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.

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani "little muhammad" in a social media post.

New York Young Republican Club and far-right Republicans demand his removal and the return of Red Scare-era McCarthyism

President Donald Trump called Zohran Mamdani a "communist from New York" and called his primary win "a terrible thing for our country." Mamdani is a self-described democratic socialist who won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York.