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on Tue Sep 2 18:05:37 2025
NY Poast
Ex-NYC mayor endorses Zohran Mamdani for City Hall: ‘He has the right ideas’Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday endorsed socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the race for City Hall — claiming the progressive’s “bold, sweeping” agenda will save the Big Apple.
“We don’t just need Zohran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas, or because they can be achieved,” de Blasio said in a New York Daily News op-ed as he threw his support behind the front-runner.
“We need him because in his heart and in his bones he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.”
The ex-mayor, who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, insisted Mamdani’s promise for affordability — including rent freezes, free child care and free city buses — was the reason he cinched the June Democratic primary.
“Yet, though many New Yorkers agree with him — many others are skeptical. Still others have lost faith in the city government’s ability to not only talk, but deliver. They want to know one fundamental truth: can it be done?” he wrote.
De Blasio went on to tout his own time in City Hall, saying critics had ripped his policies — including affordable housing, paid sick days and pre-K for all — as “recklessly idealistic.”
“Often, these critiques were lodged by politicians and special interest groups who had a vested interest in maintaining the broken status quo. In short, labeling my agenda as infeasible masked their true problem with it: an unwillingness to cede power and opportunity to working people,” he wrote.
“In 2025, the same overheated condemnations yield the same result as in 2013: not only does the public want what Mamdani is proposing, it actually all can be done.”
De Blasio — who endorsed Mayor Eric Adams in the 2021 election — argued that President Trump’s cost-cutting agenda was even more reason to elect the socialist in November.
“At a time when Donald Trump is cutting SNAP benefits, gutting Medicaid, and once again leaving working people out to dry, the need for an unwavering fighter in City Hall has never been higher,” he wrote.
“It’s not enough to have a ‘leader’ unwilling to be bold in their pursuit for economic opportunity, or hiding behind this so-called question of feasibility.”
Mamdani will face Adams, who is running for re-election as an independent, as well as ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa and attorney Jim Walden on the November ballot.
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