New York (AP) – The US Senator Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani gathered on Saturday in a town hall in Brooklyn. He beat President Donald Trump and increased her common message when Mamdani energized his basis for the mayor of the New York City Mayor in the last few weeks.
The crowd was amiable and the reception was almost very balmy.
The idea of ​​health care as human law? Cheers. The mere mention of Trump? Heavy Böfe. The idea of ​​an oligarchy? Even more boos. At some point the crowd sang about the campaign slogans, the Mamdani helped to win democratic nomination in the race.
“Will we freeze that?” Asked Mamdani. The booming answer: “Rent!”
“Do buses fast and?” He continued.
“Free!,” The audience screamed.
The town hall -part of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, which has drawn massive crowds in red and blue states, packed an auditorium in Brookly in the direction of the November elections.
He bumped against the former governor Andrew Cuomo and the incumbent mayor Eric Adams, who both worked as an independent, together with the Republican Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels Crime Patrol Group.
Sanders, an independent who represents Vermont, called Mamdani “the future of the Democratic Party”, while criticizing the highest democratic leaders of the state because he did not support him.
“It is difficult for me to understand how the great democratic leaders of the state in New York do not support the democratic candidates,” said Sanders.
The event, the more RAH-RAH love festival than the usual caustic survey of most political town halls, came in the race towards the end of a tumultuous week.
Adams have spent the last few days to ward off that Trump broker has evaluated his willingness to cancel the competition in order to take on a job with the federal government.
At the same time, Trump reported reporters that he does not want Mamdani, a democratic socialist, the next mayor of the city, but believes that he will not win unless two of the other three massive candidates leave the race. Trump also said that he thinks Cuomo could win in a single race and added: “If you have more than one candidate who runs against (Mamdani), it cannot be won.”
Edward Donlon, a 75-year-old Mamdani supporter who moved to Brooklyn on a rainy day for the town hall from Staten Island to Brooklyn, said that it was “outrageous” for the president to get involved in the race.
“I want to have an honest politician,” said Donlon, a retired lawyer. “I want to have someone you can believe what you say.”
Through the town hall, Mamdani and Sanders, an independent who represents Vermont, mostly asked amiable questions, although there was a scratchy moment when a man was removed from security.
Just a few minutes after Mamdani’s opening speech, a man with a shirt approached with reading Cuba and approached a Cuban flag of the stage and started screaming.
“You know that something has changed if it is not enough to call us democratic socialists more,” said Mamdani when the man was removed.
