Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's campaign visit to Staten Island was met with strong opposition, including protests and signs supporting Trump. Artist Scott Lobaido, who vocally protested the event, described his confrontation with law enforcement over using a megaphone without a permit. He expressed confidence that most of Mamdani's young supporters would reconsider their stance by Election Day, emphasizing the concerns of local businesses and residents who he felt would reject Mamdani's socialistic ideologies as damaging to the city.
Honestly, [the cops] gave me half an hour with that megaphone. I'm told the opposition really puts the pressure down and then [the cops] have to do what they are hired to do, you know, it's the law. 'Scott, give us the megaphone or we're going to have to arrest you.' And I'm like, I'm going to take that chance, I need to use this megaphone, and so they did what they were supposed to do. So everything's good, it's all good, it is what it is. But the beauty is that he saw my face, and more of us were at that gathering than the people were there to see him. That was the beauty of it.
The young kids that are lost, they fall for him, but that's a fraction... Democrats, liberals and independents who have businesses, families, properties, investment in the city, are going to look at this little Communist who will destroy this city like nothing that's ever happened in this country before and they are going to say, 'Absolutely not!'.
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