{"id":202849,"date":"2025-09-05T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202849\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:16:11","slug":"mamdani-challenges-trump-to-debate-amid-heated-nyc-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202849\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Challenges Trump to Debate Amid Heated NYC Mayoral Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Thursday challenged President Donald Trump to a televised debate, escalating tensions in a crowded race already marked by sharp clashes, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-challenges-president-trump-to-public-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the New York Post reported.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s cut out the middle man,\u201d Mamdani told The Post. \u201cWhy should I debate Donald Trump\u2019s puppet when I could debate Donald Trump himself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Socialist lawmaker defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the June primary but faces him again in November\u2019s general election. Cuomo earlier called for five debates, one in each borough, accusing Mamdani of avoiding scrutiny. Mamdani said he will only take part in the two debates scheduled by the city\u2019s Campaign Finance Board.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani accused Trump of meddling in the race, citing private conversations and the president\u2019s criticism of his platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Donald Trump is serious about intervening in the mayoral race, he should come to New York City and debate me directly,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/us-news\/zohran-mamdani-challenges-president-trump-to-public-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read more at the New York Post.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Thursday challenged President Donald Trump to a televised debate, escalating tensions in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-202849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152826167978728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202849","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=202849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}