Cory Booker (D-NJ) refused to say whether he supports New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a recent interview and argued that supporters of the “defund the police” movement are “wrong.” “Democratic leaders are not supporting [Mamdani].

Mamdani is leading his major opponents beyond the margin of error in what is the largest NYC mayoral polling sample size to date.

When Zohran Mamdani met last month with the city’s top businesspeople, he was pressed by Rob Speyer, CEO of real estate giant Tishman Speyer, to explain a glaring gap in his agenda: How would he ensure that his vow to freeze rents for New York’s 1 million stabilized apartments does not bankrupt the city’s growing number of distressed apartment buildings?