Posted on 11/04/2025 6:56:15 PM PST by Phoenix8
The Fox News Decision Desk has projected that New York City will elect Democratic Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor. The self-described democratic socialist toppled former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a contentious fight for the future of New York City — and possibly the direction of the Democratic Party.
Mamdani, the 34-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from Queens, triggered a political earthquake when he declared victory in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary in June, pulling an upset over a former governor who was widely expected to win the party's nomination.
He has since been catapulted onto the national stage, teaming up with progressive power duo Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to rally New York City voters for his affordability agenda, which includes ambitious campaign promises like rent freezes, fast and free buses, city-run grocery stores and free childcare.
It's a race that President Donald Trump himself has been watching closely, labeling Mamdani a "100% Communist Lunatic" and "My little communist" — monikers Mamdani has rejected. On the eve of Election Day, Trump endorsed Cuomo and floated cutting federal funds to New York City if Mamdani won.
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after seeing what NYC has became in the last decade I am still a little shocked.
We will see if he wins a majority. A plurality is not a mandate.
Wonder how U-haul rentals are doing in NY these days..../s
Hard to believe.We have someone who’s openly socialist, and openly Muslim, being elected. Yet this is where we are.
Cool. Who here is stunned?
Why?
Denial.
I’ve watched how stupid NY is.
It wasn’t unexpected by me.
not me
Democrats use that argument against Trump
A win is a win, there's no such thing as a winning a mandate, especially to the Libs.
Let it burn.
Over the last 60 years NYS has lost almost half its House seats.
People have been escaping from New York for generations.
Good news!
The mask is finally off and, maybe now, Freepers can stop referring to the American Communist Party as the “Democrat Party”...
I’m not surprised at all- i live in this third world craphole state known as NY, though not in NYChitty...the people here are just as stupid as you would expect democrats to be, and the residents of NYChitty are even dumber...
They had two terms of deblasio and voted for someone even worse....there was a year and a half trial run of hochul as governor after cuomo resigned in which she proved how worthless she is- yet they still elected her over a Jewish guy....
Then there’s cuomo and sliwa- you could scrape garbage off the bottom of your shoe and it would be a better candidate then either of those two...
I stated all along mamdani was going to win- not because he ran a good campaign or all the other BS the media was feeding- but simply because the residents of NYChitty are dumber than dirt and do as they are told...
NY imported their voters and drove off the natives.
We can’t win without Trump on the ballot and they win campaigning against Trump.
RIP NYC.
NY will be the staging area for a new Communist front.
I’m not this is what the commie party has become
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