Zohran Mamdani released a video of himself interviewing people on the street in Queens and the Bronx who had voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election the previous week. It was one of the first of the viral posts that propelled him into the spotlight and ultimately helped him all but capture the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York.

Republicans are demanding a federal probe into NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's citizenship, with some calling for his deportation. Critics accuse him of ties to extremism and the Palestinian terror group,