{"id":177608,"date":"2026-03-27T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177608\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:02:05","slug":"mamdani-will-skip-this-weekends-rallies-aimed-at-trump-hochul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177608\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani will skip this weekend\u2019s rallies aimed at Trump, Hochul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No Kings March against President Donald Trump is billed as the \u201clargest protest in New York City history,\u201d but one prominent New York City resident won\u2019t go.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Given his mutually respectful relationship with the president, it makes sense that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn\u2019t showing up pitchfork in hand. But several of his allies will be there. The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani\u2019s political home base, is part of the organizing coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that he is figuring out his orientation to the outside movement, but he\u2019s also just really focused on New York City and the budget fight right now,\u201d said NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo.<\/p>\n<p>DSA will send canvassers to work the crowd to convince people to come to another rally on Sunday to pressure Gov. Kathy Hochul to raise taxes on the wealthy, featuring Sen. Bernie Sanders. Mamdani is also skipping that event because he doesn\u2019t want to anger the governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/21\/nyregion\/bernie-sanders-tax-the-rich-mamdani.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The New York Times reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hochul doesn\u2019t plan to attend Saturday\u2019s No Kings rally either, her spokesperson said. But for most Democrats who aren\u2019t in the executive branch, the event is a no-brainer. Mamdani\u2019s congressional endorsees Brad Lander and Assembly Member Claire Valdez will be there on Saturday. Their opponents, Rep. Dan Goldman, Council Member Julie Won and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso will too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the (No Kings) rallies are an incredibly effective way for New Yorkers to both organize together and make it clear what their vision is for this city, for this state, for this country,\u201d Mamdani offered at an unrelated press conference Friday morning. He said many New Yorkers believe ICE doesn\u2019t belong in the city. \u201cThese rallies are also an opportunity to realize that you are not in the minority when you have those beliefs. You are, in fact, one of a part of a growing coalition of people who want to see a shred of decency, dignity and humanity come back to our city and our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No Kings March against President Donald Trump is billed as the \u201clargest protest in New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3066,75,84,83,9,24,2327,63,82],"class_list":["post-177608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-heard-around-town","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-politics","tag-nyc","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177608","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=177608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}