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Vermont senator Bernie Sanders announced Tuesday that he is endorsing fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor, giving the 33-year-old assemblymember another boost in his challenge to front-runner Andrew Cuomo.
In a statement, Sanders said Mamdani is running “an inspirational grassroots campaign” backed by small-dollar donors and praised his plan to pay for his platform of new affordable housing and free buses through an increased tax on the wealthy and corporations, a staple of the senator’s own political ideology. Sanders notably did not endorse in the 2021 primary and only backed Bill de Blasio during his reelection bid in 2017.
“At this pivotal and dangerous moment in American history, status-quo politics is not good enough. We need the kind of visionary leadership that Zohran is providing in this campaign. In my view, Zohran Mamdani is the best choice for mayor of New York City,” he said.
Mamdani acknowledged Sanders’s support on social media, writing that the veteran progressive senator “has been the single most influential political figure in my life.”
“As mayor, I will strive to live up to his example by fighting for the working class every day and hopefully make Brooklyn’s own proud,” he said.
Speculation about Sanders’s plans to endorse in the race grew after Mamdani received the support of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a longtime friend and ally of Sanders. The two recently embarked on the cross-country Fighting Oligarchy tour together, holding massive rallies in Republican strongholds in an effort to harness voters’ growing opposition to Trump between election years. Our Revolution, the progressive political organization founded by Sanders during his 2016 presidential bid, also announced its own endorsement in the primary, backing Mamdani and Comptroller Brad Lander, who have both cross-endorsed each other in the ranked-choice race.
It’s not yet clear if Sanders will join Mamdani on the campaign trail in the waning days of the race. A 2019 rally for Sanders’s presidential campaign with Ocasio-Cortez drew a reported 26,000 attendees to Queensbridge Park. Over the weekend, Mamdani rallied with the congresswoman at Terminal 5 in Manhattan, attracting thousands of supporters to the venue.
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What a fucking snake lmao. Waited right until the last moment, once he’s already polling close to Cuomo.
He’s learning
I think Mamdani’s gonna win
I think so as well. He should! New York City deserves a good mayor. I think it really sets the tone too, whoever wins, is like a forecast for the next few cycles. The fact that Mamdani was so close in the polls and is now leading is an excellent sign. He’s also winning with youth and with white voters overall. I expect a win from Mamdani to really rattle Democrat establishment.
Things that rattle the democratic establishment are not allowed.
CIA performing last second interception on Mamdani in 3, 2, 1…
How do I apply to be part of his security detail? I would die for him if necessary
I really hope so, but he’s not winning on any of the polls that have been conducted recently, not even the ones sponsored by him/the DREAM campaign
Finally he does something useful.
Said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m going to have a good laugh hatereading all the inevitable “the progressive case to vote Republican, just this once.” NYT articles.
Dudes more left than Bernie, critical support
Sanders doesn’t seem interested in helping people in those early stages though, pretty useless
fuck bernie sanders, give me back the money you gave to the removed joe biden
im STILL getting blasted by DNC fucks to this day
Don’t care. Electoralism is a fuck. He can still turn and face the
Ok
Zohran has really impressed me across the board. It’s wild he’s only 33.
I’m excited for Mayor Mamdani to mobilize The People’s Safety Cadre to engage in urban guerilla warfare with the NYPD.
Fuck off bernie
this is always the correct response
Is he trying to tank his campaign?
people still love bernie en masse. most people aren’t leftists looking at everything through a marxist or anti imperialist lens so to them he’s the old guy that wants to raise wages and give people healthcare
i wish more people wanted more for the world than that but thats where we’re at
I don’t think this tanks his campaign. Among “progressive” liberals, Burnie still has large pull.
It’s obvious from the huge crowds he and AOC were pulling recently. We commies aren’t quite the majority of the “left” here in the US yet. But hopefully if people like this guy can win it will pull the Overton Window back to the left a bit and make it more possible in the future.
He calls himself a “Democratic Socialist”, and the media has been interrogating him over it. It’s good and definitely pushing the window to the left.
It’s CAPTURING to the left to incorporate to the right. How are people still confused about this?
Yeah I feel the same way about his bill against war with Iran
Like yeah, fuck Bernie for all of his spineless cuckery but also if this convinces even a few normie libs to
Zohran or to oppose the war then that’s a good thingIn my assessment, Zohran is also better on Israel than Bernie, too. In so many words, Zohran basically said he would “comply with international law” if Netanyahu came to NYC, implying he’d have him arrested.
That’d be so fucking cool if it happened
Netanyahu came to NYC, implying he’d have him arrested.
Good luck with that. How old are you?
I don’t see what my age has to do with this. Do I think he’s going to get the IOF light to arrest Benny boy? No, but, it is what Mamdani implied and it is how rags like the NYPost and the Jerusalem Post have interpreted his answer. If there are electorates who align with Palestine, his position is in alignment with them based on his other positions regarding Israel.
As I’ve stated, he calls it what it is, a genocide, something Burnie refuses to do. That puts him left of Burnie. That’s going to win him votes.
Saying is one thing, doing is another, obviously. NYC is a very important mayoral race electorally. So it’s interesting that he’s doing as well as he is.
More liberal zionist apologia.
Ignore the changing conditions, comrade. It’s like Lenin said “Fuck electoralism!” Right?
Even if only a fairly large minority of the industrial workers, and not “millions” and “legions”, follow the lead of the Catholic clergy—and a similar minority of rural workers follow the landowners and kulaks (Grossbauern)—it undoubtedly signifies that parliamentarianism in Germany has not yet politically outlived itself, that participation in parliamentary elections and in the struggle on the parliamentary rostrum is obligatory on the party of the revolutionary proletariat specifically for the purpose of educating the backward strata of its own class, and for the purpose of awakening and enlightening the undeveloped, downtrodden and ignorant rural masses. Whilst you lack the strength to do away with bourgeois parliaments and every other type of reactionary institution, you must work within them because it is there that you will still find workers who are duped by the priests and stultified by the conditions of rural life; otherwise you risk turning into nothing but windbags.
I’m simply engaging in the understanding of electoral politics. I’m not voting in the NYC Mayoral race. I’m not even advocating people do that. I’m saying, a guy who the JP and the NYP call “antisemitic” is polling better than the knownremoved and Israel lover Andrew Cuomo in Little Tel Aviv. He was polling better than Cuomo before an endorsement from Sanders.
Progressivism is “left” anti-communism.
Yes. What’s your point?
I made my point. Whats with the liberal apologia?
You didn’t, you stated a truism, care to add more? I’m analyzing liberal electoralism, for a mayoral candidate, in the largest city in the country. That’s not “apologia”. Its easily the most consequential election this year, and has implications for future electoral activities. Its worth understanding, even if you’re not participating.
yeah, I don’t think amerikkka would allow me to participate in your elections. If you think bourgeois electoralism for municipal positions within an advanced capitalist empire that’s threatening the world with nuclear war at this very second, actually matters then you really need to read some theory. Liberal electoral reformism is baby brained and ahistorical.
How’s the revolution going in your country comrade?
If anything he’s trying to join the winning team at the last minute
I think the argument is persuasive that he (and AOC) waited so long for their endorsements was to be fresh when most people check-in
The week before an election is the most important time. A late endorsement is often better because people will actually remember and be paying attention the election.
You think this doesn’t help Mamdani?
Sorry, I was forgetting that most people don’t care about genocide and the like. As some commenters have sagely pointed out.
Even if they do I assume Mamdani isn’t any less supportive or critical of israel than bernie so his endorsement won’t affect him on that front
Socdems endorsing socdems.
Spoiler: They both believe Israel has a right to exist 🤮
He waited till the last moment when polls showed there’s a chance he might win lol. Pure opportunism.
Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.
ok I’m gonna have to call you to elaborate on that one. Maybe my brain isn’t functioning this morning (first day back from pto) but trying to ask myself “how could social democracy be the moderate wing of facism” is haven’t the same effect as asking myself “if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound?”
“There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.”
J.V Stalin ~ Concerning the international situation.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/09/20.htm
He doesn’t according to The Jerusalem Post, or the NY Post.
New York mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani aligns with antisemitism | The Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-857512
Mamdani still won’t say Israel has a right to exist — sparking quick backlash from Cuomo at debate https://nypost.com/2025/06/04/us-news/zohran-mamdani-still-wont-answer-if-israel-has-a-right-to-exists-jewish-state-and-faces-quick-backlash-from-andrew-cuomo-during-debate/
“I believe Israel has a right to exist,” Mamdani said, to which the moderator replied, “As a Jewish state?”
“As a state with equal rights,” he replied.
Israel existing as a state with equal rights would be an Israel in name only. I’m not sure why you’re taking the Zionist position on his stance on Israel.
Mamdani still won’t say Israel has a right to exist
He literally said exactly that it in a televised mayoral debate.
Israel existing as a state with equal rights would be an Israel in name only. I’m not sure why you taking the Zionist position on his stance on Israel.
Get the fuck out of here with that. If you believe that you’re engaging in fascist apologia.
As I already stated elswhere this thread:
Israel is the name of the murder machine that haunts the land. Its fucking called Palestine. It MATTERS that the genocidal fascists are purged from the land they have STOLEN and tried to culturally ERASE. The zionists cannot be allowed to continue their legacy of theft and occupation when this ends.
Shitrael has NO RIGHT TO EXIST in any form, ever again, in the same way and for the same reason as the Nazis.
He responded to a stupid gotcha question with a clever gotcha answer, not what he really believes
He supports BDS which means if elected he could potentially hurt piSSrael economically in a very bad way and I see no downside to supporting him
You’re right that
has no right to exist but no one here disagrees with you on thatZohran’s answer doesn’t matter because even if elected he only has control of NYC not any other part of NY let alone
so he has no say in what happens when the apartheid ends and I guarantee he’d prefer it be Palestine he just isn’t taking the bait from Cuomo and the media to make the election about thisYou’re engaging in liberal apologia for a person who just said ‘I think Isreal has a right to exist’.
Are you paying attention right now? Tel Aviv is on fire. The ENTIRE WORLD IS ON THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR. The zionist entity as at it’s end, but they’re escalating their genocide in Gaza and turning the entire city into a combat zone right now. Saying the Nazis have a right to exist is cause for an immediate trip to the gulag. Death to Shitrael. Shove your liberal zionist apologia completely up your fucking ass.
This is a case of “hate the game, not the player”. Out of context, what you’re saying is correct, nobody should say “israel has a right to exist”. In context, lay off him, this is wrecker behavior. You’re shitting on the only Muslim candidate in this election (and the only one with a history of supporting Palestine) for not falling into the obvious trap that an aggressive and hostile media class tried to berate him into. Answering “no” would have been just falling for the trap and would have been a stupid thing to do. They already hate him because he supports Palestine. It would have been cool if he said “death 2 isnt’real, death 2 ameriKKKa, unlimited genocide upon the first world” but it would also have been stupid to torch his entire political campaign just to take the bait.
I didn’t like his answer either but he gave the answer a politician in his position has to give and he still refused to play along. They’ll call him antisemitic anyway, but he didn’t give them a soundbite to play over and over again to smear him with. Have you dealt with manipulative snakes before? When they try to get you to hang yourself, you don’t help them.
I’m not gonna ask you to dox yourself but if you don’t live in NY I don’t really care about your opinion here
Most of the time the western left especially here in
deserves every one of the criticisms you’ve made and more but this is not one of those casesThere’s a very short list of politicians who aren’t complete scum in this state
Now you can argue against the libs and zionists in your head like Don Quixote and call me both of those for participating in electoralism at any level but on the other hand my state representative is moving forward on legislation that will make our local power company state owned and control the prices so I’m gonna go with her
Sure, opposing tacit support for Zionazi occupation is chasing imaginary dragons. Is the revolutionary bar so high, or are you just that pathetic? Have you taken a look at whats going on right now? Israel is being destroyed as we speak. We’re on the edge of global nuclear war. Just because you’re too spineless to draw a line doesn’t make you pragmatic, it makes you an amerikkkan.
Mamdani said as a non apartheid state, which would effectively be a Palestinian state.
Why are you playing to the media narrative that it matters what the mayor of New York City thinks about Israel?
It’s functionally not true anyway. Israel existing “as a state with equal rights for all of its citizens” (as he stated int he debate) is just a regular country with a cringe flag and name. If it provides equal rights for all of its citizens, who gives a shit what it’s called?
Why are you playing to the media narrative that it matters what the mayor of New York City thinks about Israel?
I agree. It absolutely doesn’t matter.
It’s functionally not true anyway. Israel existing “as a state with equal rights for all of its citizens” (as he stated int he debate) is just a regular country with a cringe flag and name. If it provides equal rights for all of its citizens, who gives a shit what it’s called?
No. I GIVE A SHIT. Israel is the name of the murder machine that haunts the land. Its fucking called Palestine. It MATTERS that the genocidal fascists are purged from the land they have STOLEN and tried to culturally ERASE. The zionists cannot be allowed to continue their legacy of theft and occupation when this ends.
Shitrael has NO RIGHT TO EXIST in any form, ever again, in the same way and for the same reason as the Nazis.
Do you live in Palestine?
A kiss of death from Zio-Bernard.
Na progressive liberals love Burnie. This is good for Mamdani, who is to the left of Sanders.
Left of Bernie is a pretty low bar. The shitlibs were always going to vote for Zorhan, it is the radlibs he was hoping to gaslight into actually voting. A Zio-Bernard endorsement may make them question that choice and stay home, since they are still butt hurt by Bernard’s 2016 and 2020 betrayal.
Left of Burnie is a low bar in some Euro or Nordic context. Its a high bar for American electoral politics. I don’t think radlibs make up a consequential amount of the electorate. Regardless, he has indicated he would “follow international law” if Netanyahu was to go to NYC. He calls what’s happening in Palestine a Genocide and defends his use of the term. The list goes on. I don’t think he’s loosing anyone who already wasn’t disillusioned with electoral politics.
Its a high bar for American electoral politics
its a fucking pole vault in NYC
Seriously, every mayor of NYC in my lifetime was a conservative piece of shit except DeBlasio and he was a spineless lib who didn’t go anywhere near far enough on anything
For real. He shouldn’t be polling as well as he is, yet here we are.
Ngl nyc is only place ive lived and seen socialists calling themselves such organizing and canvassing (like back even when i thought it was a scary word )
For mayor? I don’t know enough about who else was running in previous mayoral elections. I know AOC gets elected under the “socialist” designation.
He’s got his media on lock but let’s face it, when was the last time a mayoral candidate promised to do good things actively instead of let bad things happen drip drip? Like the chuds might hate him for being a damn liberal and a communist but if he wins he’ll freeze their rent soooo
LMAO
Amerikkkan “tankies” are a joke.
I’m not sure what you expect from a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Regardless, he is the most progressive candidate, probably ever, for NYC mayor. If he is elected, its going to have an impact on other regional elections. It would represent a rejection of establishment Democrats in the largest city in the country. Its hard to ignore.
Really? More liberal apologia? Can you fucking stop already?
These elections, comrade, change the conditions under which we have to live and operate, it is in our best interest to understand the changing landscape within electoral politics.
LOL, thanks comrade Chomsky.
He’s seemingly committed to improving people’s material conditions. Who gives a shit if he’s not going to press the communism button? If leftist politics are allowed to take root in people’s minds, future organizing and fundraising becomes easier. Rejecting him out of hand because he’s not a maoist or utopian ultra is dumb.
Well it made for good TV didn’t it?
