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.
I am Trump’s malignant hernia and I endorse this result.
Malignate faster please
I’m spreading the good news throughout his body as fast as I can.
I have here a crisp $50 with your name on it if you go any faster.
Seconded!
This is beautiful! I’ll be quoting you.
Godspeed
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.
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!”
People who vote for law and order or over things like “crime” that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.
I’m 100% for Mamdani, but wasn’t the sexual assault case dismissed against Cuomo? Some people really do get falsely accused of sexual assault and it ruins their life. We should not try to normalize calling him an assaulter if it’s not true.
It wasn’t 1 person that accused him. Are you saying 13 women got together and decided to lie? Also it was dismissed because the DA refused to prosecute. It didn’t even go to trial so these women didn’t even have an opportunity to tell their side in court.
“Investigators found the accounts of all 11 women to be credible and corroborated by a “mountain of evidence,” including emails and text messages. This report led to Cuomo’s resignation in August 2021.”
Yea, Clearly the poor guy was framed. /s
There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa
I’m jealous of NYC right now, wish someone had those sorts of policies in Portland.
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
Or brand. Lets go with branding, after a good hog tie when they try to run away. They aren’t the best trained of critters.
Candidates control which way those winds go by having ideas or not.
ZombiFrancis is a great username.
Kudos. Francis wasnt perfect but he seemed to try harder than average popes.Thanks, though it is a username I have used variously for probably 20+ years.
A long-term losing strategy, yet short term it normally reliably drums up support in the kind of range that can tip an election. Quite eye-opening to me that an election can still be won with far-from-center politics.
From dead war criminals to this, lots of good news today! Not necessarily making up for everything, but I’ll take it.
Prop 50 should be a done deal too, yeah?
According to CBS and ABC, yes.
My fucking dipshit redneck county voted no, always fucking backwards.https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-prop-50-results-2025/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/proposition-50-live-election-results-california-voters-weigh/story?id=126345346
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 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.
Not even strictly policy, but the way he conducted the campaign. He actually addressed the people standing in front of him in their language.
It’s a good step. We need to see action now. I think the reaction from the rest of the country is not encouraging that this is the falling of small stones that will start an avalanche. Not yet. Let’s see him govern and let’s see others like him step up.
My socialist heart feels hopeful, but my anarchist brain knows nothing will change.
He’ll spend all his time fighting off billionaires and their roadblocks
Better fighting to keep things from getting worse and worse then handing everything over to billionaires without any resistance. And if there’s one thing politics has been consistent on is that they don’t make our dreams come true, but they can make life even worse than it was previously. They got a real talent for that.
Maybe if we literally ate some of those billionaires it might help. Is the leader of our church Luigi Mangione freed from his unlawful religious persecution yet? And where are the Epstein files?
Apathy isn’t revolutionary. We must fully support leftist candidates while also being critical of their platform and aware that electoral politics inside a capitalist system will only get us so far. But never losing hope that more people see the light and become class conscious.
Did you guys hear about the one time he broke up with his girlfriend in high-school?! Gave her the whole it’s not you, it’s me line. How could anyone vote for that!
Source: you were the girlfriend. But you were in Canada, so we didn’t know you.
Ya and I’m 1/19th Jewish. Antisemitic and broke my heart. Someone get me on fox news!
Welp time to go grab a beer so I can toast to this! That is a kickass win.
Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.
Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?
Texas has a tiny net mirgation rate. Its not much of a threat. Its a shithole state, like most states with republican leadership. Musk is trying to get back into the bay area as we speak, and a lot of people who moved there from California for a cheaper life have found that its no cheaper than California, and less comfortable of a place in nearly every way-- so they are moving back again at great expense.
agreed, gtfo to all the people who said they’d leave, and dont come back.
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.
Maybe because voting in a week day is troublesome? In most countries, elections are held on weekends. I don’t understand why “the land of the free” does it differently.
Yep, and as always, the hardest working and least well-off are punished by a system that either doesn’t have them in mind or purposefully excludes them.
Would love to know shift-workers are expected to vote when they work 7-7 or whatever else. Night workers that sleep most of the day, etc.
National Guard deployed to NYC because Antifa riots in 3 … 2 … 1
I don’t know if all the horrendous shit I see happening in the US right now is happening in New York but it doesn’t seem so.
Something tells me New Yorkers wouldn’t put up with any of that shit lying down.
No that’s been done to death. I think they’ll move on to bombing the city or poisoning the water or some other horrible thing.
Finally some good fucking news
It’s almost like the most hated man in New York endorsing his opponent helped him in some way.
Mamdani is a pretty good politician as well, not perfect, but good.
