Zohran Mamdani, a socialist candidate for New York City mayor, received the endorsement of the United States’s most famous socialist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on Tuesday. The announcement wasn’t a surprise,

Mamdani said racist and Islamophobic threats are not new for him but they recently reached a “new level of specificity.”

The New York City Democratic mayoral primary race has entered its final week with a surprise takedown of one candidate by the New York Times Editorial Board.