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Zohran Mamdani won with 15% of voters who did not back Kamala Harris in 2024, driven by young, diverse voters focused on local economic and policy issues.
- On Nov. 4, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won with high turnout that included many new voters.
- Mamdani's new voters were younger, more ethnically diverse, and less affluent, prioritizing housing affordability and economic issues, with 44% earning under $50,000 annually.
- CBS News polling found 15% of Mamdani's voters didn't back Harris last year, including about 60,000 Trump-to-Mamdani voters and 70,000 2024 non-voters, according to the CBS News Voter Poll and SSRS.
- As Democrats chart a path forward, they can replicate gains by turning out supporters or persuading others, as similar dynamics helped wins in New Jersey and Virginia this year.
- Many of these voters decided late—about 60,000 in the last month—and the NYC electorate remains sizable but not nationally representative.
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Zohran Mamdani and the Limits of American Progressivism
When New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as their mayor on 4 November, many commentators and politicians treated the result as a political earthquake. In his victory speech, Mamdani also adopted the language of epochal change. “New York will remain a city of immigrants,” he told supporters, “a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Then, quoting Jawaharlal Nehru, he cast his election as a wild ne…
Calm down about Zohran Mamdani
Last Tuesday, a self-identified democratic socialist who ran on making New York affordable for the 99% won the city’s mayoral race in a landslide, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. And the reactions have been predictably hysterical.Some critics are claiming that Mamdani will impose Sharia law and turn New York into Venezuela. Business leaders and billionaires are warning about a mass exodus. The Washington Post editorial board sees "class …
The strong victory of the socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in the New York City elections is the Democratic Party’s most significant achievement in this electoral cycle. His broad coalition—which encompassed social classes, races, and all districts except Staten Island— gave him a decisive victory in the country’s most populous city and made him the most visible Democratic leader in the United States. However, his rise also reveals a profound p…
The wife of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is an acclaimed artist and illustrator. Yet politicians' wives, like the future First Lady of New York, are often seen by the public as just "someone's wife." This young lady is quietly rebelling against that.
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