It adds to a barrage of Islamophobic attacks that Republicans have levied against the Democratic state assemblymember.

Republican leaders wasted little time over the past 24 hours seeking to make Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party, painting the leading New York mayoral candidate as a left-wing extremist and signaling that they would try to tie him to other Democratic candidates across the country.

In this episode of Politics Unusual after an unusual upset in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, FOX 5 NY’s Morgan McKay speaks one-on-one with Zohran Mamdani on his promises, campaign rivals and non-endorsements from New York Democratic leadership.