{"id":1034218,"date":"2026-08-31T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1034218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:44:16","slug":"mamdani-lookalike-contest-draws-hundreds-of-hopefuls-in-new-york-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1034218\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani lookalike contest draws hundreds of hopefuls in New York | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead u-inline \">Hundreds turned out for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, where nine contestants competed for the crowd\u2019s vote. Part-time actor and Mamdani impersonator Amadeo Fusca won the contest and took home a prize of $100.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026<\/p>\n<p>Share Mamdani lookalike contest draws hundreds of hopefuls in New York on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds turned out for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, where nine contestants competed for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1034219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,173380,405,403,149742,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,149743,67,586,132,5230,68,72,2969],"class_list":["post-1034218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-american-voter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newsfeed","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-show-types","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-canada","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117188065410684084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}