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In a post-election message, Barack Obama congratulated “all the Democratic candidates who won tonight,” but did not mention Zohran Mamdani by name.
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.
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