Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
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A win for the people! Cuomo’s campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani’s. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
I’d like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad… money ain’t everything.
It is crazy what giving people to vote for something instead just against someone can do. Mamdani had to take on a class on billionaires and the old DNC leadership he who didn’t want to back him. It is funny af to see Chuck the leader of Dems show vote blue no matter who was fake. He most likely voted for Cuomo…
Someone uttered the words, “Bernie is unelectable”, and everyone jumped ship.
Think of a comparison between Trump and Bernie and the take away is that Bernie is the unelectable one…
Nice job NYC!
My country’s (very politically aligned) public news station described Mamdani as “communist” and “anti-Semitic”.
I am always a bit disgusted by Italian public service news station, this one was particularly telling at how biased it can be.
TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just “extremely targeted attacks against terrorists”
It’s so extremely targeted that it kills kids before they can become terrorist… /s
Pre-targeted strikes
I think you dropped a letter
Pre-K-targeted strikes
🤣🤣
Hopefully it should give you some insight into who that news station is meant to serve.
Here’s a hint: it’s not the public.
Is he not a Communist? :(
No, he’s a democratic socialist.
Damn :(
No. Democratic socialism is a philosophy that believes in democracy first, socialism second.
Not even close.
“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
It’s one thing to win a battle. It’s another to govern.
It remains to be seen if he can forge an alliance to govern the city.
Mamdani also faced scrutiny over his past comments criticizing the police and calling for it to be defunded, though he later issued a public apology to the New York Police Department during a Fox News interview.
Wtf
Lovely news to wake up to, thanks.
Let’s go!!!
Kinda expected. He was the only good option
This is what happens when you have rank choice voting. A democracy where progressive win.
M-A-M-D-A-N-I-!
You should learn how to pronounce it!
His only miss step the whole campaign was not saying “because you’re going to be saying/hearing it a lot” at the debate.
I thought that was implied?
The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was “I hope you re ready for another 9-11” because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
Why do you have conservative acquaintances?
Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.
“if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
The “acquaintance” needs a punch in the fucking face and a goodbye.
You do realize that having witty quotes doesnt change anything right? It might be rhetorically effective at face value, but there is no value other than hate at display here.
If hating nazis is wrong, I don’t want to be right
You’re kicking off over an acquaintance?
Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
Amen, brother/sister
I don’t actually think he will do that much due to how stacked the powers are against him, but I think he has shown to the powers that be how reviled they are, and how they need to start playing ball with progressives if they want to win votes again
My mother, the only family that I have left that I will talk to sent me a text asking if any other cities will have a “radical Islamist” mayor. I ignored it because I could not find the words to explain that what she described isn’t a thing without destroying the one connection to my family I have left.
That’s fucked up and sad. But maybe try to engage in an educated discussion to change her mind?
If a TV was able to “educate” her on what “radical islamist” is, surely a daughter should be able to convince own mother, with educated facts, on what it isn’t.
Shutting down discussions like this lets propaganda win and spread.
Your mom is gonna spread that shit to all her contacts, but if you put at least a small doubt in her mind, she might decide to keep it to herself at least.
“You really will believe anything they tell you”
Has 24-hour TV news cycle running in the background during phone calls
Fox News isn’t TV news…
By their own admission, they’re “entertainment”.
I mean we do too. We rely on information on the internet, which could all be fake. And that’s worrying me, actually. Have we been there in person? No? Then how do we know, actually?
Just like in science, you delegate your trust to experts in their field as reputable sources of information, since you yourself are not an expert
Your only responsibility is to locate such sources, rare though they may be. Always look at the URL of a news source, and if it’s not one you recognize, ignore the headline.
sounds like picking-your-side to me
It can be, though I’d urge anyone to go for balanced sources and recognize the biases of the URLs that frequently pop up
Drop that nazi bitch and find a better family.
It’s always strange to me whenever I hear people describe their relationships with their family members the way you would describe an ongoing argument with a troll baiting you in a youtube comments’ section.
I mean… she sent that to you apropos of nothing? Not even “How are the kids/How’s your job”? Just to get a reaction out of you?
I don’t understand modern-day American nuclear “family” dynamics at all…
“radical Islamist”
Lol “radical islamist” who supports LGBT rights?
(actual “radical islamists” would be anti LGBT)
And attends pub crawls.
Yes just like radical Christians, radical Muslims don’t like anything gay, female etc. There is a reason in some Middle Eastern countries women can’t go outside without a man “protecting” them.
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Fucking bitch.
I’m so sorry about that.
