It adds to a barrage of Islamophobic attacks that Republicans have levied against the Democratic state assemblymember.

Some have pointed to Mamdani’s lack of roots in America as an example of how immigrants are driving left-wing politics, but that’s only part of the story. Mamdani doesn’t quite represent foreigners.

Zohran Mamdani has claimed victory over a wounded, but still formidable former Gov Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic ...