbard: 100% President Trump: 95% So telling… Legacy Media is the enemy of the people."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for a boycott of the New York Post over its accurate coverage in exposing Zohran Mamdani’s deep ties to Imam Siraj Wahhaj. They hate the truth."
jo ❀ on X - "i voted early for zohran mamdani <3"
Kaguya’s Top Gal on X - "*She complains about not being able to walk alone at night
*She voted for someone that wants to abolish prisons"
Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more."
Oren Barsky 🎗️ on X - "In NYC, antisemitic hate crimes outnumber Islamophobic ones by 8 to 1 — but sure, let’s talk about Islamophobia as if that’s the real crisis."
Lisa Cusack on X - "My father grew up Christian in a Muslim country. Both sides of his family had their property confiscated, they paid a special tax for being non-Muslim, many jobs were not available to them—certainly in the government—and they lived under frequent threats of government sanctioned mob violence. NONE of this is done to Muslims in America, and everybody knows it."
Katie Pavlich on X - "Mamdani is on the record promoting and calling for Intifada (murder) and sympathizes with Hamas. He adores architects of/those who celebrated the 9/11 attacks. His father -who shaped his political ideology - believes in normalizing suicide bombings."
The Persian Jewess on X - "Ilhan Omar: “Some people did something.”
Zohran Mamdani: “My aunt got weird looks for wearing a hijab after 9/11.”
Actual Americans: “2,977 innocent people burned alive in an instant right before our eyes…”"
Andrew Kolvet on X - "This is one of the ALL-TIME great answers from Scott Jennings reacting to Zohran Mamdani invoking Islamophobia after September 11: "You're going to run for mayor, and invoke 9/11? You darn sure better start with the people who died in the Twin Towers. Thats what I think. He didn’t do that. He made it about his experience, his aunt, all this." 100% right. Bravo @ScottJenningsKY"
Greg Price on X - "Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.” Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11"
Rob Henderson on X - "If Zohran’s aunt stops taking the subway because of 9/11 that’s because of bigotry. If your aunt stops taking the subway because she might get stabbed by a lunatic that’s because of her bigotry."
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has just been caught red-handed changing his story after saying his Muslim "aunt" had a very rough time wearing a hijab in public after 9/11 It was a "cousin" of his father, who is no longer alive, named "Zehra Fuhi." It's been exposed that Zohran's Muslim aunt didn't live in New York City at the time of 9/11. Everything about this dude is a fraud - this is only the latest example."
Daily Wire on X - "Mamdani said his aunt stopped riding the subway wearing a hijab after 9/11 because of Islamophobia. Turns out his aunt didn’t live in NYC or wear a hijab. So, now he says it was his father’s cousin and suggests fact-checking him is Islamophobic."
Park MacDougald on X - "Mamdani inventing a fake story about his aunt being harassed in order to portray Muslims as the true victims of the deadliest Muslim terror attack in history, as well as the deadliest attack on Americans in our history, is actually a perfect representation of the entire discourse around "Islamophobia"—a term whose sole purpose is to invent a grievance to integrate Muslims into the Democratic Party electoral machine, organized around resentment of regular Americans (ie the actual victims of 9/11)"
Adam Fisher on X - "Why are people so focused on Mamdani’s views on Israel? Because Mamdani’s views on Israel are unambiguously conspiratorial. “The NY State assembly is a bastion of Zionist thought.” “…when the boot of theNYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”"
Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "🚨 EXPLOSIVE: A new investigation has uncovered that Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia professor and father of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, sits on the advisory council of the Gaza Tribunal alongside Ramy Abdu, a designated Hamas operative. The tribunal’s recent Istanbul conference featured terror-linked speakers, including Sami Al-Arian (convicted of aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Raji Sourani (former PFLP member who met Hamas leaders), and Sahar Francis, whose NGO was designated by the U.S. Treasury as a PFLP affiliate. The Gaza Tribunal, which claims to be a human rights initiative, includes multiple former UN officials and Western academics who shared a stage with individuals tied to Hamas and other U.S.-designated terror groups. Abdu, who sits next to Mamdani on the advisory council, is documented as having close family ties to senior Hamas operatives and once appeared in photos with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Muhammad al-Jamassi. This means the father of a New York mayoral candidate was advising an organization run by and featuring known terrorists, Hamas affiliates, and UN insiders. How many more of these networks are quietly operating in Western academic and political spaces while hiding behind “human rights” rhetoric? Will any reporter bother to ask Zohran about this? I doubt it. Anything to say @ZohranKMamdani ?"
MAZE on X - "Zohran Mamdani's father: America is the root of all evil and was the inspiration for the nazis. Hitler learned genocide from Abraham Lincoln. I'm sure Zohran loves America though. Nice job NYC."
Dave Rubin on X - "This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever heard, and I say that as someone who used to work at the Young Turks."
Ian Haworth on X - "“America is the root of all evil”…so of course I moved my family to America!"
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "Zohran Mamdani's father was ethnically cleansed by Ugandans in 1972, along with 80k other Indians. The Brits took him in as a refugee. Americans gave him a scholarship and a professorship. And he'll never forgive us for it."
evan loves worf on X - "He wants free buses. What is wrong with you"
Roman Helmet Guy on X - "Zohran Mamdani's dad: "Hitler learned genocide from America."
Evan loves worf: "This is about buses.""
WATCH: DSA Members Say Zohran Mamdani Wants To Turn New York into a National Hub for Trans Surgery - "Daniel Goulden, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) New York steering committee, told a panel at last month’s conference that “Zohran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free. We’re gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms.” In one video posted to social media, he explains how the New York branch of the DSA has been working directly with the Mamdani campaign on his “trans-rights platform.” “We collaborated with the Zohran Mamdani campaign on his trans-rights platform, and what we explicitly wanted to do was use the power of New York City to provide free gender-affirming care—and I say free in case insurance companies decide to boot us off—free gender affirming care not just to people in New York City but across the country.” “DSA has regular meetings with him, let alone his team,” Goulden continues... In another video, he makes it clear that the goal is to circumvent state bans on transgender surgery and hormonal therapy, presumably for minors as well as adults."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "A man wearing a “Hot Girls for Zohran Mamdani” shirt went on a violent antisemitic rampage, shouting slurs at a Jewish mother and her daughter. These are Zohran’s supporters."
Crémieux on X - "Americans' views of Muslims became dramatically more favorable after the 9/11 attacks. Muslim population growth (via immigration) also increased."
Blake Neff on X - "America responded to the deadliest terrorist attack in history by drastically increasing their favorability toward Islam, spending trillions on nation-building Islamic countries, and admitting millions of Muslim immigrants. Its reward is seething resentment from people like Zohran Mamdani, who demand that Americans (especially white Americans) be plundered to enrich themselves. No amount of generosity will ever fix people who come from rotten societies. You just have to keep them out."
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ on X - "a major problem i have with @ZohranKMamdani is that he's a privileged trustifarian whose deepest politics seem to be driven by ressitenment"
Meme - The Falling Man: "The real victim here is Zohran Mamdani's aunt"
Packy McCormick on X - "Mamdani has achieved “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?” status. Every (legitimate, disqualifying in a sane political environment) criticism leveled against him makes his base like him more. His is an eight grade class president-ass campaign: free vending machines, no homework, Fridays off. None of it is actually feasible. None of it will work. No one cares. Some people just want to watch the world burn."
A Gene Robinson on X - "Mamdani… I got news for you.. If a man sworn to uphold the Constitution says “We came here to remake this state in the image of our people,” that’s not diversity… that’s a declaration of takeover. Under U.S. law (8 U.S.C. § 1451), a naturalized citizen can be denaturalized only for fraud or misrepresentation.. not for ideology. So if a mayoral hopeful’s like @ZohranKMamdani words reveal deceit about allegiance, the law is clear… investigate it. Let truth decide. We are one nation under God… not Allah. We will not be conquered. It’s just that simple. #FaithFamilyFreedom #AStoneGroove"
Robert Reich on X - "Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY. If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people. Listen to his inspiring words from primary night."
Claire on X - "Oligarchy?! The guy grew up in a $2 million dollar home in manhattan thanks to his mom being bankrolled by actual monarchs from Qatar. You could not imagine a more out of touch candidate if you tried!"
