Joel Rubin, who ran Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign and is a strategist for Democratic candidates, said Mamdani is a “huge deal” among U.S. Jews, in part because competition has been heating up between Democrats and Republicans in recent years for Jewish votes. The GOP has been more aggressively pursuing Jews, he said.

In an exclusive one-on-one interview with Ayman Mohyeldin, New York City Democratic Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani responded to JD Vance saying "According to Zohran, the real victim of 9/11 was his auntie who got some (allegedly) bad looks.