Almost 1 in 10 voters who backed Zohran Mamdani in last month’s New York City mayoral election also cast their ballot for Donald Trump a year earlier, a surprising NBC News exit poll has revealed.
The mayor-elect, 34, campaigned on an affordability platform and pledged rent freezes, free bus travel and community-owned grocery stores and attracted a torrent of alarmist messaging from the president’s MAGA allies. That did not deter 9 percent of those who backed Trump over Kamala Harris to support him, however, NBC reports.