{"id":29198,"date":"2025-11-05T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:42:16","slug":"nyc-mayoral-election-trumps-foe-zohran-mamdani-wins-high-stake-battle-becomes-first-muslim-mayor-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/29198\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC mayoral election: Trump’s foe Zohran Mamdani wins high-stake battle; becomes first Muslim mayor of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NYC US President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s political foe Zohran Mamdani<\/a> on Tuesday won the New York City mayoral election, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa.34-year-old Mamdani will be New York City’s youngest and first Muslim mayor. He will replace Mayor Eric Adams, who dropped his re-election bid in September but remained on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u2018JUST IGNORE HIM!\u2019: Zohran Mamdani \u2018HUMILIATES\u2019 Trump As He Casts Ballot In NYC Mayoral Election<\/p>\n

A state assembly member from Queens, Mamdani had entered the contest a year ago as little more than a protest candidate with a thin r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and virtually no citywide profile.Turnout surged past 2 million voters, the highest level of participation in one of the city’s mayoral elections since 1969.Meanwhile, Trump shrugged off Mamdani’s victory claiming that US government shutdown was one of the reasons why Republicans lost the polls.Citing pollsters, Trump said ,”Trump wasn\u2019t on the ballot, and shutdown, were the two reasons that Republicans lost elections tonight.”Trump vs Mamdani The municipal election turned into a direct fight between Trump and Mamdani. Trump has repeatedly referred to Mamdani as a \u201cCommunist lunatic\u201d and a \u201cdisaster waiting to happen.\u201d Mamdani, for his part, told The Good Liars in a recent interview that he would \u201cwork with the president for the sake of New Yorkers\u201d but \u201cnot be cowed.\u201d \u201cIf you want to make life more difficult for New Yorkers,\u201d he said, \u201cthen I\u2019ll be there to fight you.\u201dTrump also urged voters to back Cuomo to block Mamdani\u2019s victory. \u201cWhether you personally like Andrew Cuomo or not, you really have no choice,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cYou must vote for him, and hope he does a fantastic job.\u201d He warned that if Mamdani wins, federal funds to New York could be at risk.Trump also said that he will cut federal funding to New York if Mamdani wins the election. He also endorsed former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo for the top city post.”\".\"If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!” Trump wrote in a post.New York City, spanning Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island \u2014 is home to over 8 million people and stands as one of the world\u2019s most influential urban centres. Its cultural and economic reach extends far beyond the United States, making it a global capital of finance, technology, and the arts.The mayor\u2019s role is therefore of immense importance. With an annual budget of around $116 billion, the mayor oversees services from policing to education in a city visited by 65 million people a year. The position carries both domestic and global weight, with previous mayors using it as a platform for presidential ambitions.The city also leads in artificial intelligence, hosting over 2,000 AI startups and a skilled workforce of 40,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump‘s political foe Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday won the New York City mayoral election, defeating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,153,18094,9,8762,11,10,49,51,50,82],"class_list":["post-29198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-muslim-mayor-of-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-mayor-election","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}