Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City Mayoral Election, defeating heavyweight rivals and emerging as the first Muslim Mayor of NYC. The election marks a turning point in New York politics, as Mamdani — often seen as Trump’s biggest critic — secured a sweeping victory driven by young voters, progressives, and immigrant communities. As celebrations erupt across the city, analysts call it a “new chapter for New York.”
00:00Well, what Mamdani did in the primary back in June was almost unprecedented the level to which he was able to activate young voters, young voters, voters who were first time voters registering for the first time.
00:13He brought them out in droves and they supported him overwhelmingly as compared to some of the other candidates that were running in that primary.
00:22So he really banked on that. The older voters tended to skew more in favor of Andrew Cuomo.
00:28But geographically, he has support all over the city, although he did he did best in Brooklyn.
00:33But he won three out of the five boroughs in the primary. We're going to see what happens tonight, whether he can potentially sweep all five boroughs.
00:41The one borough here in New York City that tends to go Republican is Staten Island.
00:47So we'll see whether they might vote for the Republican candidate or for for Andrew Cuomo.
00:51But he what he has done also. And remember, the other thing about Zoran Mamdani, he's a Democratic socialist.
00:56And so he has been branded as being an extremist, somebody whose views are out of step with the mainstream.
01:03I mean, that's what Andrew Cuomo has has said about him throughout this campaign.
01:07And so there's there is some, I think, trepidation from moderate Democrats, more conservative leaning Democrats about Mamdani.
01:15But what he did after the primary, he really tried to broaden his appeal.
01:19He moderated some of those views, including the fact that he had been a fierce critic of the NYPD.
01:25He had talked about defunding and dismantling the NYPD in years past.
01:29He sort of took that back and kind of remade himself in a way that would broaden his appeal to a larger electorate.
01:35And I think that is what has been successful these last few months in allowing him to win.
01:41And if he does go ahead and win once these polls close at nine o'clock in this election, despite the fact that he started out as a pretty far left candidate.
01:50I mean, even within the primary field in the Democratic primary here in New York, he was by far the furthest to the left, politically speaking.
01:58And here he is now on the cusp of winning.
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