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.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of elitists suddenly cried out in terror and suddenly clutched their pearls.
Such a nice sound.
NY billionaires after getting home from their Gatsby weekend and hearing the news
This is what I’d love to see sent to every butt-mad dipshit that is queening out over Mamdani, and acting like he is the second coming of Karl Marx, FFS. 🤣
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?
Nice job NYC!
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.
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I expect people to vote based on agreement or disagreement. And I’m not going coddle anybody, it IS fucking simplistic and it hurts the causes they supposedly dearly support.
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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.
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.
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.
none of mamdanis campaign catered to right wing ideas.
No, the comment I replied to suggested acknowledging and addressing voters’ concerns, I sarcastically suggested the opposite.
Yeah, I read it as like:
“Huh, building our homes out of heavier, tougher bricks is a great way to prevent our houses from burning down.”
“Ah, I see! So we should build our houses out of twice as much wood!”
Kinda related to the trope “comically missing the point”, which, as you say, was the intent.
The unfortunate trouble with written communication, where you can’t pick up on tone as easily. I’m not a fan of using /s, as I think it takes away from the comment, but I can see how it can be helpful to avoid misunderstandings.
I’m not them but I think there can be a difference in how we appear and what battles we choose vs. what we actually do when in office.
If every time someone brought a Democrat on any show - anywhere - and they just ignored the host and said “who cares, look how bad the fucking economy is”
And that was the only message. Nothing about social issues.
We’d be drowning in votes.
no it’s probably just because he’s young and posts good videos on social media right? /s
Huge fuck you to cheetolini
My only concern is that hes not corrupt/corruptable enough to scratch the backs of and get scratched by the sleezy power brokers in the city (cops, sanitation…). I feel like a lot of people will work to make him fail at the expense of the city. Hoping he can stomp them all out though.
There are already a lot of good people in NYC to reach this point. He can do this.
Here’s the thing. Mamdani’s a good man, the mayor has some levers like rent control, but he doesn’t have the power to fix everything about the city completely alone. He will need every New Yorker who was moved by his campaign to help him accomplish his promises.
They are absolutely going to fight tooth and nail to prevent him from doing things.
But this is the biggest city in the country. It makes so much room for people to embrace a more progressive brand of politics our nation hasn’t seen for decades and decades.
And the inevitable push back on Zohran will further drive home the growing contradictions in our society such that more people wake up.
Zohran will surely deliver some good results for the people of New York and the rest we will weaponize to further drive home the need for mass systemic change from the top to bottom.
I’m still surprised he hasn’t been lynched already based on his name alone.
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
Hell yeah
Good luck New York…the apple is rotten
Fucking lol
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.
Thoughts and prayers to all conservitards in the upstate region
Might I ask, why the fuck are you even on Lemmy?
Edit: Nevermind, your profile let me know you’re just another one page book we’ve all already read a million times. Fucking loser.
Might I ask if you kindly fuck off …now go back to your chair in the corner and be a good cuck…oh yeah
You’re such a fucking cliché.
I’m super curious about voter turnout.
Was already historic high when I checked earlier today. So, record turnout.
Highest since '69. I’ll come back with link.
ETA: https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/record-voters-ballots-cast-mamdani-cuomo-sliwa/
Being progressive increased voter turnout?
What a surprise to anyone who doesn’t have two braincells to rub together!
But I was told by the smug libs that progressives don’t win elections, and that we need to cater to the “former” fascists who voted for Trump!
Also known as the Clinton-Kamala Maneuver.
Love to see that Silwa did in fact split the conservative vote, but Mamdani would’ve won anyway.
There’s just so many tears, we need more bottles to catch them all! Cuomo and his crooked donors alone are just zombie walking with mascara running down their face right now.
As someone who lived post 9/11 and saw what the Muslim community went through, this is wild and super cool
I will forever respect Sliwa for sticking it out. He’s a real one. Maybe Mamdani can make him the head of the parade department.
Lowkey feel bad that he got crushed compared to Cuomo.
Thank him for his unnecessary service, again, in splitting the dickhead vote
Curtis has great “confused but well-meaning Grandpa” vibes.
He was saying Zohran’s name wrong because he couldn’t remember it. Not because he was being an asshole.
He fell for the AI ad but still defended “cultural differences” as normal (and not a negative).
My point is, he’s wrong about a lot, but I’ll give him credit for trying.
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
To be fair, this is a personal 9/11 for every conservative piss baby who lives in an imaginary world where every paranoid delusion they have about Mamdani is real.
They don’t even think of New York City as “real America” in the first place. Connecting this to where 9/11 actually happened doesn’t occur to them.
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)
Is that a threat?
Why do you have conservative acquaintances?
You’re kicking off over an acquaintance?
You shouldn’t exclude people from your circles for different political views.
How are you going to reach them and get some sense back into their boggled minds if you distance yourself only?
Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.
Demonizing people “not like us” is exactly how we got Trump. Not every conservative is a racist monster, most of them are just confused, or heavily gaslit from years of Fox News style propaganda. I’ve personally got a few of my conservative friends and family to see the problems with Donnie Cheeto and openly rebuke his decision making. “Punching someone in the face” for making a poor choice isn’t going to do shit for us when shit gets real, changing their minds will. Not saying everyone on that side of the fence is clear, and I sure as hell hope people complicit with these horrific ice raids etc get locked the fuck up for a long time. Same with all of trumps lap dogs.
Nah, at this point there’s no excuses. If you’re uninformed today, it’s malicious. If you actively support a party of traitors and domestic terrorists, you’re super malicious. All nuance has been strangled and trampled down to mush about 9 years ago.
I don’t want to live in a world where we find others with opposing views as hopeless. Anger and hate only lead to darker places. We need to hold people accountable but we should never let blind rage control our decision making.
I agree with you. But how many times does a friend need to bicycle kick you in the balls before you stop calling them, and possibly call the police?
“if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.”
The “acquaintance” needs a punch in the fucking face and a goodbye.
Thank you.
You do realize that having witty quotes doesnt change anything right? It might be rhetorically effective at face value, but there is no value other than hate at display here.
If hating nazis is wrong, I don’t want to be right
Not every conservative is a MAGA cultist nor a nazi, it’s ok to have friends and acquaintances with different political views and belief systems from yourself. You’re doing the “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” thing.
Not every conservative is a MAGA cultist nor a nazi,
Never said they were.
it’s ok to have friends and acquaintances with different political views and belief systems from yourself
Unless their beliefs say that others are lesser, or wrong, like LGBTQ people shouldn’t exist.
You’re doing the “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” thing.
Really not though, not sure how you think that is the case
Good, because I fucking hate nazis. Do you?
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
This was my comparable train of thought… Giuliana was elected so 9-11 could happen! He is fully responsible no? /s
Did you ask them why they think that would cause it?
That would be because of photos with the Imam Siraj Wahhaj… Who according to conservatives was organizer of the 1993 wtc bombing… but was not indicted or convicted of anything related to it.
Tbh the part about his views in his Wikipedia article doesn’t sound so good
