NYC Mayor Mamdani jumps into pool in swimsuit, sparks conflict with Bruce Blakeman

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took a weird plunge into an East Harlem public pool absolutely wearing a enterprise swimsuit to kick off summer time Saturday, however the spectacle was shortly overshadowed by a fiery conflict with a prime New York Republican.

Video captured the mayor leaping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool absolutely clothed and swimming with youngsters to have fun the ninetieth anniversary of town’s Works Progress Administration-era outside swimming pools. 

The occasion was supposed to focus on expanded free swim packages and the historic legacy of the Olympic-sized services.

However, the celebratory splash shortly turned political as Mamdani focused New York GOP gubernatorial candidate and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, demanding an apology for latest feedback Blakeman made about Democratic Socialists of America-backed congressional candidate Brad Lander.

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FILE – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was seen on video leaping into the Thomas Jefferson Pool absolutely clothed. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Following Lander’s NY-10 congressional main victory over Dan Goldman, Blakeman stated in a Newsmax interview that Lander “would be a camp guard in a concentration camp if he could.”

Mamdani defended Lander, calling him a “proud Jewish New Yorker” and describing Blakeman’s feedback as “unacceptable and unconscionable.” 

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FILE – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks in assist of Brad Lander, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s tenth Congressional District, in Carroll Park within the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn on June 14. (Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post through Getty Images)

Mamdani added he thought the comparability likening Lander to a “Nazi prison guard” was “disgusting”, and argued it was indicative of a Republican Party combating to “dehumanize anyone they disagree with.”

Blakeman fired again on the mayor’s calls for Saturday afternoon, saying the mayor lacks credibility.

FILE – Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County govt and Republican candidate for New York governor, is operating to unseat Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and has secured President Donald Trump’s endorsement. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

“This is coming from the same guy who wouldn’t march in the Israel Day Parade, called AIPAC members ‘monsters,’ and canceled the Puerto Rican Day Breakfast,” Blakeman advised Fox News Digital. “Zohran Mamdani has no credibility. He is a bigot, an antisemite, and anti-American.”

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Mamdani didn’t instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.

Fox News Digital editor Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.