Staten Island Dem chair stepping down over backlash for supporting socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral bid

New York’s Democratic Civil War has opened up a new battlefront on Staten Island.

The most recent casualty is the head of the borough’s Democratic Party, who is stepping down over backlash she faced for unilaterally backing socialist Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor, sources told The Post.

“Staten Island is not Mamdani Country” and party chairwoman Laura LoBianco Sword “went out of her way to endorse him without the executive committee’s support, and people are in an uproar,” said a top borough Democratic operative…

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