US Vice President JD Vance on Saturday skewered New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani after the Democratic Socialist candidate delivered an emotional speech about his Muslim aunt's fear in the days following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"According to Zohran, the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks," Vance wrote on X, sharing a clip of Mamdani choking back tears while recalling the anti-Muslim bias his family endured after 9/11.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old Queens Assemblyman, had earlier vowed to more openly embrace his Muslim identity following a series of attacks from former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa, which he described as "racist and baseless." Speaking outside the Islamic Cultural Center of The Bronx, Ma

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