Posted on 11/02/2025 8:24:27 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Barack Obama praised Zohran Mamdani in a private telephone call on Saturday, with just days to go before the New York City mayoral election.
The former US president described Mr Mamdani’s campaign as “impressive to watch” in the call and offered his services as a “sounding board”, according to The New York Times.
Mr Obama, still a highly influential voice in the Democratic party, has avoided intervention in municipal contests since he left office and has not endorsed any candidate publicly in the New York race, which will go to the polls on Tuesday.
In the phone call, which lasted roughly 30 minutes, Mr Obama expressed his support for Mr Mamdani’s success beyond the election and discussed the challenges of staffing a new administration and how to enact the frontrunner’s policies of affordability in the city.
The 34-year-old relative newcomer in politics has seen a meteoric rise in the polls since his shock victory over Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, in the Democratic primary in June, and has long been widely projected to triumph in the race.
Mr Cuomo is running against him again as an independent candidate, while Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, is the Republican nominee.
But Mr Mamdani has been slow to attract endorsements from major holdouts in his party, who have attempted to sidestep association with his radical, far-Left policies.
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IIRC, wasn’t o-useless’ mentor in hawaii(and likely groomer) a socialist/commie type?
Of course he does.
Benedict Obama
“My Muslim faith” -obammy
Barry, no body was watching and waiting to see what you would be doing about Mamdani. You’re not even in New York now, not as a tourist or a resident. I doubt if even Michelle has lost much sleep over the ‘dilemma’.
You’ll be too busy preparing your former Grain Elevator/Crematorium-now-repurposed LIE-Barry in Chicago for it’s opening day galas.
Whatever credibility you think you had is gone forever, Barry.
The Left has Obama who never gives up. He wants to destroy America and her Free Constitutional Republic.
Patriots have Trump who also never gives up. But who else?
Trump introduced “MAGA” and Trump is the first step towards MAGA. But he is not the final step toward MAGA.
Lord, raise up true Christian Patriots who will help turn hearts away from trusting in man and his gov’t and turn hearts to trusting in you only, and will help to restore our Free Constitutional Republic. Amen.
Zero doesn’t have to secretly support that guy. We all know whose side zero is on. And it’s not the United States of America.
Obama could only draw fewer than 7000 people for Spamburger’s rally yesterday. He’s not as popular as he used to be.
That's the hope.
Personally, I think Trump is a speed bump and he's just buying us time.
The pendulum is going to swing back in the other direction.
I hope I'm wrong.
With ALL due disrespect, of course the halfrican communist muslim POS supports another communist muslim POS.
Obama needs to lock himself in his Nazi Flak Tower library AND JUST FADE AWAY. Maybe if we are lucky, all the piss poor concrete work by all those “special” minority contractors will allow it to simply collapse around him.
Undoubtedly, Barry sees so much of his younger self in Mamdani...
1. Muslim
2. Marxist
3. “Choom gang” (dope smoking)
4. No executive experience/ Totally unqualified for offices he’s seeking
5. Smiling, charismatic guy promoted by a fawning media.
6. Promising the moon.
7. Born in Africa. LOL.
Mamdani’s support alway seems to be “private” - even from the New York Times.
I find this strange.
Privately?
Hardly.
I believe things will change unexpectedly in our favor.
We’re back in 1776 when the rag-tag colonists faced England, the mightiest power in the world and by the grace of the Hand of Divine Providence, the nation of America was miraculously birthed.
We’re in the same pickle now, our enemies more powerful than us. But I believe the same Hand of the Divine Providence of the Lord God will miraculously restore America’s Free Constitutional Republic.
Well....duh.
O’Bozo can’t endorse the ‘madman’ because O’Bozo’s endorsement has become the kiss of death, and he knows it!
Privately?
In what sense?
It will be a soft conquest.
That’s why so many are being elected now.
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