NEW YORK — A new super PAC is funding phone bankers and canvassers to rally white working-class communities behind Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a broad array of independent groups involved in the mayor’s race coalesce against him.

Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national organization, registered the new pro-Mamdani PAC last Thursday, filings show.

Commonly known as SURJ, the organization focuses on rallying white people around progressive causes, including by making 2.5 million calls to voters during the 2024 presidential campaign urging them to not support President Trump.

The group’s leaders told the Daily News this week their new mayoral election PAC will focus on targeting white voters, too. The PAC, dubbed SURJ for a Livable New York, hasn’t raised any cash yet, filings show.

SURJ spokesman Chris Kutalik said he couldn’t immediately share a fundraising goal, but affirmed the PAC aims to have phone bankers make 500,000 calls to “white working-class voters” before November to hype up Mamdani while also “moving our members to knock doors in support of this victory to come.”

“Mamdani’s strong multiracial working-class agenda, with its emphasis on alternatives to policing, free child care, free and fast buses, city-owned grocery stores and his opposition to racism, Islamophobia and more are critically important,” Kutalik said, referencing Mamdani campaign promises.

Critics have blasted many of Mamdani’s proposals as unrealistic and potentially destructive, with a heavy reliance on boosting taxes on corporations that do business in the city and on wealthy New Yorkers.

Under the law, PACs can spend an unlimited amount of money on advocating for political candidates via ads and other means as long as they don’t coordinate directly with their campaigns on strategy and messaging. The lack of spending caps gives PACs outsize power in elections, both nationally and locally.

Another PAC, New Yorkers for Lower Costs, has also since the primary campaign focused on helping Mamdani. Per its latest filings, it sits on a war chest of about $500,000.

Most super PACs involved in November’s mayoral race, though, are lining up to oppose Mamdani, several with plans to roll out ad campaigns to highlight what they see as the democratic socialist’s dangerous agenda.

That includes Anyone but Mamdani, a PAC recently formed by Bo Dietl, an ex-NYPD detective and erstwhile friend of Mayor Adams. The Dietl PAC has since launching Aug. 1 raised at least $80,000, including a $10,000 donation from ex-Trump adviser and Andrew Cuomo pal Anthony Scaramucci.

Another PAC, Empower NYC, has raised more than $1 million to date and is spending to boost Adams’ long-shot independent bid for reelection.

Yet another PAC, called Save the City, was launched this summer by luxury real estate agent Eleonora Srugo, who plans to boost Adams and oppose Mamdani. Srugo’s PAC hasn’t raised any money yet, filings show.

The biggest PAC threat looming over Mamdani is Fix the City, which spent more than $22 million to prop up Cuomo and oppose Mamdani during the primary. Cuomo’s running against Mamdani as an independent in November, and Fix the City has continued to fundraise since his primary defeat, drawing in at least $3 million in the past two months.

Fix the City hasn’t said whether it plans to support any particular candidate in November, but, as The News recently reported, it’s looking to back a “free-market candidate” in the race.

A spokeswoman for Mamdani, who’s polling as the favorite to win November’s election, didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.

Mamdani’s victory in June’s Democratic mayoral primary came after his campaign mounted a rigorous field operation that involved tens of thousands of volunteers knocking on doors and otherwise interacting with voters across the city.

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