‘We have the people’: Bernie Sanders campaigns with Zohran Mamdani as New York mayoral race enters final stretch | New York

Zohran Mamdani, the pioneer of the Mayor of New York and Democratic candidate, joined the Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in a town hall in Brooklyn on Saturday evening, where the two will fight the increasing oligarchic control in the United States and how to fight him.

The event, which was held at Sanders’ Alma Mater Brooklyn College, drew a audience of approximately 1,700 people. Mamdani and Sanders hosted the municipal building within the scope of Sanders’ fighting oligarchy tour, which includes rallies in 20 states. Throughout the tour, the Senator actively supports and hires progressive candidates.

Ajifanta Marenah, Vice President of New York Muslim Democratic Club, spoke to Guardian before the event, said, “Zohran enters the resonance with us because it directly affects our communities”.

“We want a government that represents working people and low -income people. A government to fight for housing, justice and migration… We do not want a mayor who will only work to represent billionaires.”

In the Auditorium, Mamdani and Sanders were greeted with noise while walking on the stage, students and old people standing and cheering. Mamdani opened his address by condemning the decision of New York City University. dismiss Four professors who say they were expelled for anti -war Palestinian solidarity. Immediately the crowd started an energetic hymn: “Free, Free Palestine!”

Mamdani, who is there supported by a lot of celebrities and deputies “The New York City Donald is not sold to the billionaires of the New York City Donald Trump because it turned into crowded applause, including Cynthia Nixon and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

He condemned what he called “attacking people working people” throughout the country. Before Mamdani returned to Sanders and saying, “This is a fight that we have made clear that it is a city where we will choose our name.

The 33 -year -old democratic socialist, who is very preferred by the advancing, promised to freeze rent prices, increase the housing and increase the taxes to the richest 1%of New York.

Reflecting similar feelings, Sanders greeted Mamdani’s campaign: “The ugly 30 -second TV ads. A base movement.” The campaign described the campaign as a test case as a test case of testing whether democracy is still valid, as it pointed to Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk.

“What you see right now is an oligarchy with enormous economic power and political power in both political parties…[and] They are afraid that Mr. Mamdani will become an example of what could happen all over the country.

“What we’re going to say here tonight, hell with hell. We will take you!” He continued by lifting the crowd.

The Senator also drew attention to the quiet response of the mainstream and central democrats, including the New York Province, which was slow to embrace Mamdani and its progressive policies.

“I find it hard to understand how the great democratic leaders of the New York province do not support the democratic island, Sand Sanders said. “If a candidate starts at 2% in the surveys, if he receives 50,000 volunteers, creates a tremendous excitement, and includes young people in the political process, if they vote for non -traditional voters, democratic leaders would jump up and down!”

“We have another fight, which is the future of the Democratic Party, Sanders Added Sanders, business owners in New York and wealthy donors donation collection rally Against Mamdani, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and two democrats who supported the current Mayor of New York Adams.

Mamdani and Sanders received a handful of questions from the crowd, including how Mamdani plans to defend the immigrant communities attacked by the Trump administration.

“One of the most important things we can do here in New York is to start giving legal representation to New Yorks in custody,” he said. “Because we will do everything we can to increase the fund tens of millions of dollars, to scale this program, to ensure that immigrant New York people do not live in fear.”

Sanders came in, called masked raids by federal agents in the immigrant communities as “unable to say” and “disgusting”.

With the increasing concerns about Trump’s national guard troops in New York, Mamdani answered a question about what will do if such deployment takes place: “The first thing is that Donald Trump will not do this because something is illegal.

“The partnership is critical to fighting Donald Trump. Can you imagine that Andrew Cuomo is working together? [New York attorney general Letitia] James… Is he fighting against distribution? Why would Donald Trump fight him right now? “

Saturday’s event, New York Mayor Eric Adams’ın closely watched the Mayor’s plan to stay again in confirmation of the plan was followed shortly after. Adams’s decision came reports As Trump claimed encourage him Leaving the race to help Cuomo defeat Mamdani.

Mamdani emphasized the need to mobilize before the elections of November, saying that it aims to scale the record -breaking 52,000 volunteers gathered behind the campaign to 90,000 volunteers this autumn this autumn.

While Mamdani and Sanders were preparing to appear on the stage, Sanders pointed to the American oligarchy by addressing the crowd for the last time and said, “They have richness. He has power. You know what we get? You have people.”