Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo conceded New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani as the 33-year old member of the state Assembly had a significant lead in the race Tuesday night.
Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.
Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist member of the state Assembly, started to pull ahead with more than an estimated 80% of ballots counted.
Oh this news made me smile. Let’s go NYC!
Watch that rat fuck run as independent to split the vote.
He is. It’s confirmed
This’ll just ensure a republican win, will it not?
Not necessarily. NYC is left-leaning enough that Republicans are firmly in the minority, and also you have Cuomo, Adams and the Republican nominee splitting the asshole vote.
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Depending on if NY elections are closed or open.
Closed? Not if the same people that voted today vote again.
Open. Likely Republicans will vote across the isle to stick it to the “radical socialist” and vote for Cuomo
“Cuomo is a good strong family, true New Yorkers. They have a bridge, don’t they?”
They can tappan zees nuts.
I mean, yay, but…
an estimated 80% of ballots counted.
That’s just the first round, right? Does he not understand how RCV works? Unless his team already knows who everyone’s second and third choices are, it’s not remotely over yet. What am I missing?
He saw the writing on the wall and decided to make a strategic exit. A definitive defeat now would permanently end his career as a politician, but by conceding he leaves the door open to possible future efforts like a presidential bid.
A definitive defeat now would permanently end his career as a politician
Based on the results reported that’s already in the bag. There’s no doubt he can’t govern with what his current support looks like.
He’s not going to avoid the definitive defeat, the votes are still going to be counter, he’s just not holding out to the bitter end refusing to recognize reality. That might help make the final tally a less interesting news story.
There were a lot of “Don’t rank cuomo” chants and fliers around the city. That’s not data, but I wouldn’t be surprised if few people had him as lower ranked choices.
He must have had polling or results that showed he wasn’t picked high enough on enough ballots to win
From https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/mayoral-election-first-round-results-cuomo-mamdani/:
In this ranked-choice primary election, Lander cross-endorsed Mamdani as his number-two pick, meaning that many voters who selected Lander are likely to send additional votes to Mamdani in the final tally.
So I’m guessing Cuomo didn’t think round two was going to do him any favors.
Cuomo was projected to be ahead after the first round. The election was going to be a question of whether or not Mamdani’s certain gains in subsequent rounds would be enough to catch up. Mamdani being so far ahead after the first round meant Cuomo was done.
A historically massive over performance of the polls and how the candidate (Lander) who is third on the first round is also a progressive
Few polls had Zohran winning. Even the polling that had Zohran winning had him losing the first round vote by a fair amount and only flipping to win in the 7th round. No polling had him winning the 1st round. He’s just won the first round by like 7% of the vote. He’s not far from 50% of the vote outright on round one
We won’t have the official results from the later ranked choice rounds until July 1st, but just ~60% of Lander’s #2 votes alone would push him above 50% even if all candidates below Lander went 100% Cuomo for #2. Lander cross endorsed Zohran and told his supporters to rank Zohran #2
get owned, dipshit
I’m honestly surprised Mamdani is still alive in the US, given his name.
It’s like hearing about a mayor in a town in Nazi Germany named Abram Mankowitz.
NYC is easily the most diverse and integrated major city in the country. That kind of rhetoric doesn’t apply to the majority of NYC.
Democrats need to be unapologetic in their stances to critics on both sides.
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How long util he gets couped by the CIA?
They’re already pre-announcing the Reichstag Fire they’re about to stage.
(I’m assuming it will be executed with the full and enthusiastic cooperation of the nypd)
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Guessing there will be a new appointment announced soon
Some good news for the week.
How long before he gets disappeared by ICE?
It’s not out of the realm of possibility, Mamdani was born in Uganda and was naturalized in 2018. If Trump really wants to test his ability to do whatever the fuck he wants, he can try to denaturalize Mamdani for some bullshit reason (even though thats not really a thing) and order him to be sent to CECOT.
Sshhh you might give them ideas
Like others have said, nothing we say or don’t say will change what ideas they get. But calling it out makes them at least reconsider being so transparent.
There is nothing any of us can come up with that Stephen Miller hasn’t dreamed up already.
(And I mean that literally, his sleep is filled with nocturnal emissions generated by imagining he is forcefully deporting people with too much melanin).
This is exactly what I was going to say. Never underestimate how low a Nazi is willing to go, or how creative he can be in getting there.
Not what I was thinking. Four thugs bust into his house at 3am, stuff him in a van, and he is never seen again.
But your way is more likely.
No, it will end up your way, but to keep the brown natural-born citizens who voted for him from realizing he will go after them next, he at least needs to pretend to denaturalize him, even if that’s not a thing he can do.
Expect a social media post something like “I, Donakd Trmup, hereby declare that your citizenship application was deficient, and you’re gone!”
(Haha, it took effort to write that, my spell check was having fits. And maybe it needs to be in ALL CAPS to be more authentic)
but to keep the brown natural-born citizens who voted for him from realizing
Um, what? He has better support from wealthy whites than from racial minorities.
Plenty of brown natural-born citizens voted for Trump, under the theory that they will be considered one of the “good ones”…
That group is infuriating. The worst are the ones that drag Democratic primaries to the right, then vote Republican anyways.
Yes, but the white people who voted for him aren’t going to care about him deporting people for being brown. The brown people who voted for him might, if he doesn’t give at least the barest of excuse
You know? Mebbe 60/40?
Maybe he gets shot in his home like they did Hortman. Maybe just quietly goes to gitmo?
On one hand you have spectacle, on the other hand you have fear. They’re pretty fond of both.
LET’S FUCKING GO!
As non american I just discovered Mamdani and he seems like a legit dude who cares and has the energy to match. Wishing luck to New York friends here!
Someone is going to run as an independent in the general election. I really hope they aren’t able to rat fuck this win.
Honestly, Cuomo and Adams have the same target demographic: assholes. Everyone else backs Zohran
I hope I am wrong. But I have a fear that the knives are going to come out more so than they have already.
And I am proven correct.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/26/politics/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-november-ballot
I sure hope assholes don’t have a large voter turnout in [checks notes] New York City!??
If this election was held in 2023, you have to wonder if the outcome would have been wildly different.
For once, an encouraging sign for sanity and common sense.
Yeah, that’s what we all thought when Biden won.
I called the 2024 election when Biden won in 2020. He was a shitty corporate centrist candidate who was never going to address our deep structural inequality, and so frustrated uneducated people voted for change in 2024. Obama won 2008 because people wanted “Change”. Trump won 2016 to drain the swamp. We’re all so sick of this crony corporate bullshit.
Socialists or we lose. It should’ve been obvious all along that the “centrists” and “Libertarians” are just embarrassed Republicans. America has been sick and tired of corporations overtly ruling for decades and moderates don’t want to own that.
Voters weren’t scared of a dictatorship on day one by a guy quoting Hitler. And at this point, they aren’t scared of socialism, not anymore. The only way we win elections is by supporting candidates who are actually good. Even if a moderate wins this election, they’ll lose us the next election and the good half will be undone. We can only discount the value of the next election iff our candidate will address our broken elections.
TL;DR: Socialists or we lose.
How did the swamp draining go?
That is irrelevant to their point and such blatant deflection makes you look immature.
Oh no, whatever will I do! Lemmy “leftists” will downvote me!
explodicle didn’t mention Trump running on draining the swamp because they believed he would do that or because they support Trump in any way. The point (very clearly) is that even people as uneducated, uninformed, and oblivious as MAGAts can tell that there is something very wrong about how America was being ran, and even they wanted something to change. The fact that Trump lied about draining the swamp and the fact that his intentions was to bring in a sewer to replace it is irrelevant. The fact that they were naive to believe him is irrelevant.
The point is that most of us want actual change, not centrist corporate stooges like Biden and Harris. Whether the people put their faith in the wrong ones to change things in the past is beside the point.
And no, the fact that people showed up in record numbers to vote for Biden in 2020 does not prove this trend is incorrect. At that point Biden was a significant change from Trump in the eyes of many people. He deceived people that he was going to be significantly different in the same way Trump did.
If you are still confused try reading the TL:DR again, “Socialists or we lose.” They were 1000% not expecting Trump to actually drain the swamp.
Judging by our last conversation where you blamed the people who voted for Harris for Trump getting elected, this nuance is going to fly right over your head. The fact that you took a comment calling for people to vote for socialist candidates as someone supporting Trump pretty clearly shows you aren’t the sharpest potato in the sack.
I also know you are a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist, corporate boot-licker, so it’s no surprise people calling for socialist candidates to be elected is against your ideals and you would like to muddy the waters as much as you can, but I think it’s clear to everyone you aren’t arguing in good faith.
You proving me right in 3…2…1…
The butt hurt is real, huh?
lol you really did
Did I?
Biden was right when he said “Nothing will fundamentally change”
The crazy thing is that nothing will change unless someone takes control to stop the corporate-controlled stalemate that runs our society. The far right is awful, and the fact that they are the only ones capable of getting it done is probably the most terrifying notion this country has experienced in my lifetime. It’s just going to be splitting all the wealth with another group of nerdy billionaire assholes and making a worse gov. I just want to wake up and realize it’s a nightmare.
Yeah I didn’t think that. Biden was a bandaid that let the wound fester.
Biden was a hope for a return to a normalcy that ceased to exist in 2015.
