{"id":10803,"date":"2025-11-06T17:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10803"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:48:20","slug":"will-grace-star-debra-messing-faces-major-backlash-for-brutal-message-to-zohran-mamdani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10803","title":{"rendered":"Will &#038; Grace star Debra Messing faces major backlash for brutal message to Zohran Mamdani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"318\"><strong data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"158\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral victory has stirred strong emotions.<\/strong> Many critics have attacked him over his religion and background, including <em data-start=\"234\" data-end=\"248\">Will &amp; Grace<\/em> star <strong data-start=\"254\" data-end=\"271\">Debra Messing<\/strong>, who\u2019s now facing backlash for her comments.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"604\">Mamdani, 34, won the New York City mayoral race with <strong data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"394\">50.4% of the vote<\/strong>, defeating independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. Similar to the attacks Kamala Harris faced, Mamdani\u2019s opponents have targeted his <strong data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"540\">Muslim faith<\/strong>, drawing support from far-right circles and some celebrities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"930\">Messing, a Brooklyn native, endorsed Cuomo on Instagram but also reposted a meme labeling Mamdani a <strong data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"731\">\u201ccommunist jihadist.\u201d<\/strong> The post, originally from the account <em data-start=\"770\" data-end=\"786\">Persian Jewess<\/em>, framed the race as a \u201cbattle for democracy.\u201d Social media users quickly condemned Messing, calling her remarks <strong data-start=\"899\" data-end=\"909\">racist<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"927\">offensive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"932\" data-end=\"1112\">In another post, she referred to Mamdani as <strong data-start=\"976\" data-end=\"1000\">\u201cOsama Bin Mamdani,\u201d<\/strong> further fueling outrage. Despite the smear campaign, Mamdani addressed the controversy in his victory speech:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1217\">\n<p data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1217\">\u201cI am young, I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist \u2014 and I refuse to apologize for any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zohran Mamdani\u2019s mayoral victory has stirred strong emotions. Many critics have attacked him over his religion and background, including Will &amp; Grace star Debra Messing, who\u2019s now facing backlash for her comments. Mamdani, 34, won the New York City mayoral race with 50.4% of the vote, defeating independent candidate Andrew Cuomo. Similar to the attacks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10803\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Will &#038; Grace star Debra Messing faces major backlash for brutal message to Zohran Mamdani&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10805,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions\/10805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}