{"id":333566,"date":"2026-08-31T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333566\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:58:08","slug":"mamdani-lookalike-contest-draws-hundreds-of-hopefuls-in-new-york-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333566\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani lookalike contest draws hundreds of hopefuls in New York | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Hundreds turned out for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, where nine contestants competed for the crowd\u2019s vote. Part-time actor and Mamdani impersonator Amadeo Fusca won the contest and took home a prize of $100.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Share Mamdani lookalike contest draws hundreds of hopefuls in New York on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds turned out for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, where nine contestants competed for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17607,9,11,10,5667,87,5668,901,2272],"class_list":["post-333566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-american-voter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-newsfeed","tag-politics","tag-show-types","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333566","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=333566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}