Overview
- Rapaport declared his plan in a Jan. 1 Instagram video and reiterated it on his Jan. 5 I Am Rapaport podcast, repeatedly referring to himself as “Mayor Rapaport.”
- He framed the prospective run as an effort to replace Zohran Mamdani, calling the newly inaugurated mayor “up to no good” and using crude nicknames and insults.
- He told listeners he is “taking it as far as I can” and invited supporters to send resumes to help prepare for a 2029 effort.
- Reporting notes no formal campaign paperwork or visible infrastructure for a 2029 run, and the mayor’s office had not provided a substantive response in the cited coverage.
- Mamdani won the November 2025 election and took office Jan. 1, and Rapaport’s long-running criticism has focused largely on the mayor’s past statements about Israel.