Vance takes credit for New York’s progress. Mamdani claps back.
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Source report: 2026-11-03 · Event: Date not established
Read original story ↗After JD Vance promoted a White House graphic claiming credit for New York's progress, Mayor Zohran Mamdani replied with a nine-second clip of a man pretending to stop and push a subway train. The wordless joke challenged Vance's claim to credit. Separately, NYPD figures show 203 murders in the first nine months of 2026, a record low for that period; the figures alone do not establish which policies caused the decline.
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