Bernie Sanders warns against the fight for the future of the Democratic Party at the town hall

The Democrats face a fight for the future of the party, warned Senator Bernie Sanders during his town hall “Fighting Oligarchy” with the candidate of the town hall Zohran Mamdani at the Brooklyn College of New York on Saturday.

The independent senator of Vermont criticized the Democrats of New York, notably Governor Kathy Hochul, the head of the Senate of the Senate, Senator Chuck Schumer and the chief of the room, the representative Hakeem Jeffries, for having refused to have Mamdani approved in the stormy race for Gracie Mansion.

“I find it difficult to understand how the main Democrats of New York State Department do not support the Democratic candidate,” said Sanders.

“You might think that if a candidate from 2% in the polls obtains 50,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, implies young people in the political process, obliges non -traditional voters to vote, democratic leaders would jump from top to bottom. He is our guy!”

Sanders called for the lack of support from his “strange” party and made his position on the party leadership: “We had another fight in our hands, and it is the future of the Democratic Party.”

The viral photo shows Bernie Sanders, Aoc and Mamdani together in New York before the Rallye “ fighting the oligarchy ”

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., And the New York town hall candidate, Zohran Mamdani, holds his hand during the event “Fighting the oligarchy” at Brooklyn College on September 6, 2025. (Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)

The native of Brooklyn took advantage of the event as an opportunity to put pressure on the Democrats of New York to join their candidate. Mamdani presents the challenges of two independent candidates, former governor Andrew Cuomo and outgoing mayor Eric Adams, as well as the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa.

Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani joins forces to “fight the oligarchy” in New York

When he was contacted to comment on his call for apparent action in Sanders on Saturday, Hochul’s office underlined the governor’s comments on “Fox News on Sunday.”

“There has been so much speculation about what I am going to do. I think the biggest question is what New York voters want to do. I vote in Buffalo, New York, just for the record. I am not a New York city – I’m here part -time. But listen, it belongs to the voters of New York,” Hochul said to Fox News “.

No matter who wins the New York mayor race, Hochul said that she needed this person to work with them to protect the Jewish community and make sure businesses can continue to prosper thanks to affordability and public security.

“Stay listening. We will see what’s going on,” added Hochul for approval.

Schumer and Jeffries did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.

The head of the minority of the Chamber, the representative Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., on the right, is joined by the head of the Senate minority, Senator Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., for a press conference in the statuary room in the Capitol on February 12, 2025. (AP / Rod Lamkey, Jr./file)

While Sanders joined New Yorkers for Mamdani, the town hall was not without its detractors. “You are a communist!” A demonstrator shouted in Mamdani as he addressed the crowd.

President Donald Trump nicknamed Mamdani a “100% communist madman” since he won the Democratic primary in June.

Before the Brooklyn town hall, the two progressive leaders walked alongside the members of the union during the Labor Day parade in Manhattan. Saturday afternoon, Mamdani posed for a photo with Sanders and the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., in Astoria. The post has amassed more than 6 million views on X Monday morning.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., Participate in a stop of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in Bakersfield, California, April 15, 2025. (Reuters / Aude Guerrucci)

Sanders, twice nominated in the Democratic presidential election, was an early trainer of the Mamdani main campaign, with Ocasio-Cortez. Their endorsements have helped Mamdani to consolidate progressive support in the field of 11 candidates in the last weeks of the primary campaign.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Full -sized buzz During the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour earlier this year, triggering thousands of democrats during rallies through the United States which left without a clear party leader since the devastating losses from top to the bottom of the ballot in 2024.

While the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour of Sanders seemed to be a glimmer of hope for a certain time for a fractured party, Mamdani’s surprising main victory this summer seems to have rekindled this democratic base in a new direction, although more progressive.

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Mamdani campaign platform promises progressive ideas Like rent boles, grocery stores managed by the city, free buses and the increase in minimum wage – which it plans to pay by increasing corporate taxes and 1%.