Former NY governor likens Mamdani's appeal to Trump's

Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D) on Sunday compared Zohran Mamdani’s success as the city’s Democratic mayoral candidate to the political rise of President Trump a decade prior.

“The support that Mamdani is receiving … the number of people he’s registering, the number of people who go to his rallies … if I blinked my eyes 10 years ago, there was another person who was able to do that, and his name is Donald Trump, whose political ideology is the polar opposite of what Mamdani’s...