Mamdani calls on non-democrats who look at the general elections in November
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The candidate for the Democratic Socialist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, called on the non-democrats during brief remarks in Brooklyn on Sunday, launching his general electoral campaign.
Mamdani, who beat the former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo by 13 percentage points during the June primary, recently concluded his five-day anti-Donald Trump visit from each of the New York districts last week.
Without referring to Trump this time, Mamdani sent supporters in Brooklyn on Sunday with a message on affordability and the local government being able to take care of the “material needs” of voters.
“Are there more New Yorkers who want to join this movement for a city they can really afford?” Mamdani, who campaigned on socialist and communist ideas, such as grocery stores managed by the government and rent gels.
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The Democratic candidate for town hall Zohran Mamdani speaks during his anti-Trump tour on Staten Island on Wednesday August 13, 2025 in New York. (Joséphine Stratman / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Mamdani recalled a conversation he said he had the day of the primary election with a volunteer from an organization that approved his campaign. He said that the volunteer had “received a telephone call from a colleague about the aunts and uncles who broke up on the survey sites after being informed that they were not registered as a Democrats and capable of voting at that time”. Only the registered democrats were eligible to vote during the June primary.
Mamdani also told the story of an 18 -year -old man who stops next to him on a motorcycle on the evening of the primary elections to ask for a selfie. Mamdani said he had asked the young man if he had voted and that they had used his license to check his registration. According to Mamdani, the man was an inscribed republican, who was not eligible to vote in primary, but who could support the socialist democratic candidate during the general elections of November.
“I tell you the story of this 18-year-old young man, these aunts and uncles who had to be far from these survey sites to remind us how many New Yorkers there is more for us to speak,” said Mamdani. “And thank you for being here, because so often, all the victories in politics are described as if they are those of the candidate. But you know the truth. It is your victory. It is your work that led us 1% in the polls to beat a former governor of 13 points.”
Mamdani has attributed his campaign canvases, which went to door in six -story scenes, the rain or the sun, for having taken “a campaign that was considered, at best, an interesting idea for the one that won the most votes in all primary history in New York”.
Mamdani obtained more than 573.00 votes during the June primary, although the participation rate is less than 30% of registered democrats.
Representative Jerry Nadler, DN.Y., speaks in support of Zohran Mamdani on August 11, 2025, while the Mayoral Hope announced a tour “five arrondissements against Trump”. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)
“Thank you for being here today, because what you are showing is that this movement is just beginning. Yes, we are only just starting because we know that there are so many more neighborhoods to reach, so many New Yorkers to talk to us and many more people than we can finally show that there is the possibility that the local government can really meet their material needs,” added Mamdani on Sunday. “And thank you for doing this, because you are those who change history in this city and in this country, and it is an honor to be a part of this movement with each of you.”
Mamdani – who recently fell for his long position on the funding of the police – concluded his remarks without responding to the press, but Sunday earlier on social networks to address a mass shooting in Brooklyn.
He said that Crown Heights incident “stole the life of three New Yorkers and injured eight others”, adding that he was “grateful for the first speakers who rushed to danger and worked to save lives”.
Zohran Mamdani answered the journalist’s questions about demonstrators outside of his anti-Trump event on Staten Island. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)
“We cannot accept armed violence in our city,” wrote Mamdani.
Cuomo, who presents himself as independent in the November elections, recently increased attacks on Mamdani for having lived in a stabilized rent apartment despite his rich education.
Mamdani, the son of a famous Indian filmmaker and professor of Columbia University, recently returned from an extravagant wedding celebration in Uganda. He also recently fell for his support prior to the expression “globalizing the intifada” after a general criticism and concern of the Jewish community in New York.
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Outgoing mayor Eric Adams is also independent in November. The republican hope of the town hall is the founder of the Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa.
