Vice President JD Vance, left, criticized New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (Leo Correa/AP; Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times via AP)
Mamdani also said Friday that, "I want to speak to the Muslim who works for our city, whether they teach in our schools or walk the beat for the NYPD, New Yorkers who all make daily sacrifices for the city they call home, only to see their leaders spit in their face."
"I want to speak to every child who grows up here marked as the other, who is randomly selected in a way that never quite feels random, who feels that they carry a stain that can never be cleaned. Growing up in the shadow of 9/11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion in this city," Mamdani added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Mamdani campaign for reaction to Vance’s comment.
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People cast their ballots during early voting on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025, in New York. (Olga Fedorova/AP)
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"Yes, I believe that they were," Mamdani said, before adding, "We're speaking about a former governor who, in his final moments in public life, is engaging in rhetoric that is not only Islamophobic, not only racist, it's also disgusting."
Fox News Digital’s Deirdre Heavey contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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