Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent part of the weekend of June 20 working the dance floors of Bushwick and Ridgewood, turning nightclub stages into campaign stops for Assemblymember Claire Valdez and a slate of other candidates days before the June 23 Democratic primary. The mayor’s club circuit was first reported by Hell Gate in its Morning Spew newsletter.

The stops included Xanadu, where Mamdani stunned a Bushwig host, and Paragon, where he gave a short speech, along with other venues across the two neighborhoods. Valdez is the Democratic Socialists of America candidate in New York’s 7th Congressional District, the seat retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez is leaving open, and Mamdani has made her one of his marquee endorsements this cycle.

In an appearance alongside Valdez, NY-13 candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, and NY-10 candidate Brad Lander, the mayor did a somewhat faithful, if Australian-accented, impression of Iain Stirling, the Scottish narrator of “Love Island.” The accent, per Hell Gate, was the part that didn’t land.