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33-year-old newlywed communist Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York City mayor in this fall’s election, struggled to bench press 135 pounds at a campaign stop in Brooklyn Saturday, needing help by a spotter, reported the New York Post. New York Post excerpt: Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani struggled to execute a single unassisted bench press rep while trying to impress a crowd at the annual Men’s Day open streets event in Brooklyn Saturday. Photos showed the 33-year-old Socialist, and Democratic Party nominee, was unable to lift a bar loaded with what was said to be 135-pounds off the...

Democratic Socialist Zorhan Mamdani, mayoral candidate for New York City, has already begun laying out his vision if he were to win, wanting to shift tax burdens over to “whiter neighborhoods.” The idea of doling out more taxes to white people came in the form of a homeowner policy memo, outlining Mamdani’s plans on housing. “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods,” one bullet point read. “The property tax system is unbalanced because assessment levels are artificially capped, so homeowners in expensive neighborhoods pay less than their...