Democratic candidate for New York mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to residents and members of the media while campaigning in Manhattan's Upper East Side on October 27, 2025. Mike Segar/Reuters/File

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks.

National Republicans including Vice President JD Vance mocked Mamdani’s story, which the nominee told during a Friday speech criticizing his rival Andrew Cuomo for appearing to laugh along with a radio host who suggested Mamdani would cheer another 9/11.

Accounts on X flagged a LinkedIn profile belonging to Mamdani’s father’s sister in which she is not wearing

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