DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani. The post DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. appeared first on The Intercept .
Last year, DoorDash spent approximately $1.4 million on its campaign to prevent Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor, even though the company was about to reach a $131.5 million settlement with New York City for underpaying 264,000 delivery workers. This was the largest worker settlement in the city's history at the time. DoorDash's $1 million contribution to a super PAC called Fix the City was the largest donation in the 2025 mayoral race, making the company one of the top donors to the biggest outside spender in the election.
Fix the City, funded largely by big corporations and billionaires, ran a barrage of ads and other forms of political communication against Mamdani, portraying him as a politician with "radically dangerous ideas" and a "risk New York can't afford." Mamdani had promised to regulate delivery apps and provide further protections for delivery workers, which earned him support from delivery worker groups.
The settlement with DoorDash, announced by Mamdani, brings further scrutiny to those donations and the company's conduct.
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