Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network’s House of Justice in Harlem on Nov. 1, 2025. (Ryan Murphy / Reuters)
"If you can’t get a vote on your record, don’t play us against each other," he added.
He argued that just showing up at someone’s campaign or shaking their hand doesn’t mean you share blame for whatever they’ve been accused of. Sharpton was likely referencing a meeting Mamdani had last week with Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States.
Sharpton went on to say that he denounced both the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
"I’m against Islamophobia. But to bring it into the politics of the biggest city in the world should not be allowed to go unchecked," Sharpton said. "We are not going to sit by silently while they do this. We are Christian. I’m a born-again Baptist, but I embrace the Muslim community to come from the shadows. The Jewish community to come from the shadows. And let’s walk down Broadway together."
New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani practices Tai Chi on Manhattan's Lower East Side on Oct. 31, 2025. (Fox News Digital/Deirdre Heavey)
"If the Freedmen’s Bureau existed today, Donald Trump would pilfer its coffers and smear it as socialist overreach," Mamdani said. "He would do to it what he has done to SNAP, Medicare and Medicaid, to any program that dares to uplift the poor rather than comfort the wealthy."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately hear back.
Mamdani said his campaign was rooted in moral and economic renewal stretching from Harlem to Queens to Bay Ridge.
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"Over the past 12 months, my friends, we have built a movement around creating a society we would all like to see a society where the poor receive aid, where those who work long nights are set free in the day where injustice is banished from our city and where faith is restored in City Hall," Mamdani said.
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