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The torrential downpour that hit New York City on Saturday afternoon didn't appear to dampen enthusiasm for the "political revolution" in the slightest—at least on the campus of Brooklyn College, where hundreds of soddened people crammed into the Tow Center for the Performing Arts for the local stop on Bernie Sanders's barnstorming "Fighting Oligarchy" tour.
The venerable Sanders, seemingly unaged over the past decade—even as he turns 84 (today, in fact, HBD Bernie), was joined onstage by a politician almost exactly 50 years his junior—Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani, who often credits Sanders's 2016 run for president as awakening him to the political movement of democratic socialism. The two spent earlier parts of Saturday in Astoria alongside another thirtysomething protégée of Sanders, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Both AOC and Bernie endorsed Mamdani in the Democratic primary, but Saturday marked the first event that Sanders held with Mamdani. (Mamdani spoke about how he first began canvassing for his own Assembly campaign at Sanders's 2020 post-heart attack rally in Queensbridge.)