Andrew Cuomo’s allies shouted that Zohran Mamdani was a socialist. result? Mamdani slipped in the Democratic primary.
Zohran Mamdani participated in the 2025 New York Pride Parade on June 29, 2025.
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According to the City’s No. 1 voting form, 56% of New Yorkers support Democratic nominations for Democratic Socialists to lead the country’s largest city. The results were released on Tuesday, which led to Zohran Mamdani’s 56-44 victory over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who confirmed that Mamdani’s campaign not only subverted the calculus of New York City’s municipal politics, but also worked hard to identify its 2024 National Democratic Party, which ran for the 2024 National Democratic Party.
Mamdani’s grassroots movement has provided the highest turnout for the democratic mayoral primary election since 1989. He received 545,334 votes in the third round of the third-ranked choice voting process and announced: “The Democrats, in a clear voice, have provided a mandate for affordable cities, a command for future politicians, those who oppose rulers, and yet a responsive writer, and yet a hard-working writer, and a ruler of rulers.’’ He also achieved the goal of the Left’s much-solved solution: to expand voters by bringing thousands of new voters, especially young voters, into the polls.
Mamdani and His opponents are definitely aware of where the 33-year-old state legislator comes from.
Two days before the June 24 primary in New York City, Cuomo’s last desperate attempt to scare epartion away from a fierce campaign to support a competitor, who began bidding and recognized with few names and unit numbers of poll numbers. The former governor used the term “S”, warning that the party was “taken over by this left-wing socialist mentality” and complained that his ideological rival wanted to do things like “put all money into education.”
Cuomo’s attack is not just the hail Mary of the arena. During the long course of the campaign for the Democratic nod in New York City, the Cuomo camp and the free-spending political action committees that backed it left zero doubt that, like Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, WEB Du Bois, Paul Robeson, 1963 March on Washington organizers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, and Pledge of Allegiance author Francis Bellamy, Mamdani had embraced a socialist vision for achieving economic and social and racial justice in the United States. Media Media – Especially New York Post– Shows every “severe warning to New Yorkers for the election of socialist mayoral candidates”.
However, Mandani refused to run. He explained before school Bloomberg Podcast: “I’m a democratic socialist, yes. I started calling myself Bernie Sanders after the presidential campaign in 2016, when I finally had a language that describes how I see the world and how I believe the world should be – it’s people with a dignity that everyone needs to live a decent life.” Although Cuomo complained that Mamdani’s plan was “just a fantasy,” Mamdani leaned towards his ambitious platform, offering an expensive plan to tax wealthy and multinational corporations to pay for free buses, affordable housing, more health care, Universal Health, Universal Health, Parenting and, yes, a lot of education.
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Mamdani gave the exclamation mark by welcoming the active support of New York Democratic Socialists, and the recognition of two of the most outstanding democratic socialists in the United States: Sanders, Sanders, I-vermont and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, two of the most outstanding democratic socialists in New York.
By the end of the main campaign, New Yorkers had already known Mamdani and his agenda and had approved it. Yet his critics still believe that in the eyes of New York City voters, attaching a socialist label would somehow disqualify first-time mayoral candidates. They were very misunderstood. The initial election results have not even been completed. Mamdani leads Cuomo (44% to 36% of the former governor), the former governor admitted on election night.
Headlines identified Mamdani as the winner a long time ago, which only increased his number. Map of where Mandani won and how to hit. The congressman carried Brooklyn with a staggering 17 points and maintained a comfortable prospect in Manhattan’s rich Manhattan and Queens. Indeed, Mamdani won so many different communities in the vast city that on election night, he was able to declare: “We won from Harlem to Bay Ridge. We won Port Richmond from Jackson Heights. We won Maspeth from Maspeth.”
That was frightened Posts, Which title is Wednesday morning’s early paper: “New York City SOS: Who will save the city as radical socialist batsman Cuomo in the Dem Mayoral primary?” Fox News and other conservative media answered the call referring to the proposal made by Mamdani to make rent, transport and food more affordable “type fools.” President Trump marked Mandani as “100% Communist madman” in a post-truth social post, and scholars and fact-checks immediately rated it as “error”. (He also questioned Mandani’s citizenship and threatened to arrest him if Mamdani prevented New York from working with the Ice Agency.) D-New York, a Democrat who is consistent with companies such as U.S. Rep. Laura Gillen, made a choice for voters. “I just don’t think New York would elect someone who calls himself a socialist to lead the city, the city that is the epicenter of capitalism’s global epicenter. So, I was very surprised.”
But she shouldn’t be surprised. In the main event, the issue was litigated in debates, television appearances, television commercials and emails. There is media everywhere. However, voters did not dissuade them. They chose a candidate, and he said: “The whole game was about affordability and I ended up doing a sport about the tools that the city actually had to achieve affordability in the wealthiest cities in the world and the wealthiest countries in the world.”
Mamdani defined his democratic socialism in the context of the United States, saying, “Ultimately, the definition of calling myself a democratic is found in King’s discourse decades ago when he said: Democracy or called it democratic socialism, called it democratic socialism, in this country, I have to be in this country, and this is my politician. We are actually the crisis of actors.
Mamdani will seek reelection in November in current Mayor Eric Adams. Republican Curtis Sliwa is running and Cuomo reportedly decided to keep his name on the ballot, although it is unclear whether he will actually run a serious campaign.
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There will undoubtedly be a lot of discussion about socialism in the autumn competition. But New York is very familiar. It was a city that sent Socialist Party leader, labor lawyer Meyer London to Congress in 1910 and 1920s and continued to elect AOC and many Democratic socialist state legislators. It was also a city that repeatedly elected Fiorello La Guardia as mayor in the 1930s and 1940s. Before becoming mayor, La Guardia was a member of the House of Representatives in the United States and once won re-election in Congress for the Socialist Party ticket. As mayor, he often aligns with leftist political projects such as the Old Labor Party of America.
La Guardia accepted these choices in his time, just as Mamdani did today. However, La Guardia was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, defeating the current Democrat during the Great Depression. In his 1937 re-election campaign, he once again defeated the democratic machine. He did this again in 1941. During his mayoral time, one of LaGuardia’s city allies was Milwaukee Mayor Dan Hoan. For much of 1910 to 1960, Hoan led one of the three socialists in Milwaukee for most of his time was considered a model for making the city a reasonable and equitable governance. Indeed, during his 24-year term, time “Milwaukee has become one of the best-run cities in the United States,” the magazine reported.
Hoan did this in the way Mamdani proposed to do it now: as a defender of immigration, a champion of racial justice, a supporter of unions, and an advocate for bold plans to improve the working class situation. He even set up a municipally operated grocery market to lower food prices, as Mandanny proposed in New York City. Like Mamdani today, Hoan is under attack for his ideology. “He counted the city’s bankers, utilities and large real estate owners.” time In the 1936 profile of the socialist mayor of Milwaukee. “Apart from a small socialist sheet, the media has a staunch opposition to him. Republicans and Democrats have almost lost their independence to unite against him. But Daniel Webster Horn remains one of the most favorable civil servants in the United States, and Milwaukee has become the best city in the United States.
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