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After Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory in the New York City mayoral election\u2014making him the city\u2019s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor-elect\u2014Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., signaled plans to try to block him from taking office.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump has accused the 34-year-old Ugandan-born politician of being a communist, after previously warning that he would withhold federal funding from New York City if Mamdani won. Mamdani secured his win last week with a decisive margin, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo by nearly 10 percentage points, though Mamdani barely won a majority of votes overall.<\/p>\n
But some Republican lawmakers have vowed to block him from taking office. Some Republican lawmakers have demanded investigations into Mamdani\u2019s naturalisation process, calling for him to be stripped of his US citizenship and deported. They have accused him of involvement in communist and \u201cterrorist\u201d activities and figures linked to terrorism.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Mamdani lied on his naturalisation documents, he doesn\u2019t get to be a citizen, and he certainly doesn\u2019t get to run for mayor of New York City. A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,\u201d Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said in an October 29 news release, after asking US Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the mayor-elect, the Economic Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n