Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday endorsed socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the race for City Hall.
“We don’t just need Zohran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas, or because they can be achieved,” de Blasio said in a New York Daily News op-ed as he threw his support behind the frontrunner.
“We need him because in his heart and in his bones he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.”
The ex-mayor, who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, pointed to Mamdani’s progressive push — including rent freezes, free child care and free city buses.
“Yet, though many New Yorkers agree with him — many others are skeptical. Still others have lost faith in the city government’s ability to not only talk, but deliver. They want to know one fundamental truth: can it be done?” he wrote.
“I can say definitely — and I know better than anyone — that the answer is yes.”
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