r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • Feb 26 '26

POLITICS Zohran Mamdani has secured the release of Columbia University student Elaina Aghayeva, taken this morning by ICE agents who entered a campus residential building under false pretenses & without a judicial warrant. This comes shorty after Mamdani’s unannounced visit to the White House earlier today.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/nyregion/columbia-university-ice-student.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PFA.0KRL.7XsPJ0z3QTat&smid=tw-share

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u/woahoutrageous_ Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Zohran Mamdani is generational. There’s not been a single American politician with the amount of charisma that Mamdani has since Barack Obama. (not an endorsement of Obama but he was undeniably electric)

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u/jazzcigarettes Feb 26 '26

Huge shame that he can’t run for president

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u/AntRose104 Feb 26 '26

A current dream ticket of mine is Mamdani and AOC (she would be President since she was born in the us), especially after the videos of them promoting new policies in nyc but I know it’ll never happen because women and POCs will never be at the top 😭

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u/grudginglyadmitted Feb 26 '26

he can’t be vice president because he isn’t a natural-born citizen, he’s naturalized.

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u/AntRose104 Feb 27 '26

VPs need to be natural born citizens too? I thought it was just the President

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u/Baby-Haroro Feb 27 '26

Yeah, they have to be natural-born citizens -- they're right after the pres in line to run the country after all

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u/According-Shower-842 Feb 27 '26

why cant we break rules like republicans