{"id":25648,"date":"2025-11-02T05:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:25:17","slug":"obama-has-extended-phone-call-with-mayoral-fronter-runner-zohran-mamdani-offers-to-be-sounding-board-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25648\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama has extended phone call with mayoral fronter runner Zohran Mamdani, offers to be ‘sounding board’: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Barack Obama had an extended phone call with mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday and offered to be a \u201csounding board\u201d for the socialist candidate \u2014 but didn\u2019t officially endorse him for mayor, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The pair had a 30-minute phone call in which Obama praised Mamdani for his campaign and stated he was invested in the 34-year-old\u2019s success beyond Tuesday\u2019s election, according to two people familiar with the call who spoke to The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour campaign has been impressive to watch,\u201d Obama told the Democratic candidate, further offering to be a \u201csounding board\u201d after he takes office.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer president Barack Obama heaped praise on Mamdani and said he was invested in his political future beyond Tuesday\u2019s election. Aristide Economopoulos<\/p>\n

The former prez consulted the anti-cop state assemblyman<\/a> on the challenges of staffing a new administration and on being able to achieve his lofty promises on making the city more affordable, the report claimed.<\/p>\n

The two Democrat pols made plans to meet in person at some point in Washington DC, that report stated.<\/p>\n

During the call, Mamdani said he drew inspiration for his recent speech on Islamophobia<\/a> from Obama\u2019s speech on race during his first presidential run in 2008, the report claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cZohran Mamdani appreciated President Obama\u2019s words of support and their conversation on the importance of bringing a new kind of politics to our city,\u201d a spokesperson for Mamdani told The Times.<\/p>\n

\"ZohranDemocratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the front runner in Tuesday\u2019s mayoral election. James Keivom<\/p>\n

Despite the nice-making phone call, the Democratic Socialist previously trashed Obama as \u201cpretty damn evil\u201d<\/a> in a series of tweets from 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cHasn\u2019t Obama shown that the lesser evil is still pretty damn evil?\u201d he wrote in a post<\/a> directed at then Democrat Sen. Ed Markey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t trust quotes from @BarackObama, not since his continued lying the face of Snowden\u2019s #NSA revelations,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n

Obama also called the lefty-pol after his shocking win<\/a> in the Democratic primary in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former President Barack Obama had an extended phone call with mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday and offered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12674,9,11,10,1093,87,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-25648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-us-news","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25648","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=25648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}