Overview
- At the National Action Network’s House of Justice, Rev. Al Sharpton denounced what he called ugly Islamophobia in the mayoral campaign and presented Zohran Mamdani as the candidate who consistently showed up.
- Sharpton brought on Rev. Travis Boyd, whose mother was killed on 9/11, and Boyd told the crowd he plans to vote for Mamdani.
- Reporting describes Mamdani as the frontrunner with three days to go, while a newly released poll indicates Andrew Cuomo is narrowing the gap.
- The discourse targeting Mamdani has included a radio claim that he would be cheering another 9/11 and criticism of his meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj.
- Mamdani used the event to criticize President Donald Trump over what he called cuts to welfare programs, drawing an analogy to the Reconstruction-era Freedmen’s Bureau.