WNBA champ Natasha Cloud shares support for socialist New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
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New York Liberty player Natasha Cloud has made her support for radical socialist Zohran Mamdani in the city's mayoral race very clear in recent days.
Cloud, who has been one of the WNBA's more outspoken players in discussing politics in recent years, celebrated Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primary on Wednesday in a series of social media posts.
Cloud sent an X post that featured one of Mamdani's regularly-used quotes, "We can be free, & we can be fed," tagging the candidate. Earlier that night, Cloud re-shared Mamdani's celebratory post.
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May 29, 2025; Brooklyn, New York, USA; New York Liberty guard Natasha Cloud (9) during a game against the Golden State Valkyries at Barclays Center. (John Jones-Imagn Images)
On June 18, Cloud re-shared a video from Mamdani addressing his reaction to being called an anti-Semite, and that same day Cloud wrote her own post expressing her support for the self-proclaimed democratic socialist.
"If I wasn’t a resident of PA, [Mamdani] is who would receive my vote," Cloud wrote.
In an interview with the sports blogging site "ClutchPoints," Cloud said that Mamdani's victory in the primary restored her "hope in humanity."
"He gets the worst PR because he's a Muslim, he's a socialist, and he's a democrat. But he believes that it is the government's right to take care and make sure that all its constituents live a dignified life, regardless of who you are, what your religious affiliation or background is. I think