New York’s leftist mayoral candidate and political phenomenon Zohran Mamdani has a message to business leaders looking aghast at his promises of free buses and higher taxes: don’t worry.

Mamdani is an unapologetic socialist whose meteoric rise from near unknown to the verge of running the biggest city in the United States has been fueled by vows to fix the crushing cost of living for regular people.

He is vilified constantly by President Donald Trump, who calls him a “communist,” and targeted near daily by the right-wing New York Post and Fox News.

But Mamdani has shown political savvy in reaching out to the rich in the US financial capital ahead of Tuesday’s election — and apparently getting them to listen.

During his primary campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination, Mamdani’s

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