NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani supporters dismiss ‘communist’ label

Since Zohran Mamdani’s primary upset earlier this summer, the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee has been branded a “communist” by President Donald Trump. 

Mamdani supporters, who spoke to Fox News Digital at a canvass launch in Prospect Park on Sunday, dismissed the term, arguing that his primary win represented more than arbitrary labels. 

“It’s not necessarily communism that won the New York City primary, but the vision that he’s delivering for a more affordable New York,” Nina, a door-knocker wearing an “Educators for Zohran” T-shirt, said. “That’s what people voted for, and that’s what he won on, and that’s what he’s going to win on.”

Mamdani is a self-described Democratic socialist who has been endorsed by progressive leaders, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Trump was quick to label him a “100% Communist Lunatic” after Mamdani declared victory in June. 

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Perry, another Brooklyn canvasser, flipped the script on Trump’s nickname for Mamdani, telling Fox News Digital to “look at the people who are saying he can’t do it or who are calling him a socialist or communist.”

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Bridget, a New York City teacher, and Perry both shook their heads in disagreement when asked if those labels worry them. 

“It’s not about ideology,” Nicholas, a Mamdani supporter who volunteered in Prospect Park on Sunday for the campaign’s canvass launch, said. “It’s not trying to demonize these terms, communism and socialism, which, quite frankly, I think the American public does not have a very good idea of what those terms exactly mean.”

Nicholas said Mamdani’s campaign is “much bigger than that.”

Bridget, a Zohran Mamdani canvasser, sported an “Educators for Zohran” T-shirt alongside a group of fellow teachers in Prospect Park on Sunday.  (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)

Among the few dozen supporters who attended the canvass launch, many were teachers. 

“I want a mayor who’s going to stand up for students,” Bridget said, telling Fox News Digital that it’s critical New York City has a mayor who is “going to fight against the Trump administration for the…