National Democrats are grappling with how much to embrace Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a leftist who has become the party’s standard-bearer in America’s largest city.

New York Democrats cool to their party’s Big Apple mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani are weighing their options as the 33-year-old progressive makes his own pitch to centrists that they should back him.

Zohran Mamdani’s nomination as the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City has sparked divisions within the party, failing to receive support from key leaders. The internal rifts have raised concerns of potential fractures in the Party ahead of the city's November election.