PULSE POINTS
WHAT HAPPENED: Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani endorsed decriminalizing prostitution in a televised interview.
WHO WAS INVOLVED: Zohran Mamdani, prostitutes, pimps, and New York City residents.
WHEN & WHERE: September 2025, during a Good Day New York interview.
KEY QUOTE: “Yes,” Mamdani confirmed his support for decriminalizing prostitution.
IMPACT: Mamdani’s stance highlights his extreme soft-on-crime stance, which also includes previously expressing support for abolishing prisons and defunding the police.
IN FULL
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, reiterated his support for decriminalizing prostitution in America’s most populous city. The Twelver Muslim, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), was confronted on the DSA’s support for legal prostitution and his own co-sponsorship of a legal prostitution bill in the New York State Assembly in a Good Day New York interview, with the hostess telling him, “A lot of people are concerned, especially if you go to Queens, Roosevelt Avenue, the people who live and work around there, who have to walk their kids past there, are very concerned. Young kids are being prostituted there. People are concerned where you stand on that; where do you divorce yourself from the Democratic Socialists of America?”
Mamdani said his platform is separate from the Democratic Socialists’ platform, but, when pressed, admitted that “Yes,” he does support decriminalizing prostitution. “What we have to bring to City Hall is a focus on ending sex trafficking; on ensuring that there is no tolerance for violence against women, and also having safety at the cornerstone of all the policies that we pursue.”
He claimed the “World Health Organizations” [sic] and a United Nations working group both found that decriminalizing prostitution provides the most “safety” for prostitutes.
Mamdani subscribes to a range of far-left, soft-on-crime policies, including the abolition of prisons, or “decarceration,” and defunding the police—although he has begun downplaying his past, vociferous support for these causes as he attempts to win the support of regular voters.
He also plans to spend an additional $100 million on legal aid for migrants to fight deportation.
Today on GDNY . @rosannascotto asked NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he was pro decriminalizing prostitution.
After a word salad and Rosanna holding firm , Zohran admits he’s in support of decriminalizing prostitution throughout NYC. pic.twitter.com/nhPLzn89ey
— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) September 29, 2025
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