Vance mocks Mamdani amid tense NYC race | JQJO

Vice President JD Vance attacked Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for New York City mayor, mocking Mamdani’s emotional remarks about an aunt who felt unsafe in her hijab after 9/11 and saying attention should be on the victims. Vance also criticized Mamdani’s meeting with Brooklyn imam Siraj Wahhaj. Mamdani, seeking to become the city’s first Muslim mayor, decried politics of division, compared Vance to Andrew Cuomo, and posted a widely viewed video after a Bronx mosque speech. The race has grown tense as allies traded barbs, prompting rebukes from journalists and Democrats.