{"id":34625,"date":"2025-11-10T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34625\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:33:07","slug":"colin-murphy-new-yorkers-hopeful-zohran-mamdani-can-bring-about-change-but-not-everyone-is-convinced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34625\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Murphy: New Yorkers hopeful Zohran Mamdani can bring about change, but not everyone is convinced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nMayor-elect is ruffling Republican feathers, and some of his voters are waiting to see if he can deliver on big promises\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zohran Mamdani with his wife Rama Duwaji at an election party last week. Photo: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/US Mamdani (7).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Zohran Mamdani with his wife Rama Duwaji at an election party last week. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I spent the night of Barack \u00adObama\u2019s election, in 2008, in Harlem, at a community \u201cwatch night\u201d in a place called the House of Justice. They had the election count on a big screen with buffet food and a DJ \u00adannouncing the latest results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When the election was called for Obama, people ran out on to the street, shouting and crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor-elect is ruffling Republican feathers, and some of his voters are waiting to see if he can deliver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20550,153,3956,9,11,10,49,51,50,9740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-34625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-colin-murphy","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-instagram","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-tiktok","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625","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=34625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}