Zohran Mamdani , the front-runner in the New York City mayor's race, said Monday that he was canceling an upcoming town hall with an ABC affiliate in protest of the network's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel 's late-night talk show under pressure from the Trump administration.

"I am withdrawing not as an indictment of the local affiliate or the hardworking journalists, but rather in response to the corporate leaders who have put their bottom line ahead of their responsibility in upholding the freedom of the press," Mamdani said at a campaign event on Manhattan's Roosevelt Island.

The WABC town hall was set to take place on Thursday, the Democratic nominee's campaign said.

The cancellation is the latest example of backlash over the decision to yank "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air days af

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