Under legal attack from President Donald Trump, New York's state Attorney General Letitia James has endorsed 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor of New York City.
In a barnstorming speech at a mayoral rally in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on Monday night, James struck a defiant tone as she praised Mamdani as a "courageous" leader who would rally New Yorkers to resist Trump and "fight for a better future".