In a town where all politics is tribal, Mamdani has emerged as a leader of New York’s South Asian community, 600,000 strong, which is now following its Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and Latino predecessors in demanding a seat at the table inside City Hall. That bloc is squarely behind Mamdani and fighting hard for victory in November.

Politics / Running New York City is brutal. But if he wins in November, there are key lessons from past mayors that Mamdani should learn from. Waleed Shahid Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary isn’t just a progressive triumph.

The intellectual son of Uganda has shown that a people-powered, democratic socialist

He is not the Democratic nominee. He is an independent. And unlike even the optimistic forecasts for Zohran Mamdani’s victory last month, Cuomo is not campaigning in the wake of any razor-thin margin or ranked-choice-vote calculus that pushed him into a close second. He really came nowhere close to winning.

At watch parties across the city, the Democratic Socialists of America celebrated Zohran Mamdani—and danced on the grave of Andrew Cuomo’s career.

The poll results emerge as Cuomo relaunched his campaign as an independent following his primary defeat by Mamdani.

Socialist who has support of far-left Democrats like AOC and Bernie Sanders will meet with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Friday