Overview
- Early voting concludes today with the general election set for Nov. 4, and polls depict Zohran Mamdani as the favorite after his June primary rout of Andrew Cuomo.
- Republican Representatives Randy Fine and Andy Ogles have asked the Justice Department to scrutinize Mamdani’s 2018 naturalization, with Ogles urging denaturalization or deportation.
- Mamdani, who became a U.S. citizen by naturalization in 2018, says the attacks are false and emphasizes his membership in the Democratic Socialists of America.
- Core proposals include a rent freeze in stabilized units, 200,000 new affordable homes over ten years, free city buses, public grocery stores in each borough, universal childcare, and a Department of Community Safety.
- Born in Kampala in 1991 and raised in New York from age seven, he would be the city’s first Muslim mayor if he wins, drawing on a record of protest activism and digital-first organizing.