Turns out there could’ve been more discourse around Zohran Mamdani’s appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert . Before the mayoral candidate went onstage for the June 24 episode, Late Show producers reportedly asked if he’d like to do a “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” segment. Prompts included “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas” and “Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state,” Mamdani and those who were in the room told The New Yorker . Needless to say, it was a pass.

“I just couldn’t believe what was happening,” Mamdani recalled. “That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game.” Mamdani adviser Zara Rahim reportedly told the Late Show team, “You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York. You don’t want to ask him a question about tha

See Full Page