NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

Z ohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, pointedly explained why he thinks President Donald Trump has levied attacks on his citizenship and threatened to arrest him in recent days. Trump simply needs a distraction, Mamdani argued in a press conference with New York City labor leaders on Wednesday.

President Trump is ramping up his attacks on one of the GOP's newest targets, New York City's progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. The big picture: The 33-year-old Democratic primary winner in the NYC mayoral primary has been hit with a barrage of attacks from the right ever since his win,