Zohran Mamdani will fight for ordinary NYers like Ella Emhoff and Rashida Tlaib
Zohran 'Man of the People' Mamdani continues to win the hearts of . . . other nepo babies and Jew-haters.
Ella Emhoff, (briefly) famous as Kamala Harris' stepdaughter, recently came out in support of the Queens leftist's mayoral run.
An insanely rich nepo baby LA transplant with a political powerhouse stepmom and a superlawyer dad, Emhoff scored an elite modeling contract very clearly based on her family connections and now hawks armpit-hair oil on Instagram while holding down a fake job as a fashion designer.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris' stepdaughter Ella Emhoff endorsed Mamdani.
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If there's one person who gets the problems, hopes and dreams of the people who make Gotham the greatest city in the world, it's definitely her. Just like me, think working moms from Mott Haven to Midwood.
Now, to be fair, Emhoff does represent a key Mamdani demographic: rich kids from out of town posing as gritty, tough native New Yorkers.
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Also central to his candidacy, and the coalitional politics of the modern left: rabid antisemites.
And so Jew-hating conspiracy-theorist Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has joined Zohran's fundraising efforts.
Tlaib is an unabashed supporter of Hamas' attempted Oct. 7 genocide, and an Alex-Jones level fringe thinker around the tragic rocket attack on a Gaza hospital by Palestinian terrorists who were trying to kill Jews and missed.
We're sure she'll play great in the Big Apple, the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel.
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Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib is helping Mamdani fundraise.
Photo byWhat next: A Louis Farrakhan-led phone bank and David Duke TikTok ads?
In all seriousness, Mamdani represents the narrow views and narrower interests of our leftist elites — and he does so while smarming about how much he loves the little guy.
His mayoralty would be even worse than Bill de Blasio's, which is saying something.
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New Yorkers are tired of insanity on crime, immigration and the domestic terrorism Mamdani wants to give a free pass to.
And a parade of affluent, powerful carpetbaggers like Emhoff and Tlaib won't convince them otherwise.
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