New York Post’s anti-Mamdani front page is a hit – with his supporters
by Edward Helmore in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#719ET)
Wednesday's On your Marx, get set, Zo!' edition of the New York Post is a hot property - with one copy selling for $355
The New York Post's On your Marx, get set, Zo!" front page published just hours after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York mayor's race is proving a viral hit, with one vendor on eBay selling a print copy for $355 soon after it was listed for auction.
The Post's 5 November front page, with The Red Apple" headline featuring Mamdani holding up a Soviet-style hammer and sickle, is also being sold by the newspaper as a $75 metal print. Ironically - given the rightwing Rupert Murdoch-owned publication's staunch opposition to the mayor-elect, it's proving a hit with Mamdani supporters.
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