Mamdani rallies with Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez as Democrats close ranks around NYC mayoral nominee
Source: CNN Politics
Updated Oct 26, 2025, 10:33 PM ET
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2025, 12:03 PM ET
New York - As New Yorkers cast their ballots in the city’s mayoral race, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani sent a message to voters Sunday, asking them not to choose “settling for the lesser of two evils,” warning his supporters to not take his double-digit lead in the polls as a guarantee. “While Donald Trump’s donor billionaires think they have the money to buy this election, we have a movement of the masses,” Mamdani said to a roaring crowd.
Mamdani took the stage at a raucous rally alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, where thousands of people chanted Mamdani’s name and repeated in unison his signature proposals to freeze the rent, make buses fast and free, and provide universal child care.
The rally was part closing argument, part rallying of the troops ahead of the November 4 election, with Mamdani casting the race as a choice between democracy and oligarchy and Sanders and Ocasio Cortez touting Mamdani’s campaign as the vanguard of a progressive movement itching to push back on the second Trump administration.
“I’m talking to you, Donald Trump,” Ocasio-Cortez declared, saying that “in nine short days we will work our hearts out to elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani as the next mayor of the great city of New York.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/mamdani-sanders-aoc-rally-nyc