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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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
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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.
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.
Hold up, vice president headshots died? Howd I miss that?
So few people cared about him that nobodys talking about it.
Except it’s been talked about everywhere all day. And I’m not even American.
Billionaire will = thwarted
Billionaire funding = wasted
We have a long slog ahead of us. But today was a good day.
CRY! CRY! CRY!
SPREAD IT! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE!
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
No, people are happy we won THIS election, and so am I. I’m also happy we won in VA. Are you? Or do you deny that the centrist approach can ever work?
All the “establishment Dems” bullshit is how we have Trump again.
I’m also happy we won in VA. Are you?
Probably. I didn’t pay attention to VA, just my state ballot and NYC.
All the “establishment Dems” bullshit is how we have Trump again.
Correct, they lost to the biggest moron twice.
Good luck New York…the apple is rotten
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.
