The New York town hall candidate quotes Boston, Los Angeles as models to fight Trump

Boston and Los Angeles provide a “model to combat the way of fighting” Donald Trump in the president’s second term in the second term in New York, Zohran Mamdani said on Monday.

“We have seen that the best way to fight Donald Trump is to do exactly that. It is to fight it. It is not to curl up. It is not to collaborate. It is not a question is to call him,” Mamdani told Brooklyn journalists in an apparent blow to his competitor, former governor Andrew Cuomo.

When asked how the Democratic candidate for the town hall would react if Trump had moved to eliminate the deposit without cash in New York, as he did in Washington, DC on Monday morning Mamdani promised to fight.

“The Trump administration is the one we can see a model on how to fight it across this country. You can see that in the mayor Wu in Boston. We can also see it international with Mexico’s Sheinbaum President,” said Mamdani.

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New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani closed his tour “Five Boroughs Against Trump” in New York City in Queens on Friday August 15, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, rejected Trump’s repression against illegal immigration since he recognized the presidency last year.

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More specifically, it reaffirmed and strengthened the law on the trust, an order which limits local cooperation with the federal immigration authorities, in December 2024 before Trump’s second term.

When the prosecutor General Pam Bondi sent him, as well as to his colleagues leaders of the Blue City quick to defend his hometown.

“Stop attacking our cities to hide the failures of your administration. Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law,” said Wu.

Wu was one of the many mayors of the “sanctuary city” who defended the local Boston immigration laws before the chamber’s supervisory committee at the start of this year.

The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, speaks during a campaign rally in support of the Massachusetts Democratic Ticket on a state scale, on November 2, 2022, in Boston. (AP photo / Mary Schwalm, file)

“I think you need to use all the tools at your disposal, and I think we have seen in California how effective it can be to use the tools of the law, even if the Trump administration is thinking above the law,” said Mamdani on Monday.

Earlier this year, demonstrations rejecting the American deportation of immigration and customs on Trump’s forces plunged into riots in Los Angeles. For the first time in 60 years, the federalized president of the National Guard without request from the Governor of the State.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, widely considered as presidential hope in 2028, continued Trump for his The so-called “illegal” deployment of the National Guard without the consent of Newsom.

Newsom and Trump have since lacked the constitutional legality of such a decision, and the Governor of California has seized any opportunity to trolle the president.

California Governor Gavin Newsom attended a press conference on July 2, 2025 in Burbank, California. (CARLIN STIEHL / LOS Angeles Times via Getty Images)

While Trump continues to push border security, filling his main campaign promise, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum rejected the Trump administration attempt to send us American troops to Mexico.

“It is by belief in the convictions that you hold in the very fabric of the city that you represent, that you are able to retaliate against an administration which seems to lock up the city,” said Mamdani on Monday.

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist has joined the national democrats to criticize “Big and Beautiful Bill” by Trump, who, according to Mamdani, “will throw millions of New Yorkers from their health insurance, will write the SNAP benefits for the hungry and make even more difficult to afford to live in the most expensive city in America”.

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While the Republicans argue that the bill only reduces waste, fraud and abuses in the Medicaid program, according to the Congressional Budget Office, around 10 million additional people will not be insured by 2034 due to Trump’s megabill.

“While President Trump takes action to reduce violent crimes and make America again safe, comrade Mamdani is Fighter for bench Over 100 pounds. He is expected to spend more time in the gymnasium and less time defending criminals who want to injure the American people, “the White House spokesman Abigail Jackson told Fox News.