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Three days before the New York mayoral election, former President Barack Obama called party leader Zohran Mamdani and offered his support.
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“Zoran Mamdani appreciated President Obama's words of support and their talk about the importance of ensuring a new kind of politics to our city,” Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Peketz 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 party leader Zohran Mamdani and offered his support. (Neil Constantine/NurPhoto via Getty Images; Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Sliwa's campaign told Fox News Digital it 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 also campaigning in Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and in New Jersey for Mika Sherrill. Both Democrats are in close races for governor in their respective states.
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Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the favorite to win Tuesday's election. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
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“Your campaign is impressive,” Obama told Mamdani in a 30-minute private conversation, The New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the conversation.
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Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger joins former President Barack Obama during a campaign event Saturday in Norfolk, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Obama did not officially support Mamdani after vowing not to interfere in municipal elections, the newspaper reported, adding that it was the second conversation between the two men since the Democratic primary.
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Obama spoke to Mamdani as he did to some establishment Democrats, such as the senator from New York. Chuck Schumerkept their distance from the progressive leader.
