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New York Assemb. Zohran Mamdani’s marketing campaign is learning one other far-left determine’s speedy rise in metropolis politics – to not emulate it, however to keep away from the missteps that earned him the “America’s Worst Mayor” moniker, in response to a new report.
Mamdani, D-Astoria, has lots of parallels with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Whereas Johnson is just not an express member of the Democratic Socialists of America, as Mamdani is – in response to the group’s New York chapter – the 2 exude comparable progressive politics.
However, Johnson – regardless of holding workplace in a metropolis and not using a single Republican alderman – has earned reported single-digit approval numbers, following his rise from academics’ union organizer and Cook dinner County legislator to the Windy Metropolis’s mayorship.
These snafus are one thing Mamdani’s marketing campaign desires to keep away from, in response to NBC Information.
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Zohran Mamdani, left, Brandon Johnson, proper (Reuters)
NBC Information cited a supply near each Democrats’ camps, who mentioned Mamdani is “monitoring Johnson’s challenges” and as an alternative hopes to be extra like one other progressive with a much less nationally-infamous monitor document: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.
The supply instructed NBC Information Johnson “misplaced the plot” and advised Mamdani is extra “pragmatic” than the firebrand Chicagoan.
In the meantime, the Chicago Tribune editorial board has warned New York Metropolis voters in opposition to deciding on Mamdani, writing they’ve “seen this film earlier than and the ending is not fairly” – referring to Johnson.
Johnson has repeatedly clashed with reporters at press conferences, branded ICE officers as brokers of “terrorism,” and characterised President Donald Trump as a neoconfederate dictator.
When Trump referred to as Mamdani a communist, he responded that he’s getting used to having Trump criticize him.
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He instructed “Meet the Press” in a extra measured response in June that he’s a democratic socialist “in some ways impressed by the phrases of Dr. [Martin Luther] King from many years in the past.”
In an interview with NY1, Mamdani additionally highlighted how he’s solely two years youthful than Wu was when she started her personal mayoral marketing campaign, contrasting youthful Democrats like himself and the Beantown mayor with outdated guard like Andrew Cuomo.
“I believe what we see in our politics is a need to show the web page on the failed management that delivered us these crises,” he mentioned.
Like Johnson, Mamdani’s rise was equally sudden.
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He emigrated from Uganda at age 7, later had temporary stints with MoveOn and different activist teams, was elected assemblyman in 2020 and is now the frontrunner for America’s largest metropolis’s mayorship.
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has repeatedly referred to as for Mamdani’s critics to unify behind his Republican candidacy to avoid wasting New York Metropolis, in his phrases, whereas Cuomo stays within the race, albeit as an Unbiased.
Fox Information Digital reached out to Mamdani’s marketing campaign and Johnson’s workplace for remark.
Fox Information Digital’s Marc Tamasco contributed to this report.
