{"id":87630,"date":"2026-01-02T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87630\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T21:03:10","slug":"bernie-sanders-swears-in-zohran-mamdani-as-new-york-city-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/87630\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders swears in Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnVermont\u2019s Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders swore in Zohran Mamdani, the new Democratic mayor of New York City, during Mamdani\u2019s inauguration on Jan. 1, 2026 (CBS New York).<\/p>\n

Vermont\u2019s Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders swore in Zohran Mamdani, the new Democratic mayor of New York City, during Mamdani\u2019s inauguration on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Mamdani was officially sworn in at midnight<\/a> New Year\u2019s Day by New York Attorney General Letitia James. But for his public inauguration ceremony later that day, the mayor chose Sanders to administer his oath of office a second time in a ceremonial capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou showed the world the most important lesson that can be learned today \u2014 and that is that when working people stand together, when we don\u2019t let them divide us up, there is nothing we cannot accomplish,\u201d Sanders told Mamdani in a speech before the swearing-in<\/a>, in front of tens of thousands of people gathered<\/a> outside New York City Hall.<\/p>\n

Both Sanders and Mamdani are self-described Democratic socialists and are at the forefront of national progressive politics. New York\u2019s Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another progressive leader, also spoke at the event. Sanders, who was born in Brooklyn, had endorsed Mamdani\u2019s bid for mayor and campaigned with him last year.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has called<\/a> Sanders \u201cthe single most influential political figure in my life.\u201d Sanders told VTDigger last fall<\/a> that Mamdani\u2019s campaign studied the senator\u2019s 1981 run for Burlington mayor<\/a>, when Sanders upset a more moderate opponent who\u2019d held elected office for years.<\/p>\n

In November\u2019s mayoral election, Mamdani bested former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a>, who was running as an independent after Mamdani defeated him and a field of other opponents in a shock victory in the summertime Democratic primary.<\/p>\n

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In his speech before swearing in Mamdani, Sanders described the mayor\u2019s signature campaign proposals as \u201cnot radical,\u201d even as the mayor\u2019s opponents have assailed them as such. Mamdani has called for raising taxes on New York City\u2019s wealthiest residents to fund universal child care and city buses that are faster and fare-free. He also wants to freeze rent increases for millions of tenants in rent-stabilized housing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sanders said Mamdani\u2019s campaign had a seismic impact on national politics \u201cin a moment when people in America, and in fact, throughout the world, are losing faith in democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for inspiring our nation,\u201d he said. \u201cThank you for giving us, from coast to coast, the hope and the vision that we can create government that works for all \u2014 not just the wealthy and the few.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times<\/a>, Mamdani\u2019s supporters \u201cdefied freezing temperatures\u201d and \u201ca fresh coating of snow\u201d to witness the mayor\u2019s inauguration. While Sanders was bundled in a large green coat for the ceremony, he skipped the mittens \u2014 sewn by Essex Junction resident Jen Ellis<\/a> \u2014 that he went viral for wearing to former President Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vermont\u2019s Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders swore in Zohran Mamdani, the new Democratic mayor of New York City,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5057,39574,9,24,11,10,87],"class_list":["post-87630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-inauguration","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87630","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=87630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}