Mamdani Campaign Dishes Out Millions To Firm Of Key Media Strategist For Obama Campaigns: 'she's The Best'

FIRST ON FOX: The run of New York City’s Democratic socialist mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani has dished retired millions to nan patient of a cardinal media strategist that helped style nan media-buying strategy of erstwhile President Barack Obama's campaigns.

Over nan past fewer months, campaign finance records show nan Mamdani squad has disbursed complete $3 cardinal to nan Los Angeles-based Debra Schommer Media Group for expenditures that were described arsenic going toward tv ads, TV accumulation and integer advertising. 

Schommer has much than 30 years of acquisition successful nan media readying and buying field, according to her website bio, and lists herself arsenic a erstwhile head of media readying and buying for AKPD Message and Media, a consulting patient started by Obama confidantes David Axelrod and David Plouffe.

Schommer's website besides touts her activity managing and forming media strategies for governmental campaigns, including nan statesmanlike campaigns of Obama and erstwhile Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who unsuccessfully ran for president successful 2020.

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The run of New York City’s Democratic socialist mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani has dished retired millions to nan patient of a cardinal strategist who helped pinch Obama's campaigns. (Getty)

"As nan Director of Media Planning and Buying for David Axelrod, since nan inception of Axelrod and Associates (which later formed AKPD Message and Media), Debra built nan department, led, managed, and worked connected media strategies for Democratic candidates – Local, State, and Presidential (including Obama and Buttigieg), Independent Expenditures, and Advocacy campaigns," her bio reads.

"She made judge each dollar we spent counted," Axelrod wrote successful support of Schommer's work. "She’s nan best!"

Schommer's archived bios from 2009-2015 connected AKPD's website listed her arsenic nan head of media planning/buying and later nan vice president of media planning, describing her arsenic "a seasoned and skilled expert" and saying she has an "impeccable estimation successful nan media organization on pinch being known for her passion and committedness to politics."

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Democratic mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani speaks astatine his superior predetermination party, June 25, 2025, successful New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

In summation to Plouffe and Axelrod, an archived AKPD website says Mike Donilon, a decades-long advisor to erstwhile President Joe Biden and Democratic strategist, was a partner astatine nan firm. 

Reports from 2008 said AKPD had received complete $2 cardinal from nan Obama campaigns since 2005 and played an instrumental domiciled successful trading Obama to voters. AKPD would later make headlines nan pursuing twelvemonth aft it was revealed it was 1 of 2 firms "working connected nan $24 cardinal successful ads" trading nan ObamaCare push.

"Mamdani and his squad will propulsion millions astatine voters to tally from his positions," Targeted Victory Executive VP Matt Gorman told Fox News Digital. "Consultants tin activity wonders, but they're not occurrence workers. A communist is still a communist."

In summation to Mamdani, a Fox News Digital reappraisal recovered that her patient played an instrumental domiciled successful crafting tv advertisement buys for far-left "Squad" Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush, who were some defeated past twelvemonth during their Democratic primaries. Both ex-lawmakers were vocal astir defunding nan police, on pinch different extremist proposals for illustration reparations, and their campaigns dished retired hundreds of thousands of dollars to Schommer's firm, according to nan FEC website.

Mamdani's surge to nan forefront of nan governmental scenery has sparked divisions wrong nan Democratic Party betwixt moderates who person opposed his socialist level and nan progressive helping led by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Mamdani.

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Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Barack Obama huddles pinch David Axelrod earlier speaking to supporters successful Erie, Pennsylvania, connected April 18, 2008. (Getty)

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In nan aftermath of Mamdani's superior triumph past month, nan Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) highlighted that "this activity is bigger than 1 person, election, city, aliases organization."

"We promote each group inspired by nan Zohran run to subordinate their section DSA aliases YDSA section and get progressive truthful we tin proceed to conflict alongside Zohran and DSA elected officials crossed nan state to create nan early we each deserve," they added successful a statement.

Fast-forward to Wednesday, and DSA leaders are apparently mulling moving superior challengers against Jeffries arsenic good arsenic different House Democrats whose districts are successful New York City, including Reps. Ritchie Torres, Jerry Nadler, Dan Goldman and Yvette Clarke.

However, Democratic strategist Andre Richardson, a apical Jeffries governmental advisor, pushed backmost hard and told CNN that they will "teach" Mamdani's "Team Gentrification" friends "a achy instruction connected June 23, 2026."

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.