Zohran Mamdani released a video of himself interviewing people on the street in Queens and the Bronx who had voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election the previous week. It was one of the first of the viral posts that propelled him into the spotlight and ultimately helped him all but capture the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York.

Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee called New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani "little muhammad" in a social media post.

New York Young Republican Club and far-right Republicans demand his removal and the return of Red Scare-era McCarthyism

The latest barrage has included comments from Republicans in Congress, who incorporated racist stereotypes on the presumptive Democratic nominee in the New York mayor’s race.

Coming up with nondefamatory ways to attack Zohran Mamdani is not exactly an insurmountable task. The 33-year-old Democratic nominee for New York City mayor is an avowed socialist from a privileged background,

The responses to Zohran Mamdani’s showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.