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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Yes, I’ve heard. Thanks for the news!
A win for the people! Cuomo’s campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani’s. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
$56 million is a lot to us to plebs. However, to billionaries that’s pocket change.
According to https://www.news18.com/world/billionaires-who-spent-a-fortune-to-keep-zohran-mamdani-from-becoming-nyc-mayor-ws-dkl-9685336.html. The total spent by billionaires was $8.6 million. That’s couch cushion money to a billionaire. A billionaire wouldn’t even notice the money gone.
If anything it shows how cheap it is for billionaires to buy politicans. Billionaries are throwing pocket change at politcians going “Dance for us”.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?
Because it’s actually worked. The wealthy have become outrageously more wealthy in the last several decades because of their interference in elections.
Mamdani is a setback for their plans, but honestly 56 million dollars is effectively nothing compared to the money the elite, donor-class holds and uses to influence society. The only way we topple their stranglehold is to have more “Mamdani Events” in every major city and state while we still have democracy and can launch grass-roots elections to remove corruption and money from politics.
56 million dollars is pocket change for a single billionaire. It’s less than that for a multitude of billionaires.
Truth is that this sort of thing has worked out for them before. Trump would not be in office right now if he wasn’t bankrolled by Musk and Thiel. There were reports in early 2024 that the GOP was basically broke.
A few million to a campaign can be converted into billions of tax benefits. Just think of how much they got out of the Trump tax credits from the first term. Pile on top of that cases where they get sweet government contracts (like Palantir). It’s all a direct shift of money from the working class and into capitalists with the government as an intermediary.
Which is to say that, yes, it is good investment for them. They can afford to miss a few sometimes. Generally, they play the game to win more than they lose. If you win every time, it’s actually an Enron-style red flag.
The Empire will strike back folks. Brace yourselves and don’t self-congratulate too much, the real fight starts now. Good luck, American friends!
The moment anyone so much as an atom left of center is elected, all the forces and money of the nations ruling class bears down on them to prevent even a baby step of progress.
If anyone wants to see it in action, check out what happened with the Democratic Socialists in Nevada. They were kneecapped on the way in by liberal Democrats who stole party funds to put towards their reelection. And the news syndication there all together slandered the dem socialists till public opinion got them all out.
I would like to look into this. Do you have a name?
Gotchu biggest one person outed was Judith Whitmer and when she came in, the entire Nevada Democratic Party resigned and took party funds with them because she was a democratic socialist.
Yeah but they used sub rate contractors and left holes in sensitive areas.
“It’ll be fine!”
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Pretty sure that’s what the Natives WOULD HAVE (but didn’t) say when we stole their land and tried to make them all Christians but okay! 🙄
America has NO official religion, hence the 1st damn amendment nor has an official language either.
Crawl back into the hole or mom’s basement you currently occupy! You win most ignorant comment, your prize is a damn US history book!
Great, another racist in the comments
I see you read on about a 3rd grade level
I started the day with the news that Dick Cheney is dead. Now I’m ending it with news that Zohran Mamdani is mayor. It’s been the best day in a long, long time.
And California passed prop 50!
This will potentially negate Texas’s gerrymandering attempts as thiswill gain up to five house seats for the democrats, and Texas’s bullshit (which required NO vote) also gains up to five seats.
Get fucked, Texas. Fuck you. Good on you, New York. Fuck Trump.
And California passed prop 50!
Wooooooooo!🍾
I can only get so erect.
Ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you.
So happy to see a clean sweep on EVERY major election across the country for dems and freedom. We cannot take the foot of the gas, the white house is currently working HARD to find ways to take away Mamdani’s win and hurt New Yorkers because they voted against the king.
We need to maintain the pressure.
Whatever happens, everything he does, whether objectively good or bad is going to be both, praised and criticized. there will be sensationlist headlines and lies for both sides, and it’ll force us to dig deeper every time to find out the real truth. Conclusions will be made about his decisions before any results are even seen, do dont be quick to judge. I think we will need to really wait before we see how his policies really affect everything… thats all to say, god bless mamdani and his decision making ability, and bless those around him supporting him. Amen
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!
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.
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.
Wow who would’ve thought that listening to voters’ concerns about the economy, acknowledging their fears, and promising real change to address the most important issues facing them would be a viable way to win elections!
So you’re saying Democrats need to move politically to the right and promote the status quo, to appeal more to centrist voters?
Guess how Dems won in Virginia…
Stop being so fucking simplistic. It’s a huge country and individual approaches need to be geared to what will best work in specific areas.
Feel like your response to my, admittedly facetious, comment is overly aggressive. Obviously tactics need to be geared towards the voters in a given area/election, but the original joke I responded to is that this seems like an obvious tactic that is not utilised nearly enough, and I agree with and was building on that.
Obviously tactics need to be geared towards the voters in a given area/election
Sadly, I don’t think that’s very obvious to many people around these parts. It’s full of uncompromising ideologues, the sort that put us in this mess in the first place.
I’m not downplaying Mamdani’s win. They will surely downplay the victory in Virginia.
I’m being heavily downvoted for making an objectively sensible statement based on the available evidence. We need to STOP dividing the party.
I’m being heavily downvoted for making an objectively sensible statement based on the available evidence. We need to STOP dividing the party.
No, you’re being rude and antagonistic to your supposed allies.
And you’re the one here dividing them. People are happy someone won the election, and saying this helps future elections, and you seem offended people are happy about this.
I might hazard to guess that some of the down votes are because of the aggressive tone you took, it doesn’t exactly invite a friendly discussion. I appreciate that politics are a charged subject at the best of times, but I think the anger needs to be channelled more effectively, maybe now more than ever. Which is to say that I fully agree with your statement about needing to avoid division.
No, it the content. People in here will downplay VA when both are important wins. I don’t take this cutthroat view, I’m happy to get wins where we can. I’m tire of people here refusing to acknowledge that more than their tactic can work.
Nope, not everyone downvoted because of the content. I enjoy down voting people who sound like assholes. And you fit the bill.
I expect people to downvote me when I talk like an asshole too. Which probably happens more often than I’d like to internalize.
Hard disagree, I’ve not seen a single person disagreeing with your points, only with the way you’ve raised them. Nor have I seen anyone express displeasure about the VA results, despite you talking about how ‘they’ are downplaying it.
In the interest of not stoking more argument, I would urge you to take a moment to read and parse the responses you’ve got here, and see if they natch up with what you think people are saying to you.
AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.
Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it’s time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.
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
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.
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.
Kinda expected. He was the only good option
This is what happens when you have rank choice voting. A democracy where progressive win.
NYC has rank choice??
Anyone know if Cuomo would have won without ranked choice? That’s possible to tell right, by just counting up first picks?
Mamdani also won a plurality of the total votes so even by FPTP standards Mamdani won.
I 100% agree though that having a Ranked Choice style ballot opened up the door for someone like Mamdani though and would do the same for other progressives.
My country’s (very politically aligned) public news station described Mamdani as “communist” and “anti-Semitic”.
I am always a bit disgusted by Italian public service news station, this one was particularly telling at how biased it can be.
Is he not a Communist? :(
Americans don’t even know what that is, they think halloween is communism.
No. Democratic socialism is a philosophy that believes in democracy first, socialism second.
Democratic socialists believe in social programs within capitalism, they do not work against capitalism in any meaningful way.
the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization Zohran is apart of, is a big tent left organization that Includes everyone from reformist socialists to Marxist Leninists, to Anarchists and Maoists.
TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just “extremely targeted attacks against terrorists”
It’s so extremely targeted that it kills kids before they can become terrorist… /s
Pre-targeted strikes
I think you dropped a letter
Pre-K-targeted strikes
The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was “I hope you re ready for another 9-11” because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
Or just jail them even when quoting their supreme pedo leader.
(Probably not the best source link but a quick search will surely find more)
