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Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations.
In a victory for the Democratic party’s progressive wing, Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises.
With the victory, the democratic socialist will etch his place in history as the city’s first Muslim mayor, the first of South Asian heritage and the first born in Africa. He will also become the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on Jan. 1.
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My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.
One of the more interesting polls out of this was whether voters were casting in support of or against a candidate.
86% of Mamdani voters were voting out of support of their candidate.
Half of Cuomo voters were voting against another candidate. (Mamdani.)
Voting against a candidate is a losing strategy.
Please tattoo this onto every member of the DNC
Now that the Dems won EVERYTHING, by WIDE margins, it is clear that the Dems have the upper hand. Here’s what they should do now with the power they just took back:
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Double down on the shutdown, and demand even more concessions. Nothing less than full compliance will be sufficient. Otherwise, we’ll see where we are a year from now.
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Adopt a true progressive agenda. What happened to these MAGA Traitors is going to happen to MAGA-appeasing Democrats, too.
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Primary every weak Democrat - Schmuck Schumer, Jeffries, etc. They are almost as much the enemy as MAGA. If they lose, we get stronger, and if they win, they’ll know they dodged a bullet, and they better get with the new PROGRESSIVE program.
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Force their hand on everything. Make them reject even reasonable Democratic and Progressive demands. Don’t let them off the hook for anything, then use it against them viciously in the Midterms.
Meanwhile pundits on CNN is calling this a ‘warning lesson’. Anderson Cooper and crowd fear mongering even through victory.
For the next year, Progressives are dealing from a position of strength, and the Democrats, and especially the MAGAs, are in the defensive position.
The Establishment Dems will pretend they are all for it, but we know the real truth, and they will be doing everything they can to foil any Progressive gains.
MAGA has a choice - either ease up and get in step with where the CITIZENS of this country are going, or crack down hard on this budding Resistance.
They are as fucking stupid as stupid gets, so they will definitely choose #2. For the next year, expect them to be more oppressive than ever, and try to engineer some excuse to declare Martial Law, and suspend the Midterm elections.
No election has ever been cancelled in American history, not even during the Civil War. If he tries that, his administration becomes officially illegitimate, and every person who occupies a leadership position in the MAGA government should be declared a national security threat, and sent to the new 30,000 bed facility they are building there.
Oh, you don’t know about that? Oh, yeah, construction is underway at Guantanamo Bay on the biggest detention facility in America, about 20 times larger than the average maximum security prison, and far from the prying eyes of the courts or the media. They clearly intend to lock up a lot of people, and since it isn’t scheduled to be finished around 2029, I suspect they intend to use it to house all the citizens who will protest his third term, which he will win with 98% of the vote.
And the Establishment Dems will declare the election “Fair & Square,” even as their own voters are all locked up on a hostile foreign island.
Snapping my fingersssss
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Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.
Of course not.
After so many bad news the fact that Mamdani won NYC is such a relief.
First words in his victory speech were a a quote from Eugene Debs.
Let’s fuckin go
Okay. Commentators have been saying for a while that a victory for him could be a signal of the American left learning that actually progressive policies and candidates can be successful and on the Democrats as a whole actually moving to the left. Let’s hope that that’s actually true, rather than it being dismissed as “New York’s different”.
Hopefully, the recent buzz around AOC will help, too. I’ve been seeing more of Crockett in the news, as well.
We’ll see. This is definitely a very positive move, though.
I’d love to see AOC win the nomination in 2028, but we’re already seeing swaths of morons trying to get us to ‘fall in line’ for an establishment candidate.
I genuinely have no idea why people are still so stupid after all that’s transpired, but it’s really lowered my expectations of them going forward.
Are there still people out there moaning that “Americans won’t vote for a woman,” despite, y’know, Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote in 2016?
Let’s just have a primary without the DNC’s finger on the scale, and see how it shakes out.
My cynicism never wavered on the stupidity capable of the human race
I do hope they’ll realize that concrete policy proposals are such a huge part of what won here, not just Mamdani’s ideology or personality. The interview where he was asked about the bus plan being feasible was amazing, he had examples and numbers to back it up. It wasn’t just an “it would be cool” idea.
Competence is so rare in modern politics, that just doing what you’re supposed to do is seen as extraordinary.
Unfortunately yes.
This is great news. However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
Mamdani could not have had a better campaign, yet, he had just ~8% more votes. If the other guy ran a just tiny bit better campain, things could have been very different.
I am trully happy that Mamdani won, but yet, I am left scared at the state of things. He should have had 70/80% of votes. After all that has been happening in the US for the last 9 months or so, there is only a 8% number of votes separating the two sides? Holly molly, that is scary.
First of all, it was a 3 way race, against far better known candidates. He was running an untested Socialist campaign, against ferocious propaganda from BOTH sides. The voters had to remain courageous, ignore ALL that, and tell the “experts” that they didn’t care, something that they historically don’t tend to do. By all standard political theory, he should have been crushed by 50 points.
In America, many races are within a few points. It’s not at all unusual to have a race decided by only a point, or even less. In any race, an 8 point lead is significant. For an unknown Socialist, coming out of nowhere, against the most incredible bi-partisan smear campaign I’ve ever seen, to win by 8 points, is an enormous victory.
Both MAGA and established Democrats are terrified today. The Progressive Left just fired the first shots of the New Civil War, and hit every target.
I don’t think many established Democrats are terrified. If anything, they’re hopefully learning lessons. Get your damn fingers out of the wind trying to test which narrative will appeal to the most people, and instead do what makes sense and show an actual vision for what your district/city/state/country can look like.
Oh, they most definitely are terrified. They were endorsing Cuomo over Mamdani, despite Cuomo being poison, AND the fact that the voters were always extremely clear in their preference for Mamdani. They don’t fucking care what we want, they want us to do as we’re told.
These weakling motherfuckers better get on board, or they’re going to get run over. America is about to get a massive overhaul, and if the Establishment Dems don’t get their shit together, they will be considered as destructive as MAGAs, and will get kicked the political balls right along with them.
Great context, thanks.
As much of a POS as Cuomo is, he’s been elected before and a lot of older people trust him because of that, for reasons I can’t fathom. He was simultaneously a terrible candidate who also had a high floor.
Though I 100% agree that it’s disgusting how many Americans don’t seem to care about the character of their leadership, because it absolutely matters. You don’t get to whine about corrupt, uncaring politicians when you consistently reward them with your vote.
However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?
because too many Americans still think “wE aRE NoT thEre YEt!”
The enemies of progress own most of the major US news outlets. I think that is the biggest reason why so many people voted for a dipshit like Cuomo.
A second possibility is name recognition. Now that Zohran gets to run New York for awhile, his name and ideas will spread. That means during the next round of elections, he becomes the defending champ with all the advantages that brings to the table. If he is a good leader, he probably will have a much greater margin of votes than Cuomo ever did.
It’s all about money, and money brings out the worst in people.
There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa
Look at biden’s election, a few hundred thousand people, three of those 5 states by 30k.
One would think they would have tried to be popular after that.
People do not realize what is at stake and how both sides will fail them generally, or how tjey will not fail them as with mamdani.
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements: Not United States Internal News
This is local but the fascist takeover of America is not local, given the rise of the far right together and American bad actors funding and working abroad. So this news of someone on the left with a major win becomes relevant in the worldwide context.
NYC has lots of foreign residents and visitors, maybe the most of any USA city, so isn’t a foreign-born mayor there more than merely ‘internal news’? It’s not like the mayoral election of Nowhere, North Dakota.
All world news happens somewhere local. They should rename this com to “Not US News” if that’s how they want to define it and let people who live in the world post news that happens in the world to world news
This rule is legacy from Reddit, where r/news got dominated by US-centric news. r/worldnews was created to allow non-US news to be seen.
That said, I agree that this is a world news event. If nothing else, this may distract the Trump administration from international bullying for a while. Perhaps even redirect the Venezuelan invasion force to the NYC harbour…
legacy rules from reddit seem like exactly the kind of thing that should be scrutinized before being implemented.
New York has more economic influence on the world than most individual countries. This, economically speaking, is more significant than an eventful election for Australian PM.
The admin is inconsistant
It’s based on users sending in reports, and positive news for the left or news critical of Israel unleashes an army of rules lawyers.
The real concern is that with 8 million potential voters, NYC barely breaks 2 million.
This is why it’s always such a toss-up between fascism and normalcy - because too many people are complacent.
8.8 million population, which probably means a bit less than 7 million potential voters because kids and others can’t vote and it’s a relatively young city. Only 5 million registered to vote at present.
So still 2 million is worryingly low, but not as bad as if there were 8m potential voters.
Beautiful news. Fuck off Cuomo, fuck off Trump. This is a win for the common New Yorker. I hope the high profile nature of this mayoral election has reverberations far beyond NYC.
Hell yeah!!!
This is fantastic and I wish him the best. He’s going to need the best communications team any politician has had thus far. All the odds and big money interests are stacked against him. He’s going to be attacked from every conceivable angle, from every level of government. If he remains true and righteous, he’ll persevere.
If the dems are even half there at this point they will rally ny as a bastion and make that city shine. Show what proper government attention looks like. Unfortunately they will probably do absolutely nothing to help and many small things that manage to only hinder. Let’s hope he shines though it all.
That already happened during the election. Can’t say I’m worried about his PR team’s ability to handle the onslaught.
I fully expect the media to start manufacturing bullshit issues the second he’s sworn in though.
I’m enjoying the unhinged rants I’m seeing from conservative social media. They’re not happy and it’s a fantastic read
both the DNC(old guard, DInos) and the gop donors were going in with the propaganda against madamni for months
Yes, but they aren’t the ones making incoherent social media rants rn.
Hell even my local republican congressman got on the unhinged rant train. Only words he missed on the bingo card were 9/11 and communism
Really enjoyed the Daily Show’s quip about ushering in “a communist 9/11”, where every building takes a little damage.
What social media are you on where you see a bunch of right-wing diatribes…?
Basically any of my local news networks accounts and community pages/accounts.
Welcome to the south!
Even some leftists accounts I follow that are celebrating are getting brigaded by upset conservatives. Honestly it’s been good entertainment
What I think is truly wild: 800,000+ voters still voted against someone whose policies would have helped make their lives better.
They don’t call them useful idiots for nothing!
There were almost 80 millions just a year ago…
