President Donald Trump calls him a “communist.” His critics say he wants to refund the police. Zohran Mamdani claims he is the man trying to make New York City more affordable.
Mam ticks The weather rise of the Candidate Because the mayor of New York has placed his past and present policy position under careful scrutiny. If he was elected, he would be City’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor. He will be the city’s most liberal mayor of a generation.
But as they tried to broaden their support ahead of the November election, state lawmakers moved more to the centre on certain issues.
Mamdani Opponents – two Democrats, former Governor Andrew Cuomo and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, and Republican Curtis Swa, are casting themselves as a moderate replacement for the 33-year-old.
Some of New York’s top Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, are slow to support Mamdani. A small number of people, including the state Democratic chairman and some members of the suburbs of Congress, said they wouldn’t support him. But more notable names these days, including the government, have thrown weight behind him. Kathy Hochul The top two legislative leaders in the state.
This is where he actually stands:
He is not a communist, he is a democratic socialist
Trump and other enemies continue to call Mamdani a Communist, but he identifies him as a democratic socialist. He believes that governments should play a role in reducing economic disparities, but he does not defend the communist system where property is collectively owned.
Mamdani is funding proposals that advocate for raising taxes on the wealthy people and claim that he would make the city more affordable. This includes free bus service, universal child care, and his signature issues. The rent freeze for rent-regulated apartments for one million people in cities is increasing. Opponents say that a freeze on rent would hurt landowners.
Perhaps the “communist” label has not appeared anywhere in relation to Mamdani’s proposal to establish a city-run pilot program for grocery stores. Billionaire John Cassimatidis owns grocery chain grist and Dagostino supermarket The program said “Take down the road towards the Pan line of the former Soviet Union.”
In an interview with The Bulwark, Mamdani assembled five stores offerings to sell products at wholesale prices as a modest experiment. He said if that didn’t work, “c’est la vie, that idea was wrong.”
He also faced criticism for his comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying he “doesn’t think there are billionaires” just around the world economically. However, Mamdani, as mayor, said he is happy to work with the billionaires to solve the city’s problems.
He no longer supports police refunds
After killing George Floyd in Minnesota in 2020, Mamdani was one of many New York Democrats defending him. Greatly reduces the police department’s budgetand frequently railing against police brutality.
In one social media post, Mamdani called the department “a major threat to racist, anti-Quer and public safety.” In another, Mamdani wrote in a post sharing a video from NYPD Pummeling a man who argued with a police officer, “I will pay this fraudulent agent back.”
During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani has distanced himself from these previous calls to reduce funding for the department, saying he doesn’t represent his current agenda. Mamdani said that it will not only maintain staffing levels in the NYPD, but will also create a new “Community Safety Bureau” that will deploy mental health care teams rather than armed officers to handle specific emergency calls involving people involved in a psychiatric crisis.
And he tempered the overall rhetoric about law enforcement. In a recent New York Times interview, he replied “Yes” when asked if he owed the officers to apologise to departmental racists, saying that the 2020 comments were made “at the pinnacle of frustration.”
Mamdani’s enemies were skeptical of his shift. Former police captain Adams says Mamdani has changed his position on law enforcement. Cuomo tells Mamdani is flip-floping and doesn’t clearly portray the voters who he really is.
He criticizes Israel and defends Palestine civil rights
Mamdani is a defender of the voices of Palestine civil rights and accused the Israeli government of committing genocide in Gaza.
He supported Israel’s economic boycott and promised that if Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited New York City, he would do so. Respect the warrant Netanyahu was arrested for a war crime by the International Criminal Court. The United States is not a member of the court and denies Israel is engaged in genocide and war crimes.
Mamdani repeatedly condemned Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, calling the 1,200 massacres of extremist groups “deplorable.” He also said that although he believes Israel has a right to exist, there is no hierarchy that supports Jewish citizens more than others.
It does not soften critics who characterize such condemnations of Israeli policy as anti-Semitics.
Before the primary, Mamdani was asked if he would deny the phrase “globalize the intifadas.” At the time, Mamdani described it as reflecting “a desperate desire and equal rights for equality to rise up for Palestinian human rights.”
But Mamdani, who has not adopted the phrase during the campaign, says that now it discourages others from using the slogan.
Is he connected to the DSA?
Mamdani is a member of New York City, a national branch of American democratic socialists, and is an activist group that obtains mandatory prison time for several types of crimes between universal healthcare systems, immigration rights, tuition-free higher education, national rent regulations, 32 hours of work, and other issues.
Cuomo, Adams and Sliwa have made all the light corns up for Mamdani for their relationship with the group. Mamdani says he runs on his own distinct platform, not on DSA. And being part of a group doesn’t mean you agree to all of those goals.
A reporter asked about his previous support Decriminalization of prostitutionMamdani did not give a direct answer. I said: “What I want to do is see how the previous administration dealt with this issue,” refers to former Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose arrests for related charges have declined.
