Democrat Zohran Mamdani cruises to victory in the New York City Mayoral election and puts the challenge to the trumpet – Live | Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani sealed a remarkable victory but the real challenge lies ahead

Adam Gabbatt

After a year of promises about freezing rents and making childcare free, Zohran Mamdani Waking up on Wednesday with a daunting task ahead of him: make things come true New York City.

The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist is running New York’s most ambitious Mayoral Campaign in years, drawing hundreds of thousands of supporters with the boldest promises to make the biggest city affordable.

It was a campaign that made Mamdani a global sensation and empowered more New Yorkers than ever before, attracting nearly 100,000 volunteers. Mamdani has reinvigorated the left beyond New York’s borders, encouraging other progressives to run for office in the Democratic Party ahead of next year’s Midterm election.

The flip side, however, is clear: the residents of New York had their hopes set high, and now Mamdani must deliver.

“I think for New Yorkers, this is a little light in what has become so much darkness,” he said. Usamah Andabidirector of progressive communications Justice Democrats organization.

Mamdani’s victory in the New York Mayoral Face Caps was meteoric and unlikely to rise, from an unknown state legislator to one of the most visible democratic figures. He is a figure on the left who is watched internationally.

When the race is called in favor of the night, the excitement in NYC.

It’s a “local victory” that offers a way to “resist and push back” against the political establishment in Washington, Ben Parisi, 40, told AFP.

Consciousness, he added, was a key difference in last year’s victory.

It was an encouraging night for the American left with democratic victories in three key races sending a warning signal to trumpet ahead of the midterms.

The Key Highways:

• Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City with a landslide victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo. With more than 97% of the votes counted, the 34-year-old received more votes – at least 1.03 million – than all the candidates combined, including Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

• Democrats also won two important state governorships Abigail Spanberger Oppression in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey.

• California passed proposition 50, A measure that temporarily changes the state in hopes of countering Republican efforts to do the same in Texas. The new maps help Democrats gain five more seats in the US House of Representatives.

• President Donald Trump Distanced himself from the losses, suggesting on social media that the Republican losses were due to the government shutdown and because his own name was not on the ballot.

• While Mamdani gave his victory speech, the President also posted a heartfelt missive: “And it begins! “.

• Mamdani directly challenged Trump In his victory speech in Brooklyn, he vowed to use his role to fight his divisive politics. “Donald Trump, because I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn off the Volume.“

Good morning – it is the dawn of a new era in New York City where many are celebrating a decisive career victory of the socialist Socranist Zohran Mamdanist.

Mamdani is the first Muslim mayor of the city and at 34, the youngest to serve in more than a century.

In a happy talk of his victory last night, Mamdani took it to say directly, that he knows the Republican president is watching.

“If anyone can show a country betrayed by Donald Trump how to beat him, it’s the city that terrorized him.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York is the light.”

We’ll get to it.