Trump, Chuck Schumer get booed at Mamdani watch party in Queenspublished at 02:23 GMT
Morgan Gisholt Minard
Reporting from New York
Image source, Morgan Gisholt Minard / BBC
At bohemian hall in Astoria, Queens, the watch party organised by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America reaches capacity before it even officially began – and a queue of hopeful Zohran Mamdani supporters stretches around the entire block.
Inside, a young and racially diverse crowd of over a thousand supporters – reflective of the coalition the young candidate has built – have filled the courtyard. They are alternately cheering as their candidate’s television advertisements fill the large screens hanging around the watch party, and booing when President Trump inevitably appears onscreen as part of election night coverage.
They also boo when the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer – their own senator from New York – appears on the television screens. Earlier today, and indeed throughout the campaign, Schumer has declined to endorse Mamdani.
“Look, I voted,” he said earlier to reporters on Capitol Hill. “And I look forward to working with the next mayor to help New York City.”
