Netanyahu Arrest: Mamdani Team Considered How to Pivot Away From Campaign Pledge During Mayoral Transition

It was not off-the-cuff stuff.

“We knew it was going to be asked, and there was some discussion internally,” says Andrew Bard Epstein, the communications director and later creative director for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. “I certainly was pushing for him to make this arrest declaration.”

It wasn’t just about the recent news out of the ICC. In…