In a town where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall. That bloc is squarely behind Mamdani and fighting hard for victory in November.

AOC, who loudly backed Mamdani during the primary, said she was eager for people in DC to meet her fellow lefty firebrand face-to- face to hear his plan for NYC.

The Democratic mayoral nominee told members of the Partnership for New York City he still supported the ideas behind the slogan.

The poll results emerge as Cuomo relaunched his campaign as an independent following his primary defeat by Mamdani.

Mamdani came under fire for not condemning the phrase at the tail end of the primary election, and he has faced accusations that this stance bolstered Jewish hate and was antisemitic, including

Zohran Mamdani urges urgent infrastructure upgrades for New York City following flash floods and heavy rains that disrupted transport.

NYC landlords are scrambling to stop Mamdani's ascent, warning that the candidate's policies would "destroy" the city's rental market. But renters back him up.

The comments came in a closed-door meeting with an influential business consortium, the New York Times reported.

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will stay in the New York City mayoral race as an independent candidate despite his stunning loss in the Democratic Party's primary election to self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani.