{"id":239221,"date":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239221\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:41:08","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-is-launching-a-twitch-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239221\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he\u2019ll respond to questions the public have submitted via the chat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/mayor-zohran-mamdani-twitch-stream-talk-with-the-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polygon<\/a> reports. The series is aptly titled \u201cTalk with the People,\u201d and kicks off later today at 4PM ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWith the launch of \u2018Talk with the People\u2019 we\u2019re bringing City Hall to the platforms where New Yorkers already are \u2014 speaking directly with the people,\u201d Mamdani told Polygon in a written statement. \u201cBy launching the country\u2019s first recurring cross-platform stream hosted by an elected official, where I\u2019ll answer New Yorkers\u2019 questions live on Twitch, we\u2019re opening up a direct line of conversation between our government and the people, especially younger generations who\u2019ve been ignored for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While it\u2019s described as a \u201crecurring\u201d series, it\u2019s unclear how often the show will actually air, or what its estimated run time will be. \u201cTalk to the People\u201d will also stream live on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Bluesky, though questions will only be taken via Twitch chat. This is hardly the first time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/7\/19\/24202095\/twitch-lifts-donald-trump-ban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a politician<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/8\/15\/20804614\/bernie-sanders-twitch-presidential-campaign-gamers-streaming-donations-streamlabs-fec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined Twitch<\/a>, though we\u2019ll have to see how Mamdani\u2019s debut viewing figures stack up against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/10\/20\/21526164\/aoc-among-us-twitch-debut-top-concurrent-viewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he\u2019ll respond to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17953,9,12,56,63,65,64,1413,87,1601,32846],"class_list":["post-239221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-creators","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-tech","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239221","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=239221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}