Former President Barack Obama was as close as North Jersey but still only talked by phone with New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani over the weekend — and withheld endorsing him.

New York City's Democratic nominee for Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins “The Beat with Ari Melber” for a wide-ranging interview on New York politics, Trump, Democratic Socialism, and 50 Cent.

A video of a recent address by Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate, has been viewed more than 25 million times.

The New York City mayoral candidate's anecdote about an aunt who faced Islamophobia after 9/11 prompted accusations that he fabricated the story.