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Three days before the New York mayoral election, former president Barack Obama called frontrunner Zohran Mamdani to offer his support.
The 64-year-old Democrat offered himself as a “resonance partner”. to mom, a democratic socialist who continues to lead the race in polls.
“Zohran Mamdani appreciated President Obama’s words of support and his conversation about the importance of… new kind of politics to our city,” Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec told Fox News Digital.
Mamdani’s main opponents are the former governor of New York. Andrew Cuomowho is running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
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Three days before the New York mayoral election, former President Barack Obama called leading candidate Zohran Mamdani to offer his support. (Neil Constantine/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Sliwa’s campaign told Fox News Digital that she had no comment on the call.
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The phone call between Mamdani and Obama came on the same day that Obama was campaigning in Virginia Abigail Spanberger and in New Jersey for Mikie Sherrill. Both Democrats are fighting a tight gubernatorial race in their respective states.
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New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the front-runner in Tuesday’s election. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
Both women are Democratic gubernatorial candidates.
“Your campaign was impressive to watch,” Obama told Mamdani in the 30-minute private conversation, according to The New York Times, which cited two people familiar with the conversation.
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Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger meets with former President Barack Obama during a campaign rally in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Obama has not officially endorsed Mamdani After a promise not to interfere in local elections, the newspaper reported, adding that it was the second call between the two men since the Democratic primary.
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Obama spoke to Mamdani as did some establishment Democrats, like the New York senator. Chuck Schumerhave kept their distance from the progressive leader.