Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
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Lol there wnk choice!
Yay!
Fuck yeah!
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Yep, some people hate muslims, socialism, stuff like that.
10 bucks says a lot of that was bum-ass
east jerseyStaten island.It’s hilarious as a Canadian, I’ve never been to NY but all the way back to watching shows like Seinfeld and other shows from back in the day based in NY, they all talk about Staten Island like it’s a whole different breed of crazy over there.
Staten Island so crazy that R* didn’t know how to make fun of it in GTA IV and just left it out.
Ay, shut it. Jersey remains solid blue. Everyone thought Jersey was going to be a close race and then it wasn’t.
Read my comment again, bud.
Typical jersey, always gotta be the center of attention. 😂
I’d also wager a number of republicans voted for Cuomo to try and block Mamdani
NYC has rank choice voting, so that doesn’t work
That’s only for the primaries. For this round, you had to pick one.
Only in the primary, not in the general election.
Why the fuck would they do that?!? Is changing that one of his campaign promises?
I don’t know why, but if I had to guess, because it was easier to get the amendment to the city charter passed if they excluded the general election. Once they prove it works maybe it will be easier to expand the scope.
I haven’t heard him mention it, but I bet he would be in favor of it.
Good luck New York…the apple is rotten
Thoughts and prayers to all conservitards in the upstate region
Fucking lol
Lol. Let me guess. New York is going to be the next Portland, right?
Oh wait, it’s 2025. I can literally log into live webcams all over Portland and actually see that it’s totally fine and totally beautiful.
Oh wait, I live on the west coast and go to Portland from time to time and have seen with my own fucking eyes that it’s totally fine and totally beautiful.
There’s no fear like conservative fear.
Might I ask, why the fuck are you even on Lemmy?
Edit: Nevermind, your profile let me know you’re just another one page book we’ve all already read a million times. Fucking loser.
Might I ask if you kindly fuck off …now go back to your chair in the corner and be a good cuck…oh yeah
You’re such a fucking cliché.
Got locked in when that troglodyte Musk tweeted that people should vote for Cuomo.
One can say this was obvious but we take every victory we can get. You can be too sure.
Fuck yes! That’s really good news and that it well needed right now!
“Trump signs executive order that Cuomo actually won and that Dick Cheney is still alive.”
Lol
Trump seems pretty checked out lately, as expected for someone at the very end of the effective human lifespan who already has everything and anything he wants.
I would just love to be a fly on the wall to witness Stephen Miller’s implosion right now. He’s the sack of maggots and feces wrapped in human skin who has been effectively running the country for the last year or so because he has no qualms about taking Trump to the hilt and has earned the old man’s trust that way. He has no power on his own because he’s not liked and can’t capture even a shred of political capital like Trump has, on some level he knows when this whole thing folds he will be completely shut out of politics and may even face prosecution.
Seeing something like Mamdani happen, as well as the blue wave that just crashed over major cities and states yesterday, is a reminder that his clock is ticking and running out faster than he would have liked. Expect to see some wild missteps from the administration over the next several months as Miller goes on an absolute bender and tries to accelerate all his half-baked nazi plans.
Aye, that is the one silver lining of this fascist take-over: Miller et al. have attached themselves to a demagogue who has a looming expiration date, so they are speed-running the creation of the fourth reich. Our best hope is that they’re doing it too quickly to really take root. (And that they can’t find another demagogue to step in when the orange one bites it.)
I’m not particularly worried about any current members of the administration or any prominent figures on the right taking Trump’s place. They have been trying for years now to recapture the bottled-lightning that is Trump’s unique blend of authentic contempt and straightforward dishonesty.
Instead they keep parading JD Vance around, but the guy can’t hold anyone’s attention, he’s boring and talks like a politician even when he’s saying authoritarian bullshit. Trump’s base will wander off, disinterested. Or at least, not be inclined to respond to him the way they did with Trump.
Remember, Jan 6th capitol riots were just Trump “weapon testing” his political capital, showing the party that he had a tight leash and control over his base. Having even a minority constituent base who is loyal to your every word without question, and are armed and loyal voters, is worth more than swing states and policy debates. This is why Trump has been able to walk all over everyone and everything.
I cannot picture that crowd being “tamed” by anyone else. They’re going to fracture into a thousand pieces when Trump dies, and Vance will be a well-funded but useless Lame Duck, unable to make traction in Congress and Senate.
Miller might even prefer the outcome where the regime falls around him. He’s a mediocre man with delusions of adequacy, and he’s not at the very top of the pyramid.
There’s something that tends to happen to men like that in regimes like this. What generally happens is that they are “given the courtesy” of being allowed to shoot themselves in the head after a major fuckup. Which will happen, because he isn’t actually good at anything except yelling at people and acting tough.
The worst the democratic socialists are likely to do to him is a trial and prison time. Even if he’s executed, he’ll at least get a trial.
M-A-M-D-A-N-I-!
You should learn how to pronounce it!
His only miss step the whole campaign was not saying “because you’re going to be saying/hearing it a lot” at the debate.
I thought that was implied?
Yeah, it was implied, but you saw the calculus go through his head and he pulled back. Like I said, basically a perfectly run campaign, just wish he woulda gotten that better sound bite that one time. Cause Cuomo deserves to get dunked on at every opportunity. And as far as I can tell that was the only time Mamdani held back. But those debates were sooo satisfying to watch.
Hell yeah. Hopefully this will contribute momentum to a larger nationwide socialist movement.
Almost as soon as Mamdani won the primary, the DNC chair did a PBS interview talking about the important part was the platform Mamdani ran on…
And Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
The only way we lose, is if people pre-emptively give up on the party and don’t vote in the primary. So there’s going to be a lot of noise trying to convince people not to trust the new party
There’s no “new party”. Democrats won in Virginia by being centrist. Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
But they won. Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right. Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”, but it will be easier to field progressives in the future from Spanberger’s position, than from Winsome’s. And maybe next time, the magical lefty messiah Lisan al Gaib will be running and the choice will be between them vs the centrist democrat, instead of a centrist democrat vs a literal smoothbrained maga dummy.
Now that’s not to say “Vote Blue NMW”
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Not to say there isn’t, because we’ve seen that doing so is how you get people like Trump and voter apathy.
But they won.
I certainly didn’t dispute that. Both won by running races that best appealed the majority of voters in their electoral areas. People here are somehow mad that we got the governorship of Virginia? The confirmation bias is ridiculous.
Because the alternative was a literal maga crazy person who doesn’t think prejudice against LGBT people is discriminatory.
Yeah, welcome to much of America that isn’t NYC, a major urban metropolis. And Mamdani still had decent opposition from a sex offender. Gonna ignore that? If you try, you could downplay his victory as much as hers but why would you? They’re both wins. Winning shouldn’t divide us. Also, it’s bit easier for a Democrat to win the mayoralty of NYC than it is the governorship of purple Virginia.
Now, you can be unhappy that it wasn’t some mystical ultra progressive (that wasn’t even running in the race)… or you can be happy that at least the needle didn’t shift even further right.
I’m happy in either case. All I care about is a pragmatic approach that moves society in the way I most agree with. Allowing Donald Trump to come to power doesn’t qualify.
Not every part of the country is exactly the same.
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
Almost like not every part of the party is exactly the same?
That supports my point, it doesn’t dispute it.
The “new” part is being nonbiased instead of ridiculously biased.
What the fuck does that mean? Non-biased, is that a joke? People, trying to divide the party to help Republicans win, are obviously biased. I on the other hand accept both wins in NYC and Virginia while you accept only NYC.
If you’re confused and something sounds like it doesn’t make sense, ask questions instead of making assumptions
I didn’t express confusion or uncertainty. This is a pathetic argument tactic that intentionally avoids the topic at hand.
Stop trying to divide the party. That’s how you uncompromising ideologues gave us a second Trump presidency.
I think the problem is you don’t understand what the DNC is…
If you chill out and try to have a civil conversation, I can help
You have such a hard-on for Ken, despite the fact that he’s a typical centrist lib who in his own words is happy to continue taking money from “good billionaires”.
I cant wait for the day you realise what he actually is and stop spreading the propaganda.
How about we implement a progressive income tax, no loopholes, instead of fixating on an arbitrary number like fucking dumbasses? How much money CAN one have from which you’d still take money?
Drop the fucking buzzwords. This isn’t a game.
Oh hey it’s this troll again. Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim - What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
Lol, what’s a greater sign of one’s insecurity in their own argument than instantly labeling “troll”. Pathetic.
Please you never answered the last time you made this bogus claim
Is that how language works? One’s own claim requires an answer? I thought answers followed questions. What do you even think is “bogus”. Fucking income tax?
What are these buzzwords you keep imaging.
“Billionaire”. It’s fucking arbitrary and it removes the focus from where it should be. “Centrist lib”, you sound like a Trumper for fuck’s sake.
This has nothing to do with taxation, the issue is money in politics.
Oh and ONLY billionaires can put money in politics? Someone with a hundred million, you wouldn’t have a problem with that? What is your cutoff? A lot of rich people put money in politics precisely so they can get tax breaks. So no, they’re not unrelated. And every time you allow a Republican to come to power over the “centrist lib”, you do the super rich a massive favor.
Please before bothering me any more on this site, take the time to actually read what has been said you’ve now made this ridiculous completely unrelated statement twice now.
More pathetic posturing to obscure your weak argument. That’s all this is. It’s not my fault you’re too goddamn stupid to understand either why they put money in politics nor how you actually help them.
“Billionaire” is a buzzword now? Lol.
Martin only waited till after the primary, because he legit believes a party shouldn’t be biased. But he ran Minnesota for a decade, and under his watch they went from purple to progressive as fuck.
To be correct. Ken Martin hates DSA and socialists. Most of his time in Minnesota was spent purging DSA members from the party. Minnesota went left in spite of him.
A single endorsement doesn’t change a decade of fighting progressive politics.
doesn’t change a decade of fighting progressive politics
It doesn’t make Aslam not a representation of Jesus Christ either, since at this point we’re talking make believe…
Where’s any kind of source about “a decade fighting progressive policies”?
It apparently happened for a fucking decade, so obviously you can quickly gather some big and obvious examples.
Going to be?
There’s already a shit load of that right here on Lemmy.
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We got like 30 months till presidential primaries, and the billionaires are not going to talk about how they lost control of the DNC on the media networks they bought for propaganda…
Ignorance is the natural state, everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn it.
But it’s not gonna be a valid excuse for much longer.
But regardless of people’s opinion of the DNC, Martin is going to keep throwing money back at state parties, which is going to keep translating to wins downballot. And he’s not gonna stop a progressive from getting the presidential nomination.
It’d be nice to also see some midterm primary challenges to incumbent neolibs.
You’ll only have to wait a few months…
But we’re already seeing them drop out, Pelosi and some other guy aren’t seeking re-election.
They know they can’t win a level playing field, and if they try and lose they’ll get less money from corporations in their second career.
They want risk a fair fight, they’ve never had it in them. So a lot are going to Paul Ryan off to the sunset and just let progressives have it, hoping it fails and they can pop back up
there kinda already is kicked off by bernie in 2015, The DSA (Democratic Socialists America) has made AOC and Mamdani big and also a number of less prominent figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America
A-fuckin-men! I hope the dnc also gets their head out of their ass and starts embracing the left side.
NYC and Virginia are proof that different polities require different approaches.
“Proof”
You know how can I tell when I’m right? When this piss poor attempt at a response is all you can offer.
One or two examples of a thing is not “proof” of anything.
OK then, so Mamdani’s win was ALSO meaningless, right? It doesn’t mean anything about a progressive push in the party?
You see how your arguments works both ways? NYC and the state of Virginia are different places. Why are you so upset that Dems won in VA? They wouldn’t have won there running Mamdani’s campaign because the entirety Virginia is the not the municipality of NYC.
OK then, so Mamdani’s win was ALSO meaningless, right?
No.
It doesn’t mean anything about a progressive push in the party?
Didn’t say that either. It’s not proof that the party is getting more progressive. He didn’t exactly earn their full throated endorsement.
You see how your arguments works both ways?
No. My “arguments” was that that one or two examples dont constitute a “proof” about any grander strategy being used.
. Why are you so upset that Dems won in VA?
Oh I see we’re just doing full blown straw men now.
In that case, it’s the same reason you are so upset about some shit that you didn’t say anything about.
They wouldn’t have won there running Mamdani’s campaign
That’s true. Virginians don’t care about free buses in New York. They’d probably have to make the campaign address Virginia.
because the entirety Virginia is the not the municipality of NYC.
Hard truths here in this post.
Fact is, the more progressive candidate won by 15 points. Not sure how this proves anything about what would have happened had an even more progressive candidate run.
The DNC is owned by billionaires, the sort the DNC chair Ken supports and defends their right to play economic kingmaker.
There is zero chance the DNC gets their head out unless a leftist somehow takes over ala Mandani.
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Deranged.
Absolutely pathetic response. You can’t do better than that?
So we somehow made Trump win but also got a Democrat elected? Sound logic.
Yeah, it’s almost like there were separate elections or something.
What a stupid fucking point. Yeah, both are true. 10 million “progressives” handed Trump the presidency in 2024. Now, a much more concentrated group of voters elected a Democrat as mayor pf NYC. There’s no “somehow” mystery about it.
10 million “progressives”
Didn’t give anything to trump. You’re either assuming Harris was entitled to something she never received, or do you actually think Dementia Don convinced a lot of voters to cross the spectrum?
Didn’t give anything to trump.
They gave Trump the country. They gave him a get-out-of-jail free card. Pathetic fucking phonies who don’t even REMOTELY give a fuck about the issues they claim to care so deeply about.
You’re either assuming Harris was entitled to something she never received, or do you actually think Dementia Don convinced a lot of voters to cross the spectrum?
Dementia Don had the same number of voters in 2020. Somehow, those 10 million fucking idiots were able to vote for Biden but Harris “didn’t deserve it”? Maybe you can explain why a convicted felon child rapist deserved it instead. Because if you refused to vote for for her, you helped him come to power. You’re a Trump supporter. Hope you’re fucking proud.
Nice job NYC!
Chaney is dead, Mamdani wins? Good news for the nation as my personal life is shit.
Genuinely uplifting in a way. Thank you to all the NYC voters making a difference. And a big thank you to anyone to visits Chaney’s grave to piss on it.
Tonight, feel good. And tomorrow I hope things get better for you.
Hopefully they do. It’s bad news today personally, the person who’s been harassing my family since January, is now the manager of the place we live in. He’s tried to get us evicted before, and restrict things that other tenats use, and treat worse.
He’s harassed my brother, then me, then my dad. The management did nothing about his documented actions. Or his fistfights he has started and lost both times. Or this, or that. He’s genuinely a bad person.
And the new manager was going to be someone else, but the landlord kicked her out before she even stayed a full month.
The reactions from the right are gonna be hilarious.
Cant wait too see all of those snowflakes reactions
I’m slightly worried seeing how irrational they can be.
I hope NY will be all right, but when they won’t even let some rando criticise their administration without being violent, there’s no way there won’t be a completely over the top response to this.(Invasion of NY by National Guard)
That would be less hilarious.
VOTER FRAUD! There’s NO WAY someone who Campaigned on Helping the Middle Class could BEAT a Sex Offender with Billionaire Sugar Daddies! There’s NO WAY!
I bet Trump is already saying that
How could a guy that was forced to resign as governor fail to get elected as mayor?!?!
Your satire is top notch ;)
Plot twist, he’s legitimately angry, and wearing a red hat.
…no, I’m just joking. Don’t flame him.
Working class, not middle class.
This is very important. Too many people think policies that help the middle class help them, and its like, bitch, you do not own a house. You are less than 3 months worth of paychecks away from being on the street. You are not middle class.
Most people aren’t middle class anymore.
When politicians say middle class, its almost always so they can appeal to rich people while phrasing it as applying to you.
You are working class.
Just about everyone here is working class.
Working class is the median class.
median class
NYT editorial staff in shambles.
Fuck them in particular
End of the world in 30 days!
