Sanders and Mamdani energize supporters at town hall as NYC mayor’s race enters final stretch
New York – American senator Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani joined the supporters in a Brooklyn town hall on Saturday, slamming President Donald Trump and stimulating their shared progressive message while Mamdani works to energize his base in the last weeks of the New York mayor’s race.
The crowd was friendly and the reception was almost entirely hot.
The idea of health care as a human right? Acclamations. The simple mention of Trump? Heavy hoots. The notion of oligarchy? Even more hoots. At one point, the crowd chanted the campaign slogans who helped Mamdani to win the democratic appointment in the race.
“We are going to freeze it?” Mamdani asked. The booming answer: “Rent!”
“Make buses quickly and?” He continued.
“Free!” Cried the public.
The Town Hall – Part of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour of Sanders, which attracted massive crowds in the red and blue states – has packaged an auditorium in Brooklyn while the Mamdani campaign barrels towards the November elections.
He faces former governor Andrew Cuomo and outgoing mayor Eric Adams, who both show up as self -employed, with the Republican Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels Crime Patrol Group.
Sanders, an independent who represents the Vermont, nicknamed Mamdani “the future of the Democratic Party”, while criticizing the best Democratic leaders in the state so as not to have approved it.
“I find it difficult to understand how the main Democrats of New York State Department do not support the Democratic candidate,” said Sanders.
The event, which seemed more Rah-Rah Lovefest than the usual caustic questioning of most political town hall, approached the end of a chaotic week in the race.
Adams spent the last days to postpone information that Trump intermediaries have evaluated his desire to abandon the competition to take a job from the federal government.
At the same time, Trump told journalists that he did not want Mamdani, a democratic socialist, the next mayor of the city, but thinks that he will win unless two of the three other major candidates leave the race. Trump also said that he thought Cuomo could be able to win in a head-to-face race, adding: “If you have more than one candidate against (Mamdani), he cannot be won.”
Edward Donlon, a 75 -year -old Mamdani supporter, who traveled Staten Island in Brooklyn a rainy day for the town hall, said that he would be “scandalous” for the president to get involved in the race.
“I want to have an honest politician,” said Donlon, a retired lawyer. “I would like to have someone you can believe what they say.”
Thanks to the town hall, Mamdani and Sanders, an independent who represents the Vermont, asked mainly friendly questions, although there was a noisy moment when a man was removed by security.
A few minutes after the opening remarks of Mamdani, a man with a shirt that read Cuba and made the scene approach and started to shout, saying that you are a communist.
“You know that something has changed when it is no longer enough to call us democratic socialists,” said Mamdani when man was abducted by security.
