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Zohran Mamdani riding high despite New York Post’s daily demonization

Media | The Guardian · Adam Gabbatt · last updated

The media-savvy mayor’s popularity has only grown as the Murdoch-owned tabloid has thrown everything at him

The rightwing New York Post has attacked Zohran Mamdani as a communist, a hater of the police, an antisemite, a driver-away-of-billionaires, and as someone who isn’t very good at bench press.

But six months into his mayoralty, Mamdani has so far succeeded where most of his predecessors have failed: he has bested the city’s most powerful tabloid.

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