Zohran Mamdani ended his anti-President Trump tour of the five boroughs Friday with a glowing endorsement from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards — who compared the socialist upstart to former President Barack Obama.
Richards, a Democrat who has been serving the borough for over 13 years, urged the party to fall in line behind the 33-year-old mayoral nominee, as top New York Dems continue to drag their feet on publicly backing Mamdani.
“Zohran has inspired hope, and I couldn’t understand it all at first, but then I thought back to who inspired me in 2008, Barack Obama. He gave me hope. It was this feeling of hope,” said Donovan at the Kew Gardens office of the 32BJ SEIU union 3
“The Democratic Party has to meet this moment. We’ve always been a big tent party,” Richards sai