Mamdani said his city would be a “governed as a model for the Democratic Party”, which would favor the needs of the working class and fight Trump.
Zohran Mamdani beats Andrew Cuomo in the primary elections of the mayor of New York
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani challenged political expectations and beat Andrew Cuomo in the mayor of New York mayor.
New York – Zohran MamdaniA member of the 33 -year -old Democratic Socialist State Assembly, upset traditional democratic policy By defying expectations and taking a dominant advance in the primary of the mayor of New York on June 24.
Right after midnight, he spoke to the supporters, saying that he and former governor Andrew Cuomo, the moderate democrat who was the first runner, must bring together the largest city in the country.
“Tonight we made the story,” said Mamdani to a famous crowd in Queens.
With 96% of the votes counted, Mamdani led Cuomo to Cuomo at 44% at 36% during votes in first place.
Less than two hours after the surveys are closed on June 24, Cuomo, 67, said he had already called Mamdani to congratulate him on his historic campaign.
“Tonight is his night,” Cuomo told supporters during his electoral evening. “He deserved it. He won.”
The subsequent instant runoff, in which other supporters of other candidates will be redistributed to Mamdani or Cuomo depending on who they ran down on their ballot, should only increase Mamdani’s advance. Third place, New York controller Brad Lander, had encouraged his voters to classify Mamdani second.
While Mamdani declared the victory, Lander joined him on stage.
“Together, we have shown the policy of the future, a partnership and sincerity,” said Mamdani.
Cuomo had carried out the surveys by two -digit margins for months. The last survey, released the day before the elections, showed that Mamdani was winning It was not by picking up more supporters of Lander in the runoff final.
The breed served as a bell to the largest democratic party, because the coalition seeking to repel Cuomo developed the choice to which the New York Young and progressive vision of the party who lost the White House in November.
Mamdani has established comparisons with his democratic socialist colleagues in America, representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who in 2018 dedicated Joe Crowley, president of the Democratic Caucus of the Chamber, in a district of the Bronx and Queens which rides the headquarters of the Assembly of Mamdani. She approved Mamdani,, Just like Senator Bernie SandersThe progressive icon independent of Vermont.
On the other hand, traditional heavy goods vehicles supported Cuomo. Nationally, they included former president Bill Clinton and representative Jim Clyburn, who relaunched the former president Joe BidenCampaign 2020. And New York’s political establishment, such as representative Adriano Espailt and the president of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, Rodneyse Bichotte-Hermelyn, also argued Cuomo.
‘He gave us something how to believe’
Mamdani has proven to be young voters A platform focused on the fight against affordability in the largest American city. Cuomo sought to rely on decades of experience in government as a bulwark against the president Donald TrumpThe attacks of his hometown. The voters gave Mamdani a chance to change their notoriously expensive hometown.
“With a vision of a city that all New Yorkers could afford, we won,” said Mamdani.
Mamdani said his city would be a “governed as a model for the Democratic Party”, which would favor the needs of the working class and fight Trump.
Representative Nydia Velazquez, a left -wing democrat who represents a Brooklyn -based district, said Mamdani had won with a simple affordability for all.
“He gave us something to believe,” said Velazquez during his electoral evening. She said her campaign threatens billionaires in power.
“But here is the thing: the city has changed,” said Velazquez. “Zohran knew it.”
If it were elected, Mamdani, born in Uganda and of Indian origin, would become the first American Muslim and Asian mayor in New York and his younger mayor of a century.
It would represent a striking ideological gap compared to the outgoing mayor Eric Adams, a conservative and former republican democrat who has become more and more friendly with Trump since he was charged for corruption by the Ministry of Justice under former President Joe Biden. (The department dropped the charges after Trump took up his dutiesSaying that the case would hamper Adams’ ability to cooperate with the federal immigration application.)
Cuomo led by large margins throughout the primary, but the survey has shrunk in the days preceding the elections. A Super CAP has partially funded by former mayor Mike Bloomberg and several main donors of Trump paid $ 24 million against Mamdani, trying to paint him as radical and anti -Semitic.
Mamdani now has an advantage as a democratic candidate for the mayor in a massively democratic city, in which many feel besieged by Aggressive repression against undocumented immigrantsher Assault at Columbia Universityand the cuts offered at Social protection programs.
However, the race to come in November represents a more fractured moderate democratic policy than that previously.
But he still faces opponents in November, including the republican challenger Curtis Sliwa, a conservative talk show animator and a longtime local activist. Adams presents itself for a re -election as an independent, and Cuomo can also do it.
Mamdani opponents will probably continue to attack him for his opinions on Israel, who have aroused criticism from certain Jewish groups, and his relative inexperience as the legislator of the third term with a very modest registration of legislative realization.
Mamdani carried out an informed campaign of social media which presented viral videos, like him, speaking to voters of the working class of the Bronx and Queens who voted for Trump on questions concerning the cost of living. Mamdani campaigned on the promises to freeze the rent in stabilized rent apartments – he took a winter step in the Atlantic Ocean to make the lyophilized in a video – make buses free and provide universal daycare. These proposals called on a city of tenants mainly, many of whom have trouble staying in Gotham.
But he also launched a heavy campaign on a large solicitation and a door through the five arrondissements. The first evening of summer, Mamdani traveled the entire island of Manhattan, which extends over around 13 miles, to encourage people to go out in the middle of early voting.
While Cuomo enjoyed great familiarity and a certain loyalty, he was also a vulnerable favorite due to charges of sexual harassment, hiding place of the death of Covid-19 and intimidation in the State Capitol as governor, which contributed to his resignation in 2021.
“We are done with him,” said Lander, a progressive candidate who campaigned alongside Mamdani, with his supporters. “Andrew Cuomo is in the past. It is not the present or the future of New York. “
The classified voting system of the city requires candidates to exceed 50% of votes in the first round to win. The Cuomo campaign apparently saw that it would not obtain the votes of the second or third round of the other candidates who could put it above the edge against Mamdani.
However, the votes will be recorded in next week, because the system eliminates the lowest voting candidates and redistributes their subsequent votes to the remaining candidates. Given the coalition, it is unlikely that votes promote Cuomo, or at least he thought.
After the counts, the race continues until November.
Mamdani said his campaign had renewed faith in democracy. Voters, he said, can feel helpless in the face of the government’s confusion and weakness and desperately sacrifice their freedoms on basic needs.
“We have given our city permission to believe again,” he said.