US EditionZohran Mamdani Elected Mayor of New York City
Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City's first Muslim, South Asian, and millennial mayor by winning on a platform addressing affordability and immigrant rights with strong grassroots support.
- On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani clinched New York City's mayoralty, becoming the first Muslim and Indian-American mayor and youngest in over a century when he takes office Jan. 1.
- Mamdani's platform prioritized housing affordability, fare-free transit and universal childcare, building a coalition of working-class voters, young progressives and labor unions with endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
- NBC News exit polling showed Mamdani won broad racial support, voters under 45 favored him by 43 points, and more than 57,000 cast early ballots in Queens borough.
- Republican strategists say the Republican Party will target Mamdani nationally, as his win could influence next year's midterm elections for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
- Mamdani faces the immediate task of uniting Albany and the New York City Council to enact his agenda, while his pro-Palestinian activism will test balancing free speech and the concerns of 1.6 million Jewish residents.
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Bring Back the Mayoral Transition Tent
“Rather than rely solely on the new mayor or pundits to interpret the results, the transition tents served as an informal poll of what New Yorkers really wanted.” Former First Lady Chirlane McCray visiting the “Talking Transition Tent” in lower Manhattan in November 2013. (Credit: Rob Bennett for the office of Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio) More than a decade ago, New York City prepared for a new mayor who’d energized the electorate with big promis…
Stephen Kessler | Personality, ideology and competence
Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old wunderkind mayor-elect of New York City, is a Rorschach test, or a funhouse mirror, where people are seeing their political hopes or fears or distorted reflections as they wait in anxious anticipation of what he portends for New York, the nation and the Democratic Party. His skillful performance in the mayoral campaign, his optimism and charisma, his social media chops and his bold proposals for making the city mo…
Zohran Mamdani—Bankruptcy Trustee for the Socialist Republic of Gotham
by David Stockman, Lew Rockwell: Despite all the gumming this morning about New York City’s allegedly shocking election of a self-professed socialist mayor, the real point is that New York City is already tantamount to a Welfare State dystopia. The election of Mamdani, therefore, is more in the nature of a pre-needs bankruptcy filing, which […]
Democratic Socialist Mamdani, Other Democrats Win November Elections
“In his victory speech Mamdani told his supporters that as mayor, ‘We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks'. Directly addressing the president, he said, ‘New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So, hear me, President Trump, when I say this: To get to any of us, you…
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