In my early analysis of what made Mamdani the nominee, I noted that there was high turnout by the Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim settler population in New York City combined with really low turnout and enthusiasm by traditional Democrats who weren’t exactly enthused by Cuomo et al. The 5% of New Yorkers who voted in the primary were very much a minority. This was a campaign driven by Mamdani’s fellow Indian Muslims in occupied Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Not even in the United States.
More and more people are pointing to Mamdani’s fake social media engagement coming from bot farms out of Pakistan and India rather than from actual New York City social media users. The X feed is flooded with random promotion of Mamdani coming from accounts that otherwise had few likes or views suddenly ballooning into the tens and hundreds of thousands. This is not organic engagement, but manufactured hype driven by enemy foreign nations rigging a US election.
The New York Post has an extensive workup.
According to analytics compiled from Mamdani’s social media accounts, reviewed by The Post, between June 1 and July 1, Mamdani’s Instagram followers jumped from 213,000 to nearly 3 million — a 1,295% surge — while TikTok grew more than 1,000%.
As the primary election neared, engagement by users in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh outnumbered those in the US. Coordinated messages like “Let’s go bhai!” (“brother”) were repeated in more than 750 nearly identical comments on Instagram.
Identical indeed. The emphasis was on driving turnout by Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim settlers in New York City.
DRUM Bangladeshi turnout jumped 13% over 2021 levels; Pakistani turnout rose 11%. DRUM bragged that “almost half of all registered Bangladeshis came out to vote.” In a September story on DRUM, the New York Times reported that turnout among South Asians in the primary increased by a staggering 40% compared to 2021.
The Post story documents how this intersects with pro-Hamas groups and Communist Chinese front groups.
This is what foreign election interference looks like.
