Former President Barack Obama called Zohran Mamdani , New York City’s Democratic nominee for mayor, after the socialist won the June primary.

Obama congratulated Mamdani and “offered him advice about governing and discussed the importance of giving people hope in a dark time,” according to the New York Times.

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Mamdani decisively won the June Democratic primary for mayor in New York City over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom he is now running against in the November general election along with incu

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