, Nov. 4 -- Democratic Socialist and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said US President Donald Trump is "threatened" by his campaign, after Trump warned voters that the city would face a "complete and total economic and social disaster" if Mamdani won Tuesday's mayoral election.

"You can clearly see that Donald Trump is threatened by our campaign," Mamdani told CNN on Monday, the eve of the election. "He's threatened because, like him, we've diagnosed the crisis in working-class New Yorkers' lives - the cost of living. But unlike him, we're actually going to deliver on it."

Mamdani criticized Trump for "wasting" USD 300 million on remodeling a White House ballroom - funds he said could instead provide food assistance to 10...