Mamdani stumps for far-left House hopefuls as NY primary voters hit the polls

Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent Tuesday morning zipping around the Big Apple stumping for the trio of far-left congressional hopefuls he’s endorsed — as New Yorkers cast their ballots in a series of high-stakes primaries.Hizzoner sported a white shirt in blue-and-orange Knicks colors featuring the faces of DSA-backed House candidates Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, along with former city comptroller Brad Lander, emblazoned with the slogan: “Our team.Our year.”“We are feeling great,” the democratic socialist mayor told supporters while stumping for Lander, who is challenging incumbent Rep.

Dan Goldman for New York’s 10th House District covering parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.Mamdani said his endorsed slate of socialists were “standing together,” noting that New Yorkers will be deciding who to send to Washington DC to help in advancing his “affordability agenda.”“We know that we live in the most expensive city in the United States of America, we’ve made it very clear that we need to transform the city into one that each and every single person can afford,” he said.Follow live updates on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda and the latest in NYC politicsMamdani kicked off the morning with Avila Chevalier, a community organizer who worked on his mayoral campaign, with the pair rolling into a nearly empty Harlem polling place to cast their ballots around 7:30 a.m., according to City & State.Neither Mamdani nor Avila Chevalier’s campaign would tell The Post where they were voting.The doctoral student is looking to topple five-term incumbent Rep.Adriano Espaillat and seize New York’s 13th House District seat representing Upper Manhattan and the northwest Bronx.The 32-year-old candidate has come under fire throughout her campaign for a series of past inflammatory social media posts, including lashing out at Joe Biden and establishment Democrats, calling the US “a f—ing disgrace” and blasting that Israel doesn�...