Fox News' Martha MacCallum to interview New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani will join Fox News' Martha MacCallum for an interview that will air on Wednesday The interview which marks Mamdani s first appearance on the infrastructure will air on The Story with Martha MacCallum at p m ET and will cover the state of the mayoral race less than three weeks out from Vote Day Mamdani a state lawmaker from Queens who identifies as a democratic socialist is at this time leading in the polls over former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo Mamdani won the Democratic primary over Cuomo and current New York City Mayor Eric Adams Adams dropped out of the race but Cuomo is still running as an independent Mamdani who turns this week is vying to become one of the youngest mayors in the city's history NYC MAYOR FLIPS SCRIPT ON MAMDANI AMID SCRAMBLE TO WALK BACK ANTI-POLICE RHETORICMamdani stands at sponsorship among likely voters according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted in early October Cuomo stands at help in the survey and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa stands at Mamdani's meteoric rise from unknown assemblyman to frontrunner to lead the country's largest city has astonished political observers His campaign has electrified progressives and spawned similar candidacies around the country Mamdani has also come under fire for several of his far-left program ideas including city-run grocery stores rent freezes free buses as well as his past anti-police rhetoric and controversial comments about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict TIMELINE EVOLUTION OF MAMDANI'S DEFUNDING POLICE RHETORIC TO THIS WEEK'S 'DAMAGE CONTROL'The candidate for New York City mayor was pressed on his rhetoric during an interview on The View earlier this month Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted Mamdani had previously called for defunding the police but since walked it back She also noted he called the NYPD racist anti-queer and a threat to citizens safety in but agreed that they deserve an apology How can New Yorkers trust you and not be concerned that consultants are getting in your ear to get you elected but you still hold all of those positions Griffin requested CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CIVILIZATION They can rest assured that it isn't consultants in my ear and I think this is another part of to be a young person looking to lead is also to leave the opening for expansion and understanding And I can tell you growing up in this city I thought often about safety and justice and I saw how justice was often left aside he reported