Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been travelling around the United States on his Fighting the Oligarchy Tour — a series of town halls aimed at engaging progressive voters nationwide.

On Saturday evening, he brought that message to his alma mater, Brooklyn College, for a joint town hall with New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Seated beside the longtime progressive politician, Mamdani drew 1,700 people as the clear frontrunner in the city’s mayoral race — a contest now drawing national attention as progressives view him and candidates like him as a way to energise their movement and also fuelling the ire and concerted attacks from the right, including from President Donald Trump.

“Politics can be powered by ordinary people,” Mamdani told the packed auditorium.

The event, p

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