New York Elections Video: Mamdani’s Islamic Victory Speech Shocks New Yorkers |‘I Am a Muslim...’

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New York City has elected Zohran Mamdani, a young progressive and the city’s first Muslim mayor, marking a historic shift in its political landscape. In a bold and emotional victory speech, Mamdani declared that there will be “no space for Islamophobia in New York to win an election.”    He celebrated a mandate for change, honored immigrants, rejected bigotry, and emphasized solidarity with marginalized communities — from immigrants to the trans community to Black women affected under Donald Trump’s administration.    Calling New York a beacon during “a moment of political darkness,” Mamdani vowed to build a city rooted in justice, safety, inclusivity, and hope. His rise sends a powerful message nationally as the 2026 U.S. midterms approach.    #ZohranMamdani #NYCMayor #NewYorkElections #MamdaniVictory #NoIslamophobia #NYCPolitics #HistoricWinNYC #NewGenerationNYC #NYCProgressives #ImmigrantVoices #MuslimMayor #NYCElection2025 #PoliticalChangeNYC #NYCNews #NYCUpdates #BreakingNews #USPolitics #2026Midterms #TrumpEraPolitics #StandAgainstHate #InclusiveNYC #DiversityInPolitics #ProgressiveLeadership #NYCImmigrants #UnitedNewYork #FightForJustice #EqualityForAll  ~HT.318~ED.103~

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00:00I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.

00:04I am Muslim.

00:09I am a democratic socialist.

00:16President Trump, when I say this,

00:19to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

00:30When we enter City Hall in 58 days, expectations will be high.

00:37We will meet them.

00:42A great New Yorker once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.

00:49If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme and let us build a shining city for all.

01:00And we must chart a new path, as bold as the one we have already traveled.

01:06After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate.

01:13I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.

01:18I am Muslim.

01:23I am a democratic socialist.

01:25And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.

01:39And yet, if tonight teaches us anything,

01:43it is that convention has held us back.

01:46We have bowed at the altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.

01:54Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in our party.

01:59And too many among us have turned to the right for answers to why they've been left behind.

02:05We will leave mediocrity in our past.

02:10No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great.

02:19Our greatness will be anything but abstract.

02:23It will be felt by every rent-stabilized tenant who wakes up on the first of every month.

02:29Knowing the amount they're going to pay hasn't soared since the month before.

02:38It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for.

02:45And whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of child care didn't send them to Long Island.

02:52It will be felt by the single mother who is safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough

03:01that she doesn't have to rush school drop-off to make it to work on time.

03:07And it will be felt when New Yorkers open their newspapers in the morning

03:13and read headlines of success, not scandal.

03:16Most of all, it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love

03:25finally loves them back.

03:32Together, New York, we're going to freeze the...

03:36Together, New York, we're going to make buses fast and...

03:41Together, New York, we're going to deliver a universal...

03:47Let the words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dreamt together,

03:55become the agenda we deliver together.

04:03New York, this power, it's yours.

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