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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Zohran Mamdani riding high despite New York Post’s daily demonization

A New York Post front page shows a hammer and sickle design with the headline 'THE RED APPLE'
New York Post newspaper features a story for Zohran Mamdani's mayoral election win, with the communist hammer and sickle symbol, on 5 November 2025. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

The rightwing New York Post has attacked Zohran Mamdani as a communist, a hater of the police, an antisemite, a driver-away-of-billionaires, and as someone who isn’t very good at bench press.

But six months into his mayoralty, Mamdani has so far succeeded where most of his predecessors have failed: he has bested the city’s most powerful tabloid.

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