{"id":17654,"date":"2025-10-26T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:09:07","slug":"zohran-mamdani-boasts-hes-a-proud-dsa-member-in-response-to-gop-citizenship-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/17654\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani boasts he’s a ‘proud’ DSA member in response to GOP citizenship threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani boasted he was a \u201cproud democratic socialist\u201d Sunday as he brushed off congressional Republicans\u2019 threats to <\/a>revoke his citizenship over his naturalization paperwork.<\/p>\n

Mamdani, 34, denied being a communist after opponents claimed he lied by not disclosing on his 2018 citizenship forms that he was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter how many times these Republican Congress members or the president of this country calls me a communist, it doesn\u2019t make it true.\u201d Mamdani told The Post Sunday, adding it was \u201ctelling\u201d that DC Republicans were more concerned about deporting him than ending the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to be a democratic socialist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"ZohranZohran Mamdani brushed of GOP accusations on Sunday that he was a lying communist who should be deported. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n

That dismissal comes days after Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) renewed calls to have Mamdani\u2019s citizenship investigated \u2014 and revoked \u2014 echoing allegations from GOP Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).<\/p>\n

The Republicans have claimed the DSA is a communist organization, and that Mamdani\u2019s membership could have disqualified him from citizenship \u2014 citing congressional rules that categorize communism as part of a totalitarian umbrella and can disqualify followers from becoming US citizens.<\/p>\n

How well that argument would hold water is unclear, however, as the DSA is not officially a communist party \u2014 even though some members are communists.<\/p>\n

Mamdani was born in Uganda and moved to New York City at the age of 7 while his father taught at Columbia University, and became a naturalized US citizen<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n

\"AnRep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) re-issued his claims against Mamdani in a recent post on X calling for his deportation. X\/@AndyOgles<\/p>\n

He has also always maintained that he is not a communist, but merely a DSA member \u2014 and doubled down on those claims when asked about Fine\u2019s and Ogles\u2019 crusade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is telling that in a moment where their Republican Party has shut down the federal government out of an attempt to throw four million Americans off their healthcare, a moment when active duty military families are forced to line up at food banks, they would rather focus on my citizenship,\u201d Mamdani added.<\/p>\n

The communist angle is not the GOP\u2019s only attempt to probe Mamdani\u2019s citizenship.<\/p>\n

In June, Ogles also sent a letter to US Attorney General Pam Bondi asking for a Department of Justice investigation into his citizenship over lyrics Mamdani once rapped that appeared to express solidarity<\/a> for Hamas terrorists.<\/p>\n

Mamdani leads his rivals \u2014 Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa \u2014 in the polls just over a week<\/a> ahead of the Nov. 4 mayoral election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani boasted he was a \u201cproud democratic socialist\u201d Sunday as he brushed off congressional Republicans\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12246,57,9,24,55,54,56,2134,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-17654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-communism","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-republicans","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}