PBS Favors Radical Mamdani in NYC Mayor Primary: Obama to Cuomo’s Trump?

Zohran Mamdani, the controversial leftwing Muslim candidate who last night won the Democratic primary in the New York City mayoral race and will take on incumbent Eric Adams this fall, was celebrated on PBS’s News Hour Monday, before the voting.

At least both co-anchor Geoff Bennett and field reporter William Brangham called Mamdani a “socialist,” though the label would be hard to deny, given Mamdani is running under the party line of the Democratic Socialists of America. Even the New York Times editorial page fretted he “offers an agenda that remains alluring among elite progressives but has proved damaging to city life.”