Zohran Mamdani hasn’t even taken office yet, but New York City’s mayor-elect is already gearing up for a fight with President Donald Trump—and lining up allies for the battles ahead.

According to Axios, Mamdani, who trounced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in November’s general election, has spent the past week on the phone with a trio of Democratic governors: Illinois’ JB Pritzker, Maryland’s Wes Moore, and Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro. The calls, aides say, have centered on both policy and politics: how to govern effectively in Trump’s America, and how to push back when the president targets blue cities.

That last point isn’t theoretical. Trump has repeatedly smeared Mamdani as a “communist” and threatened to choke off federal funds to New York if the mayor-elect steps out of line. Hi

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