The Democratic Socialists of America “army” was quick to take credit for Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s election win — declaring that his victory was a “clear mandate” for their progressive agenda.
“Our movement is at the heart of Zohran’s campaign. This overwhelming victory is a clear mandate for a democratic socialist agenda to make New York City one that people can afford,” Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of DSA’s New York City chapter, blasted out in a post-election statement.
“MAGA billionaires spent millions to prop up Andrew Cuomo and try to stop this movement, but we’ve proved once again: they have money, but we have power.”
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected New York City’s next mayor on Nov. 4, 2025. AP
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Mamdani’s DSA allies pointed to its very own “volunteer army” for helping to push the socialist’s potentially budget-busting agenda.
“Throughout the campaign, Zohran has said that NYC-DSA is his political home,” Gordillo said.
“We’re proud of the NYC-DSA members who helped power his campaign, from developing an optimistic, pro-working class agenda to building a historic field operation that boasted over 100,000 unique volunteers by the time polls closed on election night.”
Mamdani, a proud DSA member whose campaign leaned heavily on far-left, radical policies — including taxing the rich, and promising city-run grocery stores and free buses — will be the Big Apple’s first Muslim, first South Asian and first socialist mayor.
Other radical DSA policies Mamdani touted included defending the decriminalization of prostitution and ending mayoral control over city public schools.
The Democratic Socialists of America “army” was quick to take credit for Mayor-elect Zohram Mamdani’s election win — declaring that his victory was a “clear mandate” for their progressive agenda. @nycDSA/X
He boldly promised to stick to his agenda in his fiery victory speech late Tuesday — as he thanked the downtrodden New Yorkers who buoyed his political campaign.
“New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city that we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that,” he said.
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“We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”
He went on to argue that his vision was essential to uplifting New Yorkers who have otherwise been left behind and unable to make a living in the nation’s largest city.
“This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve rather than a list of excuses for we are too timid to achieve,” he said.
During his campaign, the 34-year-old upstart shied away from publicly embracing some of the more controversial DSA policies; however, unearthed platforms from the fringe party’s New York City chapter, reviewed by The Post, paint an unsettling picture.
The NYC-DSA manifesto — which was scrubbed from its website in late 2021 and discovered by The Post through Internet archives — lays out how the group aims to “dismantle and move beyond” America’s capitalist society and create a “wholesale socialist transformation of our national and global economy.”