Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has endorsed Zohran Mamdani to lead the country’s largest city with the mayoral race just over two months away.  The former mayor, who served two terms leading the city from 2014 to 2021, said in an op-ed in the New York Daily News published Tuesday that Mamdani is “relentlessly challenging the status quo of deepening unaffordability.” He praised the New York State Assembly member’s calls for “bold sweeping action,” including a rent freeze, universal child care for children up to 5 years old and free city buses. 

“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?” de Blasio

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