Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up in Queens this weekend to back New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, turning the rally into a kind of celebration of the city’s immigrant roots. She asked the crowd to ignore anyone calling their movement “crazy” or “outlandish,” because in her view, it’s exactly the opposite.
Ocasio-Cortez, who’s been tight with Mamdani for years, took the microphone Sunday. She wanted to rev up voters before the election, and she had a story; New York isn’t a place for the faint of heart or the narrow-minded.
“This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping the Holocaust, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow,” she told the crowd. “Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island, in this country, in a vision to build the freest, toughest, and greatest city on earth.”
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A totally unhinged AOC tonight at the NYC Jihadist rally for Mamdani with assistance from Sanders and Hochul.
NYC is done. pic.twitter.com/Qfq7LBq4VQ
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 27, 2025
That’s a resume pretty much no other city can claim, right? Meanwhile, within the Democratic Party, leaders are trying to keep up with the newcomers. On Friday, Hakeem Jeffries finally figured out where he stands. After months of back-and-forth, he came out for Mamdani and said the candidate had “explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers.” Bernie Sanders weighed in a while back, saying Mamdani is “the best choice for NYC mayor” and lauding his “grass-roots movement fueled by everyday people.”
Ocasio-Cortez nudged the crowd with some classic reassurance. “We must remember in a time such as this, we are not the crazy ones, New York City. We are not the outlandish ones, New York City. They want us to think we are crazy. We are sane.”
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Anyone who has to publicly announce to a lot of people that they are not crazy is probably crazy. And with AOC, we know she’s crazy. Just listen to her or read her tweets.
Well, the numbers do seem to prop her up. Summer polls still show Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani holding their grip on Democratic primary voters. One survey—paid for by a pro-Palestinian group, shocker—claimed 68 percent view Mamdani favorably, and a whopping 75 percent think Ocasio-Cortez is just wonderful. The same poll said Democrats are all-in on enforcing an international arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and yanking U.S. weapons away from Israel. Naturally, these are the flagship issues of Mamdani’s campaign.
And what’s driving all this? A tidal wave of New York City’s freshly minted “college-educated” youth. These are kids who spent the last four years paying obscene tuition just to be spoon-fed socialism and communism in classrooms run by professors who think Karl Marx was America’s Founding Father. They honestly believe these systems will make life “fair” for everyone. Sure. Maybe they should go ahead and elect Mamdani because nothing teaches you that socialism and communism are a steaming dumpster fire quite like actually living under it.
Mamdani’s socialist credentials no longer seem like baggage. He belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America, and a September poll from the DSA’s own research fund claims that most Democrats now feel socialism reflects their values better than capitalism, with 74 percent saying democratic socialism best captures what they believe.
Even outside New York, people are noticing. On HBO’s Real Time in August, Bill Maher brought up Ocasio-Cortez, Mamdani, and Senator Elizabeth Warren as examples of Democrats on the party’s left who “won’t come on” his show. He said he’s invited them, along with Bill and Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris, but they’ve all said no. That, he said, is strange because he “voted for them.” Maher then gave a parting jab at Democrats by comparing them to Republicans, who, according to him, “show up and take their beating like a man.”
And according to polling, the Democrats in NYC seem to be siding with the least popular system across America.
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Two-thirds of Democrats are embracing what 54% of American voters reject.
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani soars to new record highs in the NYC Mayoral Election.
95% chance he’s New York City’s next mayor. pic.twitter.com/Pq1giQzW7h
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) October 27, 2025
So that’s the picture: Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani trying to rally a diverse city behind a progressive banner, while the old guard of the Democratic Party starts to adjust. Whether voters buy into their version of the future, we’ll find out soon enough.
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