Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders gather together in Brooklyn against the oligarchy

The Democratic Socialists, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., And the candidate for the Democrat Town Hall of New York, Zohran Mamdani, joins forces on Saturday to fight against the oligarchy in the country’s financial capital.

“It is an honor to welcome Senator Sanders in New York while we are fighting the greed of companies, billionaires and corrupt politicians responsible for the affordability crisis,” said Mamdani in a statement before the “oligarchy” event to fight in Brooklyn.

Mamdani’s primary victory in June shocked not only the political establishment, but the real estate and business The leaders who drive the economy of New York. With an affordable central price of Sanders and Mamdani platforms, the two were both the subject of the inequality of American wealth.

“While the Oligarchs and Donald Trump are trying to place their thumbs on the scale of this election, we focus on the laser on New Yorkers who have built this city, call it at home and deserve a leader who will give dignity for all,” said Mamdani, referring to the reports of the New York Times who predicted that President Donald Times Mamdani.

Trump nicknamed Mamdani a “100% communist madman”.

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New York Democrat mayor’s candidate Zohran Mamdani spoke with supporters during a Canvass launch event at Prospect Park on August 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s investigation concerning the report that Trump discussed offering the outgoing mayor Eric Adams a position in the Trump administration so that he abandoned the race and injured the Mamdani electoral ratings. Meanwhile, Trump and former governor Andrew Cuomo denied having discussed how to defeat Mamdani in November.

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Before the town hall of Brooklyn, the two progressive leaders plan to walk alongside the members of the Union during the labor party parade in Manhattan on Saturday morning.

After making the head of the annual breakfast of the New Hampshire AFL-CIO Labor Day on Monday, Sanders told Fox News Digital that Trump “heads us for authoritarianism, to more inequalities in income and wealth and to make the planet even more dangerous”.

“No, billionaires should not be able to get away with it without paying their fair share of taxes while workers are, in many cases, overloaded,” said Sanders, urging Americans to unite against Trump and deliver for more than the first 1%.

Zohran Mamdani spoke with journalists by leaving the building of the Dirksen Senate office on July 16, 2025. (Hoto by Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)

Sanders and Mamdani met in July When the hope of mayor visited the national capital for a breakfast of the digital campaign organized by the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y.

Mamdani called Sanders “Brooklyn from start to finish” and said it was an honor to meet “one of my heroes”, while Sanders said he was “deeply impressed by the basic campaign he directs”.

Sanders was an early endorship of the Mamdani main campaign, alongside Ocasio-Cortez. The duo sparked a considerable buzz on the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour early this year, triggering thousands of democrats during gatherings through the United States which found themselves without a clear party leader from devastating losses from the bottom of the ballot in 2024.

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

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.

The Mamdani campaign platform promises progressive ideas such as rent gels, 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%. Many of these ideas comply with the democratic socialist program that Sanders has been pushing for years.

“At a time of massive and growing inequality of income and wealth, we are building a strong basic movement to face the billionaire class and the greed of businesses,” Sanders said in a statement before the Town Hall of Brooklyn.

Sanders said that “oligarques” – or wealthy business leaders having a political influence – “will know democracy” and will not hesitate to “buy elections”.

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., And the classification member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, arrived for a confirmation audience on July 16, 2025. (Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“But candidates who remain boldly with the working class can – and will beat them – when we hold together, we can overcome authoritarianism and create an economy that works for all our people, not just a few privileged,” said the Senator of Vermont and former presidential candidate.

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The Sanders campaign has praised more than 300,000 people in 34 gatherings in 20 states since the launch of its “Fighting Oligarchy” tour this year.

Fox News Digital contacted the Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, Cuomo and Adams to comment on the Mamdani event with Sanders but did not immediately receive any answers.

Diana Stacy of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.