{"id":298194,"date":"2025-11-21T20:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298194\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:33:11","slug":"live-trump-hosts-mamdani-at-white-house-after-months-of-trading-barbs-with-nyc-mayor-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/298194\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Trump hosts Mamdani at White House after months of trading barbs with NYC mayor-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Mamdani&#8217;s swift risepublished at 19:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p>19:18 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8025c513-814f-4824-a231-6907106001a4.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Anthony Zurcher<br \/>North America correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani in a dark suit stands behind a podium bearing the sign &quot;Zohran for New York City&quot; as he speaks at an election night party. Behind him are several flags, including the US flag to his right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/670d3583-d41e-4d32-9543-22cab22d8920.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"2738\" height=\"1540\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, is notable in many ways. He will become city\u2019s youngest mayor since 1892, its first Muslim mayor and its first mayor born in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That alone makes his victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa remarkable. But more than that, he represents the kind of politician that many in the party\u2019s left has been seeking for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He\u2019s young and charismatic, with his generation\u2019s natural comfort with social media. His ethnicity reflects the diversity of the Democratic Party\u2019s base. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He hasn\u2019t shied away from a political fight and has proudly espoused left-wing causes \u2013 such as free childcare, expanded public transportation and government intervention in free market systems. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has shown a laser-like ability to focus on the kind of core economic issues that have been a priority for working-class voters who have drifted from the Democratic Party recently but he hasn\u2019t disavowed the left\u2019s cultural principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By running against and defeating Cuomo \u2013 a former New York governor who was himself the son of a governor &#8211; he vanquished the entrenched Democratic establishment viewed by many on the left as woefully out of touch with their party and their nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But critics have warned that such a candidate is unelectable in broad swathes of America &#8211; and Republicans have gleefully held the self-avowed democratic socialist up as the far-left face of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mamdani&#8217;s swift risepublished at 19:18 GMT 19:18 GMT Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent Image source, EPA Zohran Mamdani, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-298194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}