Mamdani's Wife Deleted Her Posts. Researchers Found Them Anyway. New York's Media Doesn't Want You to Know.
A series of posts by Mamdani's wife, unearthed by researchers, raise questions the campaign has so far refused to answer
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Rama Duwaji's Deleted Posts and Questions of Selective Media Coverage
Zohran Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, faced public scrutiny in March 2026 after researchers and conservative outlets unearthed old social media posts from her teenage years and early 20s. The posts — which included racial slurs, homophobic language, praise for Palestinian terrorists, and strong anti-Israel sentiments — had been deleted from her accounts but were preserved through internet archives and screenshots. The episode has drawn attention to uneven media coverage and questions about transparency in the Mamdani campaign.
The Resurfaced Posts
The Washington Free Beacon first reported the posts, documenting content in which Duwaji used the N-word and anti-gay slurs, celebrated figures including plane hijacker Leila Khaled, and engaged with content that appeared to downplay elements of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. Many of the posts dated to when she was a teenager.
Duwaji apologized in an April 2026 interview, saying she felt "a lot of shame" for the harmful language and that her age at the time did not excuse it.
Campaign Response
The Mamdani campaign dismissed the story as a "bad-faith smear campaign" orchestrated by political opponents, characterizing scrutiny of his wife — a private citizen with no official role — as a form of harassment. The campaign did not offer substantive responses to the specific content of the archived posts.
Uneven Media Coverage
Right-leaning outlets including the Washington Free Beacon, NY Post, Fox News, and The Free Press covered the story extensively. Coverage from mainstream and left-leaning New York media organizations was more limited — often brief, buried, or absent. That disparity has drawn criticism from press watchers who argue that a Republican candidate's spouse facing similar disclosures would have received considerably more sustained attention across the full media spectrum.
Questions of Transparency
The deletion of the posts — rather than leaving them up with context — suggests an awareness that the content carried political risk. Critics note that Mamdani has built his political identity around demanding accountability and transparency from institutions, making the campaign's defensive posture on his own household's record a point of contention for voters weighing his candidacy.
