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How just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani’s NYC socialist election surge
Ny Post.com ^ | 6/24/26 | By Carl Campanile, Nicole Rosenthal, Haley Brown, Hannah Fierick and Matt Troutman

Posted on 06/24/2026 7:03:15 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

How just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani’s NYC socialist election surge

Zo’s red wedding was small, but a bloodbath nonetheless.

Just 7% of active voters supported Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical ally Darializa Avila Chevalier over establishment Democrat Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s main event primary, data shows.

The overall low turnout — roughly 17% of Democratic voters citywide — came as Avila Chevalier and two other Mamdani-backed House primary winners captured a mix of high-earning, young, white and black voters, analysts found.

Insiders also credited the Democratic Socialists of America’s formidable field operations for turning out voters who’d back Mamdani’s preferred candidates — setting the stage for a potential party takeover by the DSA.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: commies; electionfraud; fakenews; riggedelection; stolenelection

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
17% turnout

The election should be invalidated if less than 40% turnout.

21 posted on 06/24/2026 8:02:52 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“Our Democracy....”


22 posted on 06/24/2026 8:03:30 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Apathy will be the death of this country.


23 posted on 06/24/2026 8:06:59 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Orosius
Socialism works perfectly for its actual purpose - to secure power permanently for the socialists in charge.

Not quite. Socialism works to concentrate power. Democratic socialism acquires power by selling promises to a majority but by funding the unproductive necessarily goes into debt. That puts the real power into the hands of the lenders.

That's why limousine liberals. The deals are concluded at bond auctions with sales in the form of regulations controlling markets. Of course, that is destructive to wealth production. Hence the spiral of debt.

24 posted on 06/24/2026 8:32:25 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

As I said,....idiots. I guess they don’t realize that in areas such as these, the primary IS the election. The general election is a mere formality. Are there any Republicans running in these districts? If so, what chance do they have of winning? These three can start thinking about how they want to decorate their Washington offices.


25 posted on 06/24/2026 8:35:18 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

ALL SEEKING A FREE STUFF LIFE


26 posted on 06/24/2026 8:43:32 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

Goldman’s gone. It was worth it.


27 posted on 06/24/2026 10:19:14 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Vermont Lt

>> Most people won’t take a side. And most of them will just go along with whomever wins.

That %# was in “politically closed” societies. Like the czar component prior to the red revolution.

It’s worse in the USA... We The People are KING here (remember?) and we often vote in the single digit or low teens percentages — and then, with too little knowledge of who or what we’re voting for.

It’s sad, and we need to fix it if we hope to continue as AMERICA.


28 posted on 06/24/2026 11:22:59 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: TTFlyer; All

Stupid, lazy people LOVE free stuff


29 posted on 06/25/2026 2:20:53 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: broken_clock

There’s a terrible case of The Stupids
in America especially since November 4th, 2008 😲😧🤯


30 posted on 06/25/2026 2:34:04 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

So they didnt get enough free stuff from the last group of leftist losers, so they double down on folks promising more , better free stuff…. Sounds about right. When the young white folks taxes are tripled , they will have learned a good economic lesson.


31 posted on 06/25/2026 3:11:08 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

By any chance young, white and female?


32 posted on 06/25/2026 3:40:02 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

There are few things dumber than a white liberal woman. For that matter, I can’t name one thing dumber. Maybe you can.


33 posted on 06/25/2026 3:51:45 AM PDT by Chgogal (There is no entity more arrogantly ignorant than a White Liberal Woman.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

those who sat out

may have thought a dem is a dem

whats the difference

they are about to find out


34 posted on 06/25/2026 4:28:17 AM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

What happened to the Democrat machine?
Why did “registered” democrat voters, per the dirty voter rolls, not vote in their primary?


35 posted on 06/25/2026 5:05:19 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The teachers are responsible.


36 posted on 06/25/2026 7:10:46 AM PDT by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a BooYou must be able to hit the bullseyemer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Let them piss in their own well. New Yorkers deserve what they get. If you’re an American with solid value’s and you live in New York, why didn’t you vote? If you voted why didn’t you organize others? This is your city and your state to lose. Get busy.


37 posted on 06/25/2026 9:35:09 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (You choose; a world without dogs or a world without muslims.)
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