Vickie Paladino: ‘It’s a Bit of an Open Wound’ for 9/11 Families to Have Someone Like Mamdani Sitting in City Hall

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PALADINO: “We’ve got — he has surrounded himself with everybody, and the people he supported for Congress in this last primary that we’ve had, people that want to wipe their hand on the American flag. You know, I’m not a patriot, I’ll never be a patriot. This is who Zohran Mamdani is. And we cannot be fooled by this smile and this person that he puts across. This stuff that he’s trying to do now to move himself towards the middle, you know, don’t play the victim, Zohran, because everything you do, everything you say is all — it’s all planned, down to the last second of everything that he does, everything that he says. When we went inside to bring those petitions, he was not there.”