{"id":381654,"date":"2026-10-24T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381654\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:00:13","slug":"zohran-mamdani-casts-his-midterm-ballot-as-first-day-of-early-voting-kicks-off-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381654\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani casts his midterm ballot as first day of early voting kicks off in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting kicked off Saturday in New York with NYC Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/24\/us-news\/nycs-zohran-mamdani-weaponizing-ads-to-push-ballot-questions-that-would-take-power-from-the-people-critics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zohran Mamdani casting his ballot<\/a> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n<p>The socialist mayor \u2013 who has been campaigning heavily to get Gov. Kathy Hochul re-elected in a race against Republican Bruce Blakeman \u2013 showed up at the Upper East Side site around 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani casting his ballot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art polling site as early voting kicks off in NYC on Oct. 24, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani greets a poll worker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art polling site on the first day of early voting for the U.S. midterm elections, in New York, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrives to the Metropolitan Museum of Art polling site carrying a bag of donuts for poll workers before casting his ballot on the first day of early voting in NYC on Oct. 24, 2026. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani shows up at the Met to vote, bringing Dunkin\u2019 donuts for the poll workers. A guy who just voted heckles him as a \u201ccommunist.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/404vVRQDsD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/404vVRQDsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Coltin (@JCColtin) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JCColtin\/status\/2113994028064936253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner brought donuts for poll workers and was greeted by at least one heckler, who yelled \u201cCommunist! You suck!,\u201d according to video posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting will continue for more than a week before Nov. 3 on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting kicked off Saturday in New York with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani casting his ballot at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,13305,46937,9,24,55,54,56,58,4727,82],"class_list":["post-381654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-metro","tag-midterm-elections","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news","tag-voting","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381654","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=381654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}