Posted on 11/04/2025 5:01:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The progressive candidate is on the cusp of a historic mayoral win. And that's adding to unease among Democrats looking for a way back to national power.
On the cusp of electoral victory, New York mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani marched over the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday and arrived at City Hall, where he greeted cheering supporters with a promise.
“We stand on the verge of ushering in a new day for our city,” he said. Their conviction would “be the light that our city and our nation so desperately need.”
Put differently: His importance won’t stop at the shores of the Hudson.
If public polls are accurate, Mamdani will be elected mayor of America’s largest city in Tuesday's election, his national prominence guaranteed. To do that, he will have to beat Andrew Cuomo, the former governor turned mayoral candidate who has tried to paint Mamdani as inexperienced and ineffective. He must also defeat Republican Curtis Sliwa, who has turned heads with his acerbic quips and omnipresent red beret.
For the progressive left, it will be a signal achievement — the highest executive office ever held by a self-identified democratic socialist in the United States. After a decade that began with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) insurgent presidential campaign against Hillary Clinton — continuing with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s improbable 2018 congressional win, the formation of the “Squad” of lefty lawmakers and the pulling of the entire party to the left — Mamdani’s victory would be the capstone of a 10-year ideological project, and give democratic socialists an enormously powerful bully pulpit for the next four years.
Shortly before midnight on the eve of the election, Mamdani offered a glimpse of what could come next. "There are many who say that a democratic socialist vision of governance for New York..."
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Right. Because California Oregon Washington Chicago Detroit Vermont weren’t enough?
Gonna teach them a lesson, huh?
“Never forgive or forget that idiot Sliwa”
Cuomo the slimeball granny and gramps killer would have lost even if Sliwa quit . Any R who votes for Cuomo is beyond redemption .
Chicago is already lost.
MKE is Lost.
“isn’t he a citizen?”
There are ways to denaturalize those who want to do harm to the United States.
There’s not really fallout.
They just make up more lies. They TV talking heads will say it’s not true. There’s no such thing as Antifa and Trump Voters are racists. The young people and their newsfeeds get nothing but Trump is a racist and he’s ruining the country.
Kimmel and ugly Whoopi get fat raises.
Citizen of Uganda and the US-—dual citizenship.
Chooses from day to day which country he owes allegiance to. /S
I almost thought you wrote “denut.” 😁
and a big speaker on wtc 1 to sound the call to prayer
09-11-01 Never forget
New York has forgot
“I never thought I would see that.”
Watch a mob movie and reminisce about the goodle days... NYC has been a very strange place for over a century and a half and... they export!
Tonight’s results, especially Mamdani’s, will end up boosting democrats for 2026. It will cause every radical to be on fire for the mid-terms in getting out their vote.
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