{"id":30494,"date":"2025-11-06T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30494\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:48:26","slug":"zohran-mamdani-elected-mayor-of-new-york-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30494\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Elected Mayor Of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATED with latest: Zohran Mamdani<\/a> was projected to be elected the next mayor of New York on Tuesday, easily defeating challengers Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa in one of the most contentious races in recent memory in the city.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to supporters in Brooklyn, Mamdani at first quoted Eugene Debs before telling the crowd, \u201cNew York tonight, you have delivered a mandate for change, a mandate for a new kind of politics, a mandate for a city we can afford, and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani, a Democratic socialist, had drawn heavy opposition over assertions that his plans would send companies and high-income earners fleeing the city. But Mamdani, a political unknown when he entered the race, waged a next-generation campaign across media platforms with a unrelenting focus on affordability.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his speech, Mamdani pledged to deliver the \u201cmost ambitious\u201d agenda focus on affordability since Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, with a program of rent stabilization, free bus service and universal child care.<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Donald Trump endorsed Cuomo late in the race, calling Mamdani a communist and threatening to withhold federal funds from the city. Mamdani, though, capitalized on Trump\u2019s support for Cuomo, citing it as proof that the former New York governor would be \u201cthe puppet that they want right here in New York City<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his victory speech, Mamdani vowed to take on the president.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump, it\u2019s how we stop the next one. So Donald Trump, since I know you are watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was unclear if Trump was watching, but during Mamdani\u2019s speech he posted on Truth Social, \u201c\u2026AND SO IT BEGINS!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani tried to moderate his positions in the waning weeks of the campaign, appearing on Fox News and apologizing to police officers for once labeling the NYPD as racist, wicked and corrupt. He also said that he would retain the New York police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani, a Muslim, has faced questions throughout the campaign for his past comments on Gaza and Israel. When Fox News\u2019 Martha MacCallum pressed him on Gaza, he tried to shift the topic back to affordability.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut you won\u2019t say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza?\u201d asked MacCallum.<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani responded: \u201cI don\u2019t really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel, beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law. And that applies to Hamas, that applies to the Israeli military, applies to anyone you could ask me about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani\u2019s election likely will be used by Republicans to claim that the Democratic party has shifted leftward, putting the onus on the 34-year-old new mayor to show that he can implement a well-run and efficient municipal government. Just minutes after the race was called, the National Republican Campaign Committee, positioning itself for next year\u2019s midterms, issued a statement saying that the Democratic party \u201chas surrendered to radical socialist Zohran Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Fox News, Sean Hannity announced the network\u2019s call of the race for Mamdani saying, \u201cNot really a surprise. I don\u2019t know why people are waking up in the last two and a half weeks. I think they should have woke up after the primary where he handily defeated Andrew Cuomo.\u201d He blamed Cuomo for running a \u201clackluster\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

\n\tHannity said that \u201cmy phone is blowing up\u201d from friends who are \u201cdepressed and scared\u201d over Mamdani\u2019s win. <\/p>\n

\n\tNewsNation, relying on data from Decision Desk HQ, was the first to call races across the board. After Mamdani was projected the winner, anchor Chris Cuomo said of his brother\u2019s defeat, \u201cOf course, I wanted my brother to win. I believe in my brother. I think he\u2019s a tremendous operator within government, but he\u2019s not what Democrats want right now in their party, and Democrats win in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED with latest: Zohran Mamdani was projected to be elected the next mayor of New York on Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13700,17397,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-30494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-2025-elections","9":"tag-electionline","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494","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=30494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}