{"id":118289,"date":"2026-06-30T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/can-zohran-mamdani-become-us-president-heres-what-he-said\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:36:07","slug":"can-zohran-mamdani-become-us-president-heres-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/can-zohran-mamdani-become-us-president-heres-what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Zohran Mamdani become US president? Here&#8217;s what he said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s political influence is growing, but a presidential bid remains out of reach. Despite meeting the age and residency requirements, the Constitution&#8217;s natural-born citizen clause disqualifies him, as he was born in Uganda. Mamdani, however, expressed contentment with the current constitutional framework, emphasizing his focus on New York City.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s political influence is growing, but a presidential bid remains out of reach. Despite meeting the age and residency requirements, the Constitution&#8217;s natural-born citizen clause disqualifies him, as he was born in Uganda. Mamdani, however, expressed contentment with the current constitutional framework, emphasizing his focus on New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":118290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}