Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back against Rep. Brandon Gill’s objection to New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani campaigning in Arabic
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defended Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani after Republican Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, criticized him for campaigning in Arabic.
« Just a couple decades after 9/11, the leading candidate for NYC mayor is campaigning in Arabic. The humiliation is the point », Gill wrote in a post on X, sharing a Mamdani campaign video in Arabic.
The Republican made the comments when retweeting a Mamdani post on X written in Arabic, which featured a video of the mayoral candidate speaking the foreign language.
