Mamdani Willing to Work With Trump, Who Sees Him Winning NYC (1)

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, said he’s willing to work with Donald Trump, even as the US president disparages him as a “communist lunatic.”

“I would be happy to work with the president and the administration on anything that would benefit New Yorkers,” Mamdani said in an interview Thursday at Bloomberg headquarters in New York. “Where I take issue are the proposals that come at the expense of those same New Yorkers.”

The 33-year-old front-runner in this November’s election said he hasn’t yet spoken to Trump, who has tried to influence the ...