New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) said Monday that he does not “begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical” about him as Election Day nears.

“I don’t begrudge New Yorkers who are skeptical, because they’ve also lived through tens of millions of dollars of commercials telling them to fear me,” Mamdani told host Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.”

“You know, they have lived through waking up every morning and seeing a photo of me and just feeling like, ‘Oh my God,’ because the language that’s written around me is as if I’m a threat to the city that they love.”

Mamdani, a democratic socialist, burst onto the national stage after an upset win against political heavyweight and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the June Democratic primary for New York mayor. The New York Assembly

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