(NewsNation) — New York society clutched their pearls when Vanity Fair, the esteemed Condé Nast magazine, put New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani on its “cover” earlier this month.

Several well-heeled New Yorkers emailed, called and texted me to proclaim their disbelief that a local socialist would be so prominently featured in a national magazine. Some even thought the assignment must be a holdover from former editor, Radhika Jones.

But, I’m told, while the story was indeed a cover — it was a “digital” cover, and it was directly assigned by the new editor Mark Guiducci.

Guiducci, who also attempted to get Melania Trump on the cover and is in the process of courting Trump's ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, is “interested in interesting stories — and (Mamdani) is the ze

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