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.
although I would prefer to see more secular politicians, if we are going to have a leader who’s religious its good to have more diversity so christians don’t gain too much of a majority
I just hate how he promotes “affordable” housing and does nothing to advocate work from home. Every affordable unit is booked 10yrs in advance while developers build 150 condos and have 10 affordable. Literally tricky dickle down economics.
It has been fucking glorious to see racist white men foaming at the mouths in a psychotic tantrum over this.
Their pain and tears brings good vibes and energy unto us all
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.
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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
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?
Luigi is innocent. The person who actually did it did more than anyone can reasonably act and I hope he lives a long and quiet life.
And the Epstien files… fuck me, I knew some criminals go to incredible lengths to cover their misdeeds but the fact that he is tearing down an entire country from the world stage in such a brazen manner is incredible.
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.
Does anyone have a breakdown of the wins for traditional Democrats and Progressives?
Lets fucking goo progressives
a bunch of other states have democratic wins as well. missispi supermajority in the house was broken for the first time by democrats, virginia, and another state.
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.
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.
Candidates control which way those winds go by having ideas or not.
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.
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.
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.
If I had a nickel for every time someone told the Dems to adopt a truly progressive agenda and it not really happening I could retire.
Our system is incompatible with radical change.
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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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.
Great context, thanks.
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.
Who endorsed Cuomo?
I read that Mamdani polled at 1% back in February, about 9 months ago. Cuomo was a former governor of the state, so was his father, and his brother had a show on CNN so they had stacked named recognition. Thankfully negative recognition as well, given Andrew’s behavior. Still, to go from 1% to over 50% in 9 months is an incredible result for Mamdani.
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.
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!”
It’s all about money, and money brings out the worst in people.
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
You don’t have to flip a lot of votes to steal an election, just the right number, in the right places. That’s how you end up with Trump at the top of an otherwise straight Democratic ticket. Both Dems and Republicans claim there were millions of them, and they were all concentrated in the swing states, for some unexplained reason.
And yet, I’ve never met one of those split ticket voters, nor have I ever seen one on TV. Have you?
Split tickets in the Swing States. That’s according to both parties, who agree that the one election that was necessary to keep Trump out of prison was the only thing in his entire life that he DIDN’T cheat on, and the election was “Fair & Square.”
Not saying you’re off base, but take a look at New Hampshire. We love to split. We currently have a Republican governor, entirely Dem congressional delegation, and did NOT go for Trump last November.
I’m a social anarchist and I’m loath to admit it, but I voted for our R governor in 2020 during COVID because he was doing a good job managing the crisis. Guy was a total cheeseball otherwise, but he was holding daily press conferences and pushing reasonable policy that kept case counts low during the worst of it.
It’s my first time and hopefully only time voting R. I just didn’t think we needed to change things up during such a crisis when it was being managed well, and we’ve had totally ineffective D governors in the past who could have really screwed things up. It also helps that our gubernatorial terms are only 2 years rather than 4 and, yeah, I was pretty sick of him by the end of the 2 years.
The 2 party split has always been a bit different in New England, especially VT, NH and ME. Our Republicans have tended to be somewhat reasonable people you disagree with, but could still hang out with and they could be trusted to get things done in their own way. (It’s probably due to our education actually being somewhat high-quality lol). National identities are starting to creep their way in as the old guard dies out, however.
So there, now you have met a split ticket voter.
I’m not saying that people don’t vote split tickets. Of course they do. I’m an Unaffiliated Independent, I voted split tickets for years, until the Republican Party decided to officially become the party of Treason & Corruption.
I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about voting a straight Democratic ticket, with TRUMP at the top. Not some random Republican for dogcatcher - Trump. The idea that strong Democrats could vote an entire straight ticket, but still vote for Trump is ludicrous.
You claim to be a split ticket voter for governor, but were you a split ticket voter for Trump? Do you know anybody up there in split-ticket land that were? Have you even HEARD of such a person?
I’m sure there are few, but they are as rare as white squirrels. There certainly weren’t millions of them, and the real problem is that BOTH parties leaped on the “fair & square” bullshit almost as soon as the polls closed. There were no studies, no investigations, etc. into what was certainly the crookedest election in America history. They didn’t even demand it, only to be turned down by the controlling MAGAs. They just decided to cooperate with the psychopathic MAGAs and pretend it didn’t happen. The Democrats themselves, the injured party, seemed to jump to that conclusion faster and harder than even the Republicans. The Dems were clearly too cowardly to take on that fight, so they just surrendered the American people to the treasonous Nazis pedophiles.
It is because of things like this that the American people have lost ALL confidence in the Democratic party. The MAGAs are excited by that, and in their limited lack & white view of the world, they think it means that the American people love MAGA instead. They are too intellectually limited to understand that it is possible for the American people to despise BOTH parties for their betrayals.
What we want is a hard reset, and a new try at a new government, one that is truly “Of the People, For the People, and By the People,” and NOT the Sociopathic Oligarchs. They caused this mess, and they’re going to pay for it.
Yeah, you raise multiple very good points. I wooshed what you were saying pretty hard
There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa
Looking forward to see if all the people that announced they would leave NYC if he won are going to keep their promise.
agreed, gtfo to all the people who said they’d leave, and dont come back.
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.
That’s a good idea, you get right on that, Wheels.
“So ya leavin’ or what? You a man a ya word? What kind of apartment ya got? How far is the subway? Whataya paying? You really should keep your word and get the fuck outta here, know what I’m sayin’?”
“Hey! I’m walkin’ here!”
Just like all those millionaires that left the UK…
and the UK was a better place for their leaving.
Of course not.
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.
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.
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.
Let’s just have a primary without the DNC’s finger on the scale, and see how it shakes out.
Difficulty: impossible
*mission impossible theme starts
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?
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.
Not even strictly policy, but the way he conducted the campaign. He actually addressed the people standing in front of him in their language.
Competence is so rare in modern politics, that just doing what you’re supposed to do is seen as extraordinary.
Unfortunately yes.
Based woke brown man. Cope and seethe chuds.
Based woke brown man
You talking about jesus??
He wasn’t based, he was nailed.
Nailed it
And I heard he was hung like this
then impaled by the spear of longinus
…then we can dig it!
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.
First words in his victory speech were a a quote from Eugene Debs.
Let’s fuckin go
This is the first time I can recall when a politician keeps saying things that make me like him more.
quote from Eugene Debs
I had to look that one up. Good reference.
congratulations and many more days to come for which to deal with the ruling class
