Some of New York City’s beloved bodega owners and community leaders are speaking out against Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, saying they feel betrayed by a bodega business leader who endorsed him.

"I don't know how my friend got convinced to say that, when all of the bodega[s] together, they feel that they were betrayed by someone that's supposed to represent [us] and they know the problem that we have been facing with the public safety. That's our No. 1 concern that we have," Bodega and Small Business Association President Francisco Marte said on "Fox & Friends First" Friday.

Marte’s comments followed the resignation of United Bodegas of America co-founder Fernando Mateo this week, after the group’s president, Radhames Rodriguez, publicly endorsed Mamdani on beh

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